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#517: Kirill Avery, CEO of Alien, on Decentralized Identity Networks, Continuous Human Verification Protocol (CHVP), and The Future of AI & Crypto

February 12, 2026·27 min
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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](http://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” - Co...

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