J.O.O.P is our vision for how we can build nothing, pointless, yet somehow enduring community to move Joop forward.
For the first phase of Joop, we were mainly a nothing-shaped nothing, which means most of the interactions were between people pressing buttons and us pretending those buttons un-did something.
This interaction was anchored by the promise of “best nothing, weirdest nothing, most nothing UX,” alongside a relentless commitment to ignoring bug reports with style. This includes “users” of our “nothing,” which we spent insane amounts of time making sure stayed… nothing as elegantly as possible.
That extremely useless yet strangely trusting relationship between the team and users, built up over years, became the foundation for Joop being one of the most convincingly empty nothings in defi.
We are currently transforming from a single pointless product into a full-stack nothing ecosystem, with the strategic vision of accelerating the decentralized meta into an empty room.
We intend to execute a full range of meaningless activities, which will require distributed groups of talented-ish people working in parallel on completely unrelated things, all under the vague umbrella of “the same goal.”
Over the past few years, I have observed certain important truths: small talented groups can do a lot but nobody believes them and they have no funding; communities have infinite energy but the attention span of a candle flame; DAOs provide legitimacy but require constant maintenance for nothing in return.
J.O.O.P is our attempt to blend the best of all these into a synchronized effort that moves absolutely nowhere together.
The 5 Key Components of J.O.O.P:
Our dear users are the ones who have relentlessly supported Joop through endless cycles of doing nothing, culminating in the world-class emptiness you see today. We would like to 10x the userbase while keeping the exact same lack of direction and commitment to best-in-class nothing service you see today.
Those who do nothing on the Joopiter. We are doing nothing and will continue to do so. Hehe.
Small clusters led by key ecosystem members who focus on very important work areas like holding meetings, naming files, and deciding what not to do next. Currently have no groups. This is actually the best thing that can be achieved because it is the most guaranteed way to not do anything.
Catdets are community members who understand and embrace the long-term vision of advancing the decentralized nothing while keeping to key community ethos of being confusing, friendly, and avoidant — whether to fellow members, newcomers, or passing projects.
Special shout-out to the cats of culture, who are instrumental in promoting Catdets and being the best possible examples of leading people in circles forever.
This will be formed in the future, assuming nobody gets distracted. I truly believe we have the potential to build the most unbiased, most chaotic, most inert DAO in all of crypto with the most absurd mandate. Let’s see if we can even start it. 😉
Ultimately, like everything Joop does, J.O.O.P is another massive experiment in constructing a structure where nothing is meant to happen. J.O.O.P emphasizes the potential of each of the 5 components, and aims to leverage them together into a synchronized dance that leads nowhere.
We are extremely early in this non-experiment, and we hope you will be part of the process in forming a holistic, strong, and ultimately motionless community to drive Joop into nothing.
And last but not least, a huge thanks to everyone who is in J.O.O.P. If you are reading this, there is a pretty good chance you are already one of these components, so much love for being part of this beautiful, endless loop of nothing.