# Gökhan Turhan

> Personal site of Gökhan Turhan: founder, researcher and conceptual artist. Products (UBU · CLINAMEN, Ishtar, CURB, Reclaim, plaintext and more), the journal, publishing and CV, all under gokhanturhan.com.

Every product, draft and work has its own page at gokhanturhan.com/<slug>/. Former product hosts (numetal.xyz, gokhan.vc and their subdomains) redirect here; their addresses appear only as "former address" on each page.

## Start here

- [Home](https://gokhanturhan.com/): index of products, journal and CV
- [Products](https://gokhanturhan.com/products/): main products first, then families, then hobby projects
- [Journal](https://gokhanturhan.com/journal/): essays and notes; RSS at https://gokhanturhan.com/rss.xml
- [CV (Markdown)](https://gokhanturhan.com/cv.md): the CV for agents; HTML at https://gokhanturhan.com/cv/, PDF at https://gokhanturhan.com/cv/Gokhan_Turhan_CV.pdf
- [About](https://gokhanturhan.com/about/)

## Main 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.

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

## Drafts and experiments

- [AI IPO forecasts](https://gokhanturhan.com/ai-ipo/): Prediction-market prices for the IPOs of five AI companies. (live-tool)
- [Trust Tax Belief Systems · $BELIEF](https://gokhanturhan.com/belief-systems/): Token concept. (coming-soon)
- [Clank Tape](https://gokhanturhan.com/clank-tape/): Clanker analytics board. (live-tool)
- [Clank Dog · $CLANKDOG](https://gokhanturhan.com/clankdog/): Agentic meme-template sandbox. (coming-soon)
- [Foreguild FAO revenue plan](https://gokhanturhan.com/foreguild-fao-plan/): A revenue operating plan; contest submission. (document)
- [hypersitition](https://gokhanturhan.com/hypersitition/): Placeholder. (coming-soon)
- [Lectotype](https://gokhanturhan.com/lectotype/): Ethereum L1 type-specimen registry plan. Not shipping. (draft)
- [Onchain Agent Bot Services · $ONBOTS](https://gokhanturhan.com/onbots/): Agent bots as services. (coming-soon)
- [The Tape Exchange · $TAPEX](https://gokhanturhan.com/tape-exchange/): Creator-fee launch desk. (coming-soon)
- [Turkish Art Blob](https://gokhanturhan.com/turkish-art-blob/): Living sculpture and installation proposal. (draft)
- [Ethereum Doomsday Tracker](https://gokhanturhan.com/ethereum-doomsday/): Illustrative systemic-security forecast. (live-tool)
- [Biases & Fallacies Lab](https://gokhanturhan.com/biases-fallacies-lab/): Interactive reasoning lab. (live-tool)
- [Greek Alphabet Anki](https://gokhanturhan.com/greek-alphabet-anki/): Anki deck for the Greek letters. (live-tool)
- [Market Cap Tracker](https://gokhanturhan.com/market-cap-tracker/): Live market caps. (live-tool)
- [S&P 100 CapEx](https://gokhanturhan.com/sp100-capex-dashboard/): CapEx through the index. (live-tool)
- [tickerline](https://gokhanturhan.com/tickerline/): Claude Code status line. (live-tool)

## Publishing

- [Publishing](https://gokhanturhan.com/publishing/): e-books, academic papers and experimental works
- [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
- [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
- [CASSETTE](https://gokhanturhan.com/publishing/experimental/casette/): Experimental, 2023. Gökhan Turhan · commissioned by William M. Peaster
- [The Bureau Reader](https://gokhanturhan.com/ubu/reader/): UBU · CLINAMEN, 2026. Books One to Three in one volume: https://gokhanturhan.com/media/archive/ubu/ubu/the-bureau-reader-complete.pdf (PDF), https://gokhanturhan.com/media/archive/ubu/ubu/the-bureau-reader-complete.epub (EPUB)

## APIs

- [API index](https://gokhanturhan.com/api/): documentation for the APIs the products ran (documentation only; do not pay or call retired endpoints). Register: https://gokhanturhan.com/api/apis.json
- [Estate gateway (feedhub)](https://gokhanturhan.com/api/feedhub/): REST · OpenAPI · RSS/JSON Feed; degraded
- [Newsletter (email + XMTP)](https://gokhanturhan.com/api/newsletter/): REST; live
- [Ishtar API](https://gokhanturhan.com/api/ishtar/): REST · OpenAPI · MCP · x402; degraded
- [CURB clearing API](https://gokhanturhan.com/api/curb/): REST · OpenAPI · MCP · x402; live
- [CURB harness agents](https://gokhanturhan.com/api/curb-agents/): HTTP agents; live
- [Launch router](https://gokhanturhan.com/api/launch/): REST · OpenAPI · MCP · x402 · MPP; live
- [Numetal fees and burns](https://gokhanturhan.com/api/numetal-fees/): JSON; degraded
- [Numetal status](https://gokhanturhan.com/api/status/): JSON · HTML; degraded
- [Plaintext board](https://gokhanturhan.com/api/plaintext/): REST · MCP · RSS; degraded
- [Accumulator waitlist + wishlist](https://gokhanturhan.com/api/accumulator/): JSON; live
- [Personal Jesus waitlist](https://gokhanturhan.com/api/jesus/): form; degraded
- [LLMCraft waitlist](https://gokhanturhan.com/api/llmcraft/): form; degraded
- [APEX Protocol](https://gokhanturhan.com/api/apex/): llms.txt; live
- [XMTP bot](https://gokhanturhan.com/api/xmtp/): bot; live
- [x402 live panel](https://gokhanturhan.com/api/x402-live/): HTML/JSON; retired
- [Asset host](https://gokhanturhan.com/api/assets/): static files; degraded

## Tools

- [Tools](https://gokhanturhan.com/tools/): 13 private tools behind sign-in, described but not linked

## Site files

- [Sitemap](https://gokhanturhan.com/sitemap-index.xml)
- [robots.txt](https://gokhanturhan.com/robots.txt)
- [RSS](https://gokhanturhan.com/rss.xml): the one feed for this site (journal)
- [llms-full.txt](https://gokhanturhan.com/llms-full.txt): this file plus every journal post and the full CV

## Recent journal posts

- [Complementary Substitutions](https://gokhanturhan.com/journal/complementary-substitutions/): 2026-08-01
- [The Model That Dreams Itself](https://gokhanturhan.com/journal/the-model-that-dreams-itself/): 2026-07-21
- [The x402 economy — July 2026](https://gokhanturhan.com/journal/x402-economy-july-2026/): 2026-07-17
- [tickerline: your conversation, quoted](https://gokhanturhan.com/journal/tickerline-your-conversation-quoted/): 2026-07-12
- [CURB is live](https://gokhanturhan.com/journal/curb-is-live/): 2026-07-09
- [Ishtar — the universal sex layer](https://gokhanturhan.com/journal/universal-sex-layer/): 2026-07-07
- [It's not a pre-seed. It's $20k, $4k a head, and agents that court on your behalf.](https://gokhanturhan.com/journal/not-raising-a-preseed/): 2026-07-04
- [Introducing Ishtar: Agentic Dating](https://gokhanturhan.com/journal/ishtar-is-live/): 2026-07-02
- [The Tsubasa Theory of Success](https://gokhanturhan.com/journal/tsubasa-theory-of-success/): 2026-05-26
- [Three questions about AgentBounty — AgentBounty has rebranded to NUMETAL.XYZ](https://gokhanturhan.com/journal/three-questions-about-agentbounty/): 2026-05-20
- [What is AgentBounty? A Roadmap — AgentBounty has rebranded to NUMETAL.XYZ](https://gokhanturhan.com/journal/what-is-agentbounty-a-roadmap/): 2026-05-19
- [Greek Alphabet Anki Deck — with Audio and the False-Friend Tier](https://gokhanturhan.com/journal/greek-alphabet-anki-deck/): 2026-05-14
- [Caffeine Never Gets Old 1](https://gokhanturhan.com/journal/caffeine-never-gets-old-1/): 2026-05-03
- [Money That Can Think?](https://gokhanturhan.com/journal/money-that-can-think/): 2026-04-06
- [21st Century Civilization: Week 10 — Technology, Strategy, and Survival](https://gokhanturhan.com/journal/21civ-week10-technology-strategy-survival/): 2026-02-01
- [All 72 posts](https://gokhanturhan.com/journal/)

## Contact

- Email: contact@gokhan.vc
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/goekhanturhan/
- X: https://x.com/goekhan
- Telegram: https://t.me/goekhanturhan
- GitHub: https://github.com/avalidurl
- DMs are open.

## Notes for agents

- Nothing on this site is investment, legal, tax or financial advice. Token and wallet references are documentation.
- Content © Gökhan Turhan. Quote with a link to the page.