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GaloyMoney is an open source banking platform enabling any organization to launch a community bank on top of Bitcoin and Lightning.

GaloyMoney Dev Docs

Overview of GaloyMoney

The GaloyMony core banking platform includes the parts necessary to launch a community bank on Bitcoin:

Backend

• Backend API – interacts with the bitcoin and accounting layers to enable sending, receiving and holding balances
• Dealer – service for implementing fiat hedging strategies via supported exchanges; enables the provision of synthetic USD to provide dollar-like stability without stablecoins

End-user and merchant experiences

• Mobile wallet and web wallet – simple end user experience enables send/receive onchain and Lighting. Mobile wallet includes educational onboarding quiz & merchant map
• Tipping pages – 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

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API Reference

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

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{% content-ref url="reference/admin-api-reference.md" %} admin-api-reference.md {% endcontent-ref %}