Gökhan Turhan

Founder & CTO — Gökhan Ventures (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 (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.

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