General Counsel & CCO, OpenNode · Digital Assets · African Markets · AI-Native Legal
"The rules governing digital money, African financial infrastructure, and AI-native legal operations are all being written at once. I work on getting them right."
I'm the General Counsel and CCO of OpenNode, a Bitcoin payments infrastructure company. My work sits at the convergence of three things in motion simultaneously: the emergence of open, programmable payment rails; the opportunity for African markets to leapfrog financial systems that were never built for them; and the transformation of legal and compliance functions by agentic AI.
Before OpenNode, I was the Chief Legal Officer of a global peer-to-peer crypto exchange — the kind of platform where digital assets and underserved markets actually meet. I began my career at Sullivan & Cromwell.
Africa is where the lessons are sharpest. But the conclusions travel.
All writing at medium.com/@ogenec
If you're building regulatory frameworks, payment infrastructure, or institutional policy in the digital asset space — or thinking seriously about what financial architecture should look like for markets that get to choose — I'd like to know you.