Doruk İsmen founded Turkey's first university blockchain club, ITU Blockchain, as the founding president in February 2018. He started his career at KPMG as someone who has been breathing with crypto since 2017 and trying to produce value-added crypto content by producing content with his own name and surname on YouTube-Twitter. He took part in technology consultancy and audit projects and worked as a project manager in IT projects of Turkey's largest companies. After a while, his interest in crypto prevailed and he wanted to direct his career in this field. Doruk, who started his crypto career as the Marketing Director of the stable coin company BiLira, which is pegged to the Turkish Lira, raised it's operations as the market launcher of Bybit. He is currently the Turkey Leader of the dYdX Foundation. He is also among the founding partners of Lytera, a Web3 research and data analysis company.
