Self Host Overview
The Blink core banking platform includes the parts necessary to launch a community bank on Bitcoin and Lightning. It is designed to be modular and extensible, so that it can be customized to meet the needs of any community or organization.
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Join the Galoy Workspace and say hello in the Town Square – there is a community of devs happy to help you get up and running.
Backend
- Blink Core – interacts with the bitcoin and accounting layers to enable sending, receiving and holding balances. Check out the API section for an interactive tutorial to get started with our hosted instance.
- Stablesats – service for implementing fiat hedging strategies via supported exchanges; enables the provision of synthetic USD to provide dollar-like stability without stablecoins.
- Bria - a service for transaction batching and onchain liquidity management.
- Blink CLI - a Command Line Interface (CLI) client for interacting with Blink Core.
Apps
End-user and merchant experiences
- Mobile Wallet – simple end user experience enables send/receive onchain and Lightning. Mobile wallet includes educational onboarding quiz & merchant map.
- Blink Pay – web application end users can share online or display in person to receive payments to their account.
Administrator experiences
- Dashboard – enables monitoring usage and performance of the instance
- Admin panel – web application which lets a support team manage users and transactions on their galoy instance.
Getting started
API Reference
Dive a little deeper and start exploring our API reference to get an idea of everything that's possible with the API: