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Blink (Galoy)

3 placements on ChainChoice under Blink (Galoy), each scored against its own category's pool and criteria — #1 in one of them. The placements are not averaged and not ranked against each other: a #1 exchange and a #6 crypto card are two different products in two different markets.

Lightning Wallets
Blink
Rank#1 OverallScore82

Leads the published order

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Lightning Payment Infrastructure
Blink (Galoy)
Rank#4 OverallScore75

#1 in this category: Olympus by ZEUS

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MEV Protection
Blink (formerly Merkle.io)
Rank#6 OverallScore60

#1 in this category: MEV Blocker

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Lightning Wallets
How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
  • Custody failure (Blink 10/10): whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.
    Scored by Custody of the spending balance · 30%
  • Exit failure (Blink 9/10): you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.
    Scored by The exit to the base chain and what it costs · 24%
  • Key failure (Blink 9/10): your own keys are made, shown or recovered unsafely.
    Scored by What a backup restores, and where a failed payment goes · 20%
Not assessed by this ranking: Control failure, Liveness failure, Information failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Inbound capacity and how it is provisioned (26%).
Lightning Payment Infrastructure
How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
  • Liveness failure (Blink (Galoy) 6/10): the operator stops, censors you or loses data.
    Scored by Published availability and in-flight behaviour · 28%
  • Custody failure (Blink (Galoy) 6/10): whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.
    Scored by Custody of funds in flight · 26%
  • Exit failure (Blink (Galoy) 10/10): you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.
    Scored by Exit: keys, channels and migration off the host · 22%
Every failure family that applies to this category is scored. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Liquidity supply and published cost per payment (24%).
MEV Protection
How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
  • Liveness failure (Blink (formerly Merkle.io) 5/10): the operator stops, censors you or loses data.
    Scored by Inclusion breadth and what happens when your transaction is dropped · 20%
  • Execution failure (Blink (formerly Merkle.io) 5/10): you get a worse price, later, or nothing.
    Scored by Order-flow privacy in practice · 30%
  • Information failure (Blink (formerly Merkle.io) 2/10): the number is wrong or bought, or your data leaks.
    Scored by Independence and quality of the protection evidence · 20%
Not assessed by this ranking: Control failure, Regulatory failure, Exit failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Rebate published AND reaching the end user's address (30%).