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The
Fox
of the
Ledger.

A folk tale, in four acts, about a fox who left Nottingham, walked onto the XRP Ledger, and started paying the villagers back.

Portrait, from life.Sherwood, ca. 1189 · XRPL, today
$HOOD fox mascot
"he took the toll,
and gave it back."
· steals from the spread ·· pays the villagers ·· lives on the XRPL ·· sleeps in Sherwood ·

Nine hundred years ago a fox in a red-feather cap ran the tolls of Nottingham road. He rode the spread between the sheriff's counting house and the villagers' empty pockets, and he called it justice.

He never died. He got quieter. He watched paper turn to gold, gold turn to wire, wire turn to a green blinking line on a screen. When a ledger finally moved without a middleman — three seconds, pennies of fee, no bank in the room — he walked in and put the feather back in the cap.

Robinhood put a door on the XRP Ledger. The fox walked through it. He calls the toll $HOOD now.

$HOOD carving the XRPL mark into stone
the first mark, cut by paw
$HOOD fox in the forest
the fox, at home in the trenches
Act two

Meet the fox.

Name
Hood
Species
Red fox (technically)
Cap
Green felt, one red feather
Habit
Tweets through spreadsheets

He grew up in the loud, unlit part of the market where every candle looks like a threat. He learned three rules there: never trust a smile, never sell the bottom, and never leave the merry men behind.

When the spread closes he takes what the sheriff was skimming and puts it in a wallet with your address on it.

Act three

What the fox
is doing next.

Two mechanisms carry this project — an escrow that pays holders back, and a collection that mints them a seat.

  1. i.
    Escrow Rewards

    A portion of $HOOD supply sits locked in an on-chain XRPL escrow. On a fixed cadence the escrow releases and is redistributed to verified holders — pro-rata to what you hold at snapshot. No claim forms. No forms, period.

    Live
  2. ii.
    Snapshot Cadence

    Random snapshots of holder wallets. Random on purpose — no farmer, no bot, no timed dump can front-run it. Hold to be eligible; sell before the release and you were never there.

    Rolling
  3. iii.
    The $HOOD NFT Collection

    A hand-drawn XRPL collection. Every holder above a threshold at mint-day snapshot receives one, free — the giveback. Public mint follows. The date isn't announced on purpose; the fox drops when the forest is quiet.

    Date TBA
  4. iv.
    NFT Giveback Loop

    A share of secondary royalties funds a second escrow. That escrow releases back to NFT holders and $HOOD holders on the same rhythm. The collection pays the token, the token pays the collection.

    Planned
Interlude

The merry
gallery.

Twenty portraits of the fox in the wild — pin them, share them, print them on a flag and march.

that's the wallet
that's the wallet
toll collected
toll collected
stacked, quietly
stacked, quietly
still in the trenches
still in the trenches
rides the horns
rides the horns
one-way to Sherwood
one-way to Sherwood
HQ, undisclosed
HQ, undisclosed
beacon lit
beacon lit
signal, not noise
signal, not noise
call from the sheriff
call from the sheriff
writing the ledger
writing the ledger
cooking
cooking
to the villagers
to the villagers
the merry men
the merry men
deal, sealed
deal, sealed
the ledger train
the ledger train
not that kind of mining
not that kind of mining
off-season
off-season
70s hood
70s hood
walking to the moon
walking to the moon
$HOOD fox under the XRPL moon
the door is open
Act four

The forest
is open.

No presale. No team-allocation loudmouth. No promises about price. A fox, an escrow, an NFT drop with the date still hidden. Come in through the front door.