Exploring Digital Identity in the AI Era with Kirill Avery

In this episode of DevNTell, Narb welcomes Kirill Avery, a serial founder and self-taught coder, to discuss digital identity and privacy in the age of artificial intelligence. Kirill shares his background as a teenager growing up in Russia and his journey into building mobile social apps, highlighting a major success with an app that reached 15 million users. He explains his shift to digital identity, which he views as a fundamental but poorly designed layer of the internet. The conversation covers issues with centralization, data ownership, the risks posed by AI-generated deepfakes and bot farms, and the potential of technologies like zero-knowledge proofs and digital wallets to address these challenges. Kirill emphasizes the need for a product-focused approach in the crypto industry to drive mainstream adoption and improve user retention.