Do nothing: finding a way out of digital hell

The blockchain industry is a place where everyone is endlessly busy. We watch price action and listing announcements, parse government minutes and analyst forecasts. But how do you know when to stop and step off the digital wheel? In an interview for the new monthly digest FLMonthly the founders of doNONdo. explain why doing nothing can be vital.

FLMonthly: Once, Rabbi Hillel was asked to explain the whole Torah in the time it takes someone to stand on one leg. How would you explain the essence of doNONdo to someone standing on one leg?

doNONdo: Contemplate until you see!

FLMonthly: People have the wildest notions of what meditation is. What is it for you? How did you come to it, and why might it be a solution?

doNONdo: For us, meditation is an innate tool of self-knowledge, and a set of mechanisms for protecting and sustaining a human being’s mental health. In the context of doNONdo, however, we speak first of non‑doing, inaction. It is certainly a meditative practice, but one less encrusted with the clichés of the ill‑informed. Non‑doing can in fact be regarded as the mind’s natural state—a kind of individual paradise here and now. The mind traded it away for shiny shells.

FLMonthly: Are you a spiritual movement or a meme project? Why would a spiritual movement need memes, and memes any deeper meaning? Would you advise the Catholic Church to start issuing Pope‑coins and NFT indulgences?

doNONdo: We are neither. doNONdo is that which does not exist. The play of such dualities as meme‑tokens and spirituality only underscores doNONdo’s unique uncreatedness.

We would rather not get into religion, especially sweeping generalisations. It is a sensitive subject. And doNONdo is not a religion or a cult of any sort. It is something that can unite people regardless of nationality, religious beliefs, and so on. That matters. Maintaining quantum neutrality and respecting others’ beliefs, we have created (or rather, revealed) that which does not exist—for the benefit of all living beings. Why use crypto? Because it was made for this. Read our white paper—we set out in detail who Satoshi really is and what his project is.

Since you asked about the church, we recommend giving up cults. Not only to the Catholic Church, but to all other believers, atheists included. The latter, incidentally, are the most believing people: they believe only in science. And science is the modern cult number two after money—though perhaps something else has slipped in there, tied to Eros and Thanatos.

FLMonthly: How do you become part of doNONdo? Does it come with any obligations?

doNONdo: To become part of doNONdo, just start practising. For formality, you can obtain a token (for example, by joining the Марафоне недеяния)—then your participation will be recorded on the blockchain. That is an important detail, though not required. On 24 February we are holding the official launch in the form of a Referendum. There will be a single point you must agree with to take part. By agreeing, each participant must stop at 12:00 local time and practise non‑doing for at least ten minutes. More is better, of course, but modern humans often live like a hamster running in the wheel of samsara. It is a heavy state of mind. On the same day, every address holding at least 10 dnd10 coins will receive a commemorative NFT that documents the event. Thus it will be a genuine referendum: 1) the act of voting through the practice of non‑doing; 2) documentation on the blockchain via an NFT.

FLMonthly: How do you take part?

doNONdo: Do Nothing at 12:00 on 24 February—and you are in.

FLMonthly: What are your plans for the coming year? How are the asset’s metrics tied to the project’s offline activity?

doNONdo: This year we plan to open‑source more than 100 techniques of non‑doing and meditation, accompanied by explanatory materials. We also ran a pilot teaching schoolchildren non‑doing and meditation in Sri Lanka. We are now preparing to scale. For 2025 we plan to integrate starter programmes into 50 schools in ten countries. The long‑term goal is integration into the education system.

Beyond programmes for working with mind and body, we are preparing technology‑education programmes for the same groups: short courses for schoolchildren where they will acquire basic knowledge of Web3, AI, and so on. The logic is this: first we help people understand how the mind–body system works and provide the tools needed for self‑knowledge and spiritual liberation. Then, through the lens of awareness, we present technologies and provide tools for liberation in the material sense. That is the short version. Of course, there are many plans about which I will tell you Nothing.

FLMonthly: What do you make of the suddenly blossoming market for meme‑coins? How does it appear to a tranquil mind?

doNONdo: One of our participants once said, when we had just begun unpacking our token: “It is like descending into one of the lower worlds and remaining yourself.” It is almost a repetition of the legend of Miao Shan, when she entered one of the hells. But hell quickly turned into paradise—which, of course, did not please hell’s prime minister. In short, memes are hell. The meme‑coin market is a multitude of hells flowing one into another. We came only so that hell would turn into paradise.

FLMonthly: Markets seem driven by two affects: fear and greed. How does that square with deep concentration? And in Web3 everyone is terribly busy—how does such activity not collide with non‑doing?

doNONdo: It does not matter what you focus on. Everything is an illusion. What matters are self‑control and self‑awareness. The digital industry is deeply traumatised, which is why the translation of innovation into the offline world is very slow. Virtual consciousness prefers to develop virtual reality. That, in turn, traps minds in what, in fact, also does not exist—like the thoughts in your head. They merely came from the void, to return to it and arrive again in a new guise.

FLMonthly: One user on X remarked during a fresh market slump: “So, when your memes are down 80%, they don’t seem so funny, do they?” People link an asset’s price to the value of an idea—that is how psychology works. Are you not worried that, in the next storm, people will write all religiosity off as bullshit?

doNONdo: We are not a religious project. Nor are we a crypto project. So all we can offer is a path of liberation. We brought the most precious treasure of all worlds to give it to people. That treasure is Nothing. And we give it for free. Because Dharma is not for sale. Yet many still choose paid gifts that are not treasures and often make people suffer even more. The human being is a most fascinating creature—the crown of all absurdity born in eternal chaos.

FLMonthly: You like to tell stories. Why choose a format that demands time and attention that many people lack?

doNONdo: It is the point of beginning and completion. And it is a way of steering time and, accordingly, a way to create new worlds, realities, illusions. Each story is the point that launches time as a function within the separate reality of the narrative being told.

FLMonthly: Tell one that fits what surrounds us.

doNONdo: Once, a cryptocurrency journalist was walking through the social network X, and towards him came Nothing.