There are consequences to being based in a country that, as a matter of normal practice, considers its companies to be an extension of the state. The question isn't so much; "do you trust Kaspersky" as "do you trust Putin's Russia" For me the answer is no! Does anyone believe that Kaspersky could resist a full out press from Putin for nefarious use of Kaspersky's huge power? He could only use it once and Kaspersky would be destroyed so there would never be evidence of it until a one-time use of the silver bullet was required. But the damage could be devastating like going cyber-nuke. For that matter do you trust Trump re: American anti-virus companies? For me the answer is the same, no! The only answer long term is to aggressively fund OSS efforts so they can openly produce competitive products. This is up to each of us to do in order to maintain some distance from those who would abuse the system.

This looks like a container implementation rather than a VM. Anyone know? If so are they doing their own containers or is this Docker or Kubernetes?

This may have a side effect like a cryptocurrency but it misses the point. Ethereum is much much more, it is a blockchain platform to run anything on participating computers anywhere. Some projects include a distributed decentralized VPN, a version of GitHub where you are paid with Ether or other contract scrip, on and on. Its value is hard to understate if you look past cryptocurrency.