Concepts Network
I am Gökhan Turhan, and some of you know me under the aliases such as gokhan.eth, 0xgokhan and gigabvatti. I am a growth marketer focusing on the junction of financial technology, cryptoeconomics and private art markets.
Since 2017, I have been an active market participant, builder, self-taught developer in the making, and a conceptual artist with a background in accesible fintech, open finance, permissionless finance, decentralized finance, comparative literature, speculative long-term archives, technological acceleration, the philosophy of science.
I am nerdsniped by the game theorical and user-friendly abstractions across markets that benefit from decentralized finance (DeFi), orderflow auctions (MEV), zero knowledge proofs & zkVM, data and information markets, idea futures (prediction markets, futarchy), unconditional and effective acceleration practices, and competitive governance. Besides this, I have been actively participating in the niché of the markets under the artificial intelligence clusters as a mere observer, to put it humbly, for the last decade.
I believe that not only are there structural and incentive alignment related problematics in the emergent markets when it comes to crypto and what's allegedly re-dubbed as web3, and now famously onchain; there is also a social, political, cultural, and marketual design and engineering problem. It's why most of the time the crypto is enshrined through some echo chambers, or gargantuan investors—not to offend smart VCs—who see our industry as a money printer for their next venture out in the real world which will wither as well.
As we are progressing towards 2030s where we'll have abstracted the onchain economy with its offchain power rails, and the institutional adoption that's already in the making; we will need key decision makers, groups, collectives and contextually curated markets.
Concepts Network is rather an umbrella center for works, projects, chat groups and socials that I am running under the de facto Not So Open Finance. It's a tree of building in progress which will conceive a couple of product lines in 2025.
This newsletter will its main information distribution channel that will accompany a memex that's in the making.
Stay tuned.