Galoy Developer Documentation

Overview of Galoy​

The Galoy 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.

Backend​

• Galoy 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.
• Galoy CLI - a Command Line Interface (CLI) client for interacting with Galoy 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.
• Galoy 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​

• Hosted API
• Deployment

API Reference​

Dive a little deeper and start exploring our API reference to get an idea of everything that's possible with the API:

• Galoy public API reference
• Galoy admin API reference