John O’Connor

John O’Connor is CEO of RealFi, a platform building yield-bearing stablecoin infrastructure backed by real-world credit and fixed income. He was the first hire at Cardano and helped scale it into one of the world’s largest blockchain networks, before later leading emerging-market blockchain initiatives at Input Output, including helping secure and deliver one of the world’s largest blockchain identity deployments in Ethiopia.


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Opinion

Stablecoins Were Meant to Disrupt Finance. Instead, They Became Idle Cash.

O’Connor argues that crypto’s clearest success story has scaled as money but not as capital.

Jun 13, 2026

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