Tambov yoga farmer launched memcoin in support of clean farming: capitalization reached 560 thousand dollars

Source: https://argumenti.ru/society/2025/02/939447

The launch of the coin exceeded all expectations — the maximum capitalization reached more than half a million dollars. Profits from the project will be used to develop agricultural business and grow organic crops without the use of chemicals.

How are cryptocurrency, farming, yoga and active citizenship connected?

At first glance it looks like the generation of random words from AI, but do not rush to conclusions. At the beginning of 2025, the cryptocurrency market experienced a real boom — on the wave of the success of memcoin in honor of Trump and some coins issued in our country, the exchange was replenished with hundreds of new tokens. The attention of the editors was drawn to one of the domestic crypto coins with a very unusual history — the memcoin AUM Yogaferma, presented as Russia’s first token backed by agricultural crops.

The concept of the AUM coin, as well as its security (as a rule, memcoins are created for the sake of hype and have no fundamental value) is a nonsense on the crypto market. As, however, is the very prehistory of the token’s appearance and its semantic load. We personally contacted the developer to find out how memcoin and farming are connected and what the future of such integration is.

— Vyacheslav, you are such a versatile person, judging by the information about you. It is even hard to imagine everything together — a farmer, a yogi, and now also a creator of crypto-coin. Maximum incompatible things. How do you position yourself?

I was born in Moscow, lived and worked here. In 2008, I realized that I wanted to make a radical change in my life. I gave up everything, left and started farming in the Tambov region. A few years later, in 2016, I started yoga. I traveled a lot to places of power — I wintered in India for several years in a row, I was in Tibet, where I walked around the sacred Mount Kailas. This, by the way, is a very important stage — the bark around Kailas gives a person the opportunity to start a new life. That’s what happened to me. And recently, in January, I was in India on the festival of Maha Kumbha Mela, it is a unique event with sacral meaning. And, in general, it was after that that these events with cryptocurrency unfolded — apparently in response to my request to see how I could influence the situation in the Russian agricultural sector. There are more than enough problems, believe me. So, coming back to your question — yes, I am indeed a farmer, a yogi, and a crypto developer in one person.

— How did you come up with the idea to create memcoin if you are far from the world of crypto?

— I am a man of action, of the real world, not the virtual world. Yes, I was really far from crypto, but chance helped me. The idea came instantly, and it was realized lightning fast. I overheard my teenage son and his friend discussing a memcoin that has recently literally exploded the entire crypto world. The popularity is furious, there are already millions of people in the community, and the coin is growing rapidly.

And I had an instant thought — memcoin has the most powerful potential for creating a community! And the value of a community is not only in capitalization, I say this as a businessman. A community, if it is united by a common idea, is a huge force. What I can’t do alone, we can do together. I’m talking about the opportunity to influence the principles of our farming and, as a result, the quality of life of each of us. With the help of memcoin, a huge number of people can be attracted to a conscious attitude towards the land and the world around them, and as a bonus, they can also earn money.

Anyway, that’s what I thought, I poked the button — and everything spun…

— Could you tell me more about what specific problems in the agricultural sector you are talking about?

I am talking about the slow-motion disaster that is the uncontrolled use of chemicals in the fields.

What damage fertilizers do, how they kill the soil, plants, disrupt the ecosystem, poison the air and water bodies — I know it all from the inside. After fertilizers, the soil is dead. Unfortunately, chemicals are used almost everywhere — and we get their effects.

And you know what’s particularly surprising? Fertilizers aren’t even economically feasible, let alone environmentally damaging.

The math is primitive: the cost of fertilizer and all the chemistry applied equals the price of the added yield. For example, for wheat: 1 hectare without chemistry yields 50 thousand rubles, with chemistry — 65 thousand rubles. The price of fertilizers per hectare plus the cost of application — about 15 thousand. Question — what is the point? And everyone is so used to the fact that it is necessary to fertilize. In large holdings agronomists also can not refuse chemistry themselves, everything must be done according to the approved protocol, without amateurishness. No one wants to lose their job.

But you have to count! These are all the costs — to buy fertilizer, workers' salaries, depreciation of equipment, diesel fuel… The output is zero. Or rather, a huge minus — everything around is poisoned.

The second point, as a consequence of the first one, is oncology. Many medical studies confirm that the statistics of cancer incidence is higher in those regions where agricultural production is carried out on an industrial scale. Ask a rural polyclinic for data on cancer patients — you will be horrified by the number and age. Young people 40+ are already the norm, not the exception.

If the ethical side of the issue is not enough, here is the economic side — the amount of money spent on fighting oncology is also increasing along with the incidence rate. As a businessman, it is obvious to me that this is an irrational rotation of funds.

The third point is not obvious to most people, but I suggest delving into the process. There is an opinion among the masses that grain without chemicals will be scarce, and famine will begin!

Does everyone know how much of our grain is not used for its intended purpose? I’m not talking about export. Just a quick guess — a significant part of all the wheat grown goes to feed… pigs. Pig farms, that is.

One pig eats about a ton of grain a year. Yes, not pure wheat, of course, but it is also present in mixed fodder in considerable quantities. Here are the figures from official sources for 2024:

About 6 million tons of pork raised (that's about 75 million hogs);
83 million tons of wheat grown.
Let’s imagine that at least a 3rd of the entire diet of one piglet is wheat (of any quality). That’s 0.33 tons per year.

Take a calculator and by simple calculations you will see that millions of tons of crops go to feed pigs.

The next important thought is that any doctor will tell you that pork is not only not particularly beneficial, but also harmful to human health. It turns out that 60−70% of the area gives grain to feed pigs, so that people eat pork and they become ill.

It turns out that they pour chemistry on the fields, which makes everyone sick, in order to grow more grain to feed pigs, which also makes everyone sick.

How’s that for logic? It’s like food genocide.

It’s a vicious circle. Is there any way out of it?

I have 1000 hectares of land in the Tambov region, and I do not use chemicals on principle. Weeds are removed mechanically. And — what’s important! — it has no effect on yields. I am telling you as a practicing man.


— The idea is really worthy. How do you see it developing?

My head is spinning at the moment — there are so many proposals and ideas, and the sowing season is just around the corner. Fortunately, we have managed to assemble a strong team, for which I am very grateful to the guys. I wouldn’t have been able to do it all alone, and I haven’t slept since the launch.

Everything is very fast, starting with the launch. I did not expect such an effect — in 4 days the capitalization reached more than 500 thousand dollars, I was just in shock, I did not expect such a flurry of events and influx of people. Now there are more than a thousand people in the AUM Yogaferma community, completely unknown to me — and they keep adding and adding.

In general, to be honest, AUM is not a memcoin in the classical sense. This was explained to me later. I, as a person initially far from diving into crypto, released the coin in the simplest way. That is, in name AUM is a memcoin, but in essence it is a community coin, a coin for creating a community, which carries meaning and specific benefits. In my case, the goal is to draw attention to the agricultural sector, so that people think about the impact of chemistry on health and the environment.

As for development, we are now considering several models for integrating cryptocurrency into the real sector of the economy, particularly in the agricultural sector. Since the direction is fundamentally new and very promising, we need to carefully work out all aspects — protection of AUM holders from exchange rate drops, technical protocols of interaction, plus clarify the white spots in the legislative level, so that everything would be transparent.

There are a lot of prospects — for example, coins can be used to lend to businesses, so the motivation grows for crypto holders — they receive dividends without having to sell coins.

The project has huge potential, literally unlimited by anything. We saw it right after the launch. The growth at the peak reached 2500%. Subsequently, the graph leveled off and began to grow organically, which speaks of the public’s interest in a fundamentally new cryptocurrency model.

Since I do business in Russia, I was born here, my children were born here, it is important for me to do more than just grow and sell grain. In this respect, the creation of a domestic cryptocurrency is also an important moment. I want to draw the community’s attention to the issue of organic farming.

We do not have a story about fast money, as is common in crypto — bought and sold, ran further, and learned by eye. This is a story in the long term, it’s an investment in memcoin as a way to shape your future in a healthier and more informed way. I am a generally well-off person, I am not interested in profit for profit’s sake. I plan long-term development, so that the community will grow with like-minded people, I will invest part of the money in the development of farming without chemicals, and part in the development of the project. And income to holders, of course.

Now the important task is to attract people who are interested in this idea and who are close to my principles. Fortunately, the community is already forming — those who wanted quick money have already received it and left, and those who understood the meaning and are ready to stay in the project and develop it remain. This is very valuable. We all benefit from this, at all levels of understanding.

— Vyacheslav, you are a yogi with a serious practice, you even have a spiritual name. Tell me, how does the spiritual path of a yogi combine with cryptocurrency? Are there no contradictions?

Good question. Yoga as a realized life does not welcome speculation. According to karma, everything comes back — if I cheat someone now, if I make money from him, the same thing will come back to me. I have been living by the principles of yoga for many years, and that is how it works.

Therefore, the project is completely transparent — as you can see, I am open to communication, I do not hide my name and business. Memcoin AUM is backed by the real sector of the economy — grain. And this is a basic level human need. My agricultural business was, is and will continue to work no matter what happens. People always need food.

Coming back to yoga — I am calm about my karma. There is a purpose to which the project is dedicated, and the profits from it also go to specific actions. That is, those who buy the coin, first of all, express support for my principles — conscious and ecological attitude to the earth and the surrounding world. And a plus in karma and an opportunity to earn is an additional bonus.

I am aware that the project is a reputational issue as well. I fully open myself to the community that trusts me and the coin, and hope for reciprocity.

— Your openness is exhilarating. What would you like to say goodbye to our readers?

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to such a wide audience. I hope I was able to convey the idea, and if anyone has any questions or suggestions — I am always happy to get feedback and ready to communicate.

Friends, live consciously, join us in the community of like-minded people — https://yoga-ferma.com, look for ways to make the world around you better — everything is in our hands.