According to ChainCatcher, Eskender Abebe has joined early-stage crypto venture firm Archetype as its chief product officer, the firm’s first person in the role. He said he will build internal platforms and tools, bring a product perspective to the investment process, and work directly with early-stage founders to help them move faster. Abebe previously served as chief product officer at Eliza Labs, maintainer of the open-source AI agent framework elizaOS, and earlier led product at ENS and worked as a senior technical product manager at Consensys.

Abebe said crypto and AI both enable coordination without central institutions, and that crypto’s experience with ownership, incentives and open coordination will be important to autonomous AI systems. He said he joined Archetype because he valued the team’s investment judgment and close collaboration with founders.