CryptoNews Podcast · 2026-02-12 · 27 min
Kirill Avery is the Founder and CEO of Alien. Serial founder, self-taught coder since age 11, built Europe's largest consumer social app at 16 (15M users). Youngest engineer at [VK.com]( ) and youngest solo founder accepted into Y Combinator. Expertise in high-load systems (100M+ users), consumer UX, and mobile viral distribution. In this conversation, we discuss: - Privacy-first decentralized identity network - Social graph APIs - “Proving humanness” - Continuous Human Verification Protocol (CHVP) - The role of secure hardware (TEEs) - Tradeoffs between transparency and confidentiality in identity systems - The future of AI, Identity and Crypto - Trust systems are needed for the future Alien X: @alienorg Website: Telegram: t.me/aliendotorg Kirill Avery X: @kirillzzy LinkedIn: Kirill Avery - This episode is
#518: Chris Yin, CEO of Plume Network, on Optimizing Looping, RWAs, Onchain Asset Management, and Nest vaults on Solana53 / 100#516: Xenia Soborova, Head of BD at Tramplin, on The Solana Ecosystem, Solana Staking, and Business Development in crypto#515: Matt Ober, Managing Partner at Social Leverage, on Prediction Markets, Consumption-based Data Models, Stablecoins, Tokenization, Identifying Trends, and The Degenerate Economy#514: Bhau Kotecha, Co-Founder of Paxos Labs, on Stablecoin Adoption, USDG, Omnichain Architecture, and Privacy Focused Stablecoins#513: Sun Raghupathi, CEO of Veda, on Consumer-Grade DeFi, Vaults, Onchain Yield, and The Future of RWAs