Lycia gathered cities around one table. Kaş keeps the habit.
Kaş has been a harbor for four thousand years. Two thousand years ago it was Antiphellos, a port of the Lycian League, a federation of cities that sent delegates to a shared assembly in proportion to their size. Its stone theater still faces the sea above the marina, and Lycian tombs cut into the cliff watch over the old town. People have been deciding things together on this coast for a very long time.
In 2021 a café in the old town became a coworking space, and remote builders began choosing Kaş as a home. In 2022 the community found its permanent room, a yellow-walled hall with a justice mural on the wall and Ethereum on the whiteboard. In 2023 it co-hosted Web3 META HUB İstanbul and carried the Kaş model onto stages from Riyadh to Dubai. In 2025 ZuKaş opened as a pop-up city of the Zuzalu network, and in September 2026 its second season gathered the coast again under the banner Ancient Roots, Future Protocols.
After five years of gatherings one request kept returning. Visitors wanted more than a week. Teams wanted a month to ship the thing they had sketched on the terrace. Researchers wanted a place to write, and families wanted a place to land. A cohort of fifteen days answers all of them: long enough to finish a chapter, short enough to say yes to.
Barbarossa gives that answer a home with enough rooms for a village, enough villas for seven different questions and enough quiet to think.
