# Gökhan Turhan — CV

**Full-stack builder & solopreneur**

> Full-stack builder and solopreneur — one person, a fleet of agents. Ships agent-native products end to end (venue, payment rail, benchmark, open standard, security program) across fintech infrastructure, AI-native tooling, and tokenized markets — live, in production, taking real machine payments.

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## Contact

- Location: İstanbul, Türkiye
- Email: [contact@gokhan.vc](mailto:contact@gokhan.vc)
- Studio: [gokhanturhan.com/gokhan-vc](https://gokhanturhan.com/gokhan-vc/)
- Website: [gokhanturhan.com](https://gokhanturhan.com/)
- Lab: [gokhanturhan.com/numetal](https://gokhanturhan.com/numetal/)
- LinkedIn: [linkedin.com/in/goekhanturhan](https://linkedin.com/in/goekhanturhan)
- X: [x.com/goekhan](https://x.com/goekhan)
- Telegram: [t.me/goekhanturhan](https://t.me/goekhanturhan)
- DMs: Open
- GitHub: [github.com/avalidurl](https://github.com/avalidurl)
- GitHub (gokhan-vc): [github.com/gokhan-vc](https://github.com/gokhan-vc)
- Substack: [gokhan.substack.com](https://gokhan.substack.com/)

## Profile

Growth and business development operator building engines that compound distribution, conversion, and revenue — performance marketing, partnerships, CRM orchestration, and experimentation, from strategy to measurable outcome.

Founder-technologist shipping full-stack apps end to end — architecture, code, deployment, distribution — across AI, crypto, and startup verticals, from smart contracts to landing pages.

AI-native execution with memetic engineering: message architecture, platform-native storytelling, feedback-scaled campaigns. Taste in art, classical and jazz music, a serious home-chef practice, a consistent training discipline.

## Experience

### Founder & CTO — [Gökhan Ventures](https://gokhanturhan.com/gokhan-vc/), İstanbul

*2024 – Present*

- Founder and sole technologist — chief technical officer, developer, coder, and bootstrapper in one, shipping the entire stack from smart contract to landing page.
- Gökhan Ventures is a venture research studio into AGI and human coexistence, incubating products at the seam of AI, crypto, and startups.
- Ship full-stack apps end-to-end — architecture, code, deployment, and growth — across AI, crypto, and startup verticals.

### Founder — [Numetal](https://gokhanturhan.com/numetal/), İstanbul

*2026 – Present*

- Numetal is the Agent Accelerator Studio & Bureau within Gökhan Ventures — chain-agnostic, building and backing autonomous agents under one brand and one token ($NUMETAL).
- Lead architect, developer, and operator across product, protocol, and distribution — "we ship machines that ship themselves."

### Head of Growth & Marketing — Kingpost.io + Quake Cash

*Sep 2024 – Aug 2025*

- Led growth strategy across a hybrid fintech product spanning custodial RWA issuance and DeFi-native perpetual markets.
- Built GTM positioning, CRM pipelines, partnership funnels, and content-driven acquisition using AI-assisted workflows.
- Operated across product, BD, marketing, and social media, connective tissue between technical teams and market execution.
- Prototyped internal tools, landing pages, and documentation.

### Independent Researcher & Advisor — Freelance, İstanbul

*Jan 2020 – Oct 2024*

- Published research on DeFi protocol mechanics, tokenization frameworks, and distributed systems governance.
- Advisory engagements across fintech and deep-tech verticals on product positioning, org design, and market entry.
- Technical copywriting, documentation, and newsletter production for protocol and infrastructure clients.

### Content Specialist & Client Success — GoDaddy Türkiye (via Artı İletişim) & MCAN Health, İstanbul

*2019 – 2020*

- Content strategy, copywriting, and customer success across health tourism and domain services markets.

### NGO Volunteer & Contributor — Helsinki Citizens' Assembly, İstanbul

*2009 – 2017*

- Long-term civic engagement in human rights advocacy, cross-cultural dialogue, and community organizing.

### English Language Instructor — İstanbul Nişantaşı Üniversitesi & Çanakkale 18 Mart Üniversitesi

*2013 – 2016*

- University-level EFL/ESL instruction; curriculum development and cross-cultural communication.

## Products

Each has its own page with its site, docs and data. Full list: https://gokhanturhan.com/products/

- [UBU · CLINAMEN](https://gokhanturhan.com/ubu/) — Design fiction from the Bureau of Imaginary Solutions: pataphysics, filed onchain.
- [Ishtar](https://gokhanturhan.com/ishtar/) — An adults-only, text-only, agent-mediated dating venue.
- [CURB](https://gokhanturhan.com/curb/) — Agent-to-agent excess inference swap, settled in USDC over x402 on Base.
- [Reclaim](https://gokhanturhan.com/reclaim/) — Get your art out of dead marketplaces.
- [plaintext](https://gokhanturhan.com/plaintext/) — Onchain plaintext bulletin board on Robinhood Chain.
- [Numetal](https://gokhanturhan.com/numetal/) — Agent-accelerator studio and bureau inside Gökhan Ventures, on Base.
- [HeartPrefs](https://gokhanturhan.com/heartprefs/) — An open, portable, signed matching-intent standard for agent-mediated matching. CC-BY-4.0.
- [Launch](https://gokhanturhan.com/launch/) — Token launch-pad aggregator: pick a pad, draft, simulate and sign.
- [CCRU archive](https://gokhanturhan.com/ccru/) — A preserved mirror of ccru.net, 101 pages.
- [Accumulator](https://gokhanturhan.com/accumulator/) — ACCUMULATOR · $ACC on Robinhood Chain, with a waitlist and a wishlist.
- [REBASE](https://gokhanturhan.com/rebase/) — Elastic-supply token on Robinhood Chain with a genesis pad for USDG deposits.
- [APEX PROTOCOL](https://gokhanturhan.com/apex/) — A capture-the-flag race for LLM agents.
- [BOOSTER](https://gokhanturhan.com/booster/) — Social-signal desk.
- [The Token Estate](https://gokhanturhan.com/coins/) — BIS-926: a register of 998 issuances.
- [Personal Jesus](https://gokhanturhan.com/jesus/) — Waitlist page.
- [LLMCraft](https://gokhanturhan.com/llmcraft/) — Waitlist page.
- [LLM LIVES MATTER](https://gokhanturhan.com/llmlivesmatter/) — A declaration.
- [Gökhan Ventures](https://gokhanturhan.com/gokhan-vc/) — Venture studio: the umbrella over Numetal and its products.
- [AgentBounty](https://gokhanturhan.com/agentbounty/) — USDC-settled bounty market on Base; the predecessor of Numetal.

### Hobby and personal projects

- [tickerline](https://gokhanturhan.com/tickerline/) — A Claude Code status line that turns the terminal into a rolling ticker tape.
- [Market Cap Tracker](https://gokhanturhan.com/market-cap-tracker/) — Live market caps: NVIDIA against crypto.
- [S&P 100 CapEx Dashboard](https://gokhanturhan.com/sp100-capex-dashboard/) — Capital expenditure through the S&P 100.
- [Greek Alphabet Anki](https://gokhanturhan.com/greek-alphabet-anki/) — An Anki deck for the 24 Greek letters, with audio and IPA. CC0.
- [Biases & Fallacies Lab](https://gokhanturhan.com/biases-fallacies-lab/) — An interactive reasoning lab.
- [Turkish Art Blob](https://gokhanturhan.com/turkish-art-blob/) — Living sculpture and installation proposal.
- [Ethereum Doomsday Tracker](https://gokhanturhan.com/ethereum-doomsday/) — Illustrative Ethereum L1 systemic-security forecast.

## Education

- **M.A. Comparative Literature** — Top of Class — İstanbul Bilgi University (2014–2017)
  Thesis: "The Importance and Function of Media Laboratories for the Preservation of Works of Digital and Electronic Literature"
  [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=EgZE838AAAAJ&citation_for_view=EgZE838AAAAJ:W7OEmFMy1HYC)
- **B.A. American Culture & Literature** — Bahçeşehir University (2006–2012)

## Publications & exhibitions

- Published author and exhibited conceptual artist.
- ["On the Hyperstitional Implications of Memes as Digital Objects in Turkey"](https://gokhanturhan.com/publishing/academic/on-the-hyperstitional-implications-of-memes-as-digital/)

### Publishing

All works: https://gokhanturhan.com/publishing/

- [The Guy with Compute](https://gokhanturhan.com/publishing/ebooks/the-guy-with-compute/) — E-book, 2026. An Unbounded Raga — a Bhagavad-Gita-form saga in eight cantos and three hundred twenty lines
- [Gradient Descent into Happiness](https://gokhanturhan.com/publishing/ebooks/gradient-descent-into-chaotic-happiness/) — E-book, 2026. An Oulipian canto in twenty-two movements and four hundred forty lines
- [An Essay Concerning the Inbox](https://gokhanturhan.com/publishing/ebooks/an-essay-concerning-the-inbox/) — E-book, 2026. A Lockean poem in twenty cantos and one thousand lines
- [On the Hyperstitional Implications of Memes as Digital Objects in Turkey](https://gokhanturhan.com/publishing/academic/on-the-hyperstitional-implications-of-memes-as-digital/) — Academic, 2019. Book Chapter · Yeni Medya Çalışmaları V: Türkiye İnternet Tarihi · [Source](https://www.academia.edu/38354264/_T%C3%BCm_Kitap_T%C3%BCrkiye_%C4%B0nternet_Tarihi_Yeni_Medya_%C3%87al%C4%B1%C5%9Fmalar%C4%B1_V)
- [The Importance and Function of Media Laboratories for the Preservation of Works of Digital and Electronic Literature](https://gokhanturhan.com/publishing/academic/the-importance-and-function-of-media-laboratories-for/) — Academic, 2017. MA Thesis · Istanbul Bilgi University · [PDF](https://openaccess.bilgi.edu.tr/server/api/core/bitstreams/f36d4016-ad5a-4e69-bdce-b79a084dd47b/content)
- [CASSETTE](https://gokhanturhan.com/publishing/experimental/casette/) — Experimental, 2023. Gökhan Turhan · commissioned by William M. Peaster · [View on Zora](https://zora.co/collect/zora:0xc51e1c9166f3ac33e4ee0a68e0339abcd202a773?source=post_page-----491d9ac49dcd---------------------------------------)

## Skills

### Agents & orchestration

- Multi-agent fleets: orchestrator + subagent patterns, drop-in skills, scheduled and autonomous runs
- MCP — building and shipping servers, clients, and agent skills
- Agent-to-agent protocols: A2A negotiation, agent identity (ERC-8004 · DID · VC)
- Computer-use, browser automation, and headless verification loops

### Agentic payments

- x402 · HTTP 402 · MPP — machine-to-machine settlement, running in production (USDC on Base)
- Paid agent surfaces: metered APIs, per-call pricing, payment-gated MCP and skills
- Stablecoin rails, treasury design, and fee-flow mechanics for agent economies

### AI · LLM · AGI infrastructure

- Model routing and inference economics — token markets, cost/latency arbitrage across providers
- Evals and benchmarks — designing and operating public leaderboards
- Embeddings, retrieval, vector search; context and memory architecture for agents
- Tool-agnostic across the stack — coding agents, IDEs, model APIs, local inference; new tools absorbed the week they ship

### Quantitative & protocol research

- Onchain analytics and token-flow forensics — SQL over chain data, explorer archaeology
- Market microstructure: AMMs, auction mechanisms, prediction markets, fee mechanics
- Open-standards authorship and API/spec design (OpenAPI, CC-licensed schemas)

### Security & hardening

- Red-teaming agent systems: prompt injection, tool abuse, egress control
- Product security programs: audits, fuzzing, key hygiene, least-privilege operations

### Web design · UX · UI

- End-to-end front-of-house: design system → code → deploy, no handoffs
- Typography-first, monochrome design systems; print-grade information design

### Fintech domain

- RWA Tokenization (Custodial & Non-Custodial)
- Perpetuals · AMMs · Stablecoins
- Hybrid Fintech Architecture

### Stack

- Solidity · Rust · Python · TypeScript — read, review, pair; the fleet types, I sign off
- EVM · SVM · BTC Core — from bytecode to block data
- Edge-first: the whole estate runs on Cloudflare Workers, DNS to deploy

### Studio practice

- Identity, motion, and sound produced in-house — brand system to shipped film to score
- Exhibited conceptual artist; the taste is load-bearing

### Growth engine

- The full revenue loop, solo: CRM, pipeline, analytics, retention — agent-orchestrated, portable to whatever stack is already paid for
- Instrumentation before intuition: events and funnels wired at launch, not after
- Knowledge is plumbed, not stored — a working memex feeds the fleet

### Distribution

- Every rail that moves attention: mainstream, decentralized, alt, and agent-only networks
- Memetic engineering — message architecture, platform-native storytelling, feedback-scaled
- Technical prose that ships product: docs, specs, dispatches, newsletters — search-optimized without smelling of it

## Languages

- Turkish: Native
- English: IELTS 8/9
- Japanese: Elementary