Camilo Ayerbe Posada

Camilo Ayerbe Posada

Building the Internet's missing identity layer. Founder of ULISSY s.r.l. and the GNS Protocol.

About

I am a Colombian-Italian founder with four decades of experience spanning philosophy, journalism, hospitality, and software development.

Current Work

I lead ULISSY s.r.l. in Rome, where I am building the GNS Protocol (Geospatial Naming System) — a decentralized identity layer for the Internet that proves humanity through physical movement rather than biometrics or passwords.

The core innovation is TRIP (Trajectory-based Recognition of Identity Proof), a protocol that uses Ed25519-signed, spatially quantized location attestations to build cryptographic proof of embodied existence. Drawing on Giorgio Parisi’s Nobel Prize-winning work on scale-free correlations in biological systems and Albert-László Barabási’s research on the fundamental limits of human mobility, TRIP’s Criticality Engine evaluates whether a trajectory exhibits the statistical fingerprint of a living organism operating at the edge of criticality.

TRIP is currently an active Internet-Draft at the IETF, with alignment to the RATS (Remote ATtestation procedureS) working group’s attestation architecture (RFC 9334). The protocol specification, reference implementation, and supporting materials are maintained by the GNS Foundation.

I also designed ULissy, a domain-specific programming language for location-aware applications, with spatial primitives, cryptographic signing, and privacy quantization built into the language itself.

Previous Work

I co-founded Hotel de la Opera in Bogotá, Colombia, and later founded Interactive1 Italia, a digital agency with offices in London, Milan, and Zagreb specializing in institutional portals, e-learning platforms, and geo-marketing solutions (exited 2016).

Academic Background

I hold a degree in Philosophy from the University of Pisa, where I studied epistemology and evolutionary theory under the late Remo Bodei. My thesis explored the tension between Darwinian competition and Lamarckian cooperation as engines of evolution — a framework that continues to shape everything I build, from the mutualistic design principles behind GNS to my ongoing work on AI ethics and the philosophy of information.

Research Interests

  • Decentralized identity and Proof-of-Trajectory
  • Statistical physics applied to human mobility verification
  • Domain-specific languages for geospatial applications
  • AI ethics, algorithmic aesthetics, and the philosophy of information
  • Self-Organized Criticality in biological and digital systems

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