Provider at a glance
- Category
- Lightning Payment Infrastructure
- Official website
- dev.blink.sv
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Details
Scored 75 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in September 2026.
Blink (Galoy)
Custodial Lightning API on the Galoy stack
Lightning Payment Infrastructure
#4 Overall
Ranked #4 of 13 Lightning payment infrastructure in the published ranking
75
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
Is Blink (Galoy) right for you?
Right for you if these matter most
- Exit: keys, channels and migration off the host10/10, the category best
Look elsewhere if these come first
- Published availability and in-flight behaviour6/10 here; Speed scores 10
- Custody of funds in flight6/10 here; Alby Hub scores 8
- Liquidity supply and published cost per payment8/10 here; Alby Hub scores 10
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What will Blink (Galoy) cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Usage per month
- 10
How safe is Blink (Galoy)?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read September 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to Blink (Galoy)
Compare all 4- 2Alby Hub2 points above · stronger on custody of funds in flight (8 against 6)77
- 3Speed1 point above · stronger on availability and outage behaviour (10 against 6)76
- 5Voltage2 points below · stronger on availability and outage behaviour (10 against 6)73
For your setup
Find out if Blink (Galoy) fits you
The rank above is the published one — the same for every visitor. Answer the category's questions and this section shows where Blink (Galoy) lands for you, which criteria your answers weight up, and which stated needs the record does or does not meet. The published rank stays beside it.
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Why this rank
Why Blink (Galoy) ranks #4
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (23.6 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest. Best in this ranking on 1 of 4.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
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248+6.146.010#5/13Loading evidence…
286+5.386.010#3/13Loading evidence…
2210+7.048.010#1/13Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−1behind Speed, #3
RobustnessOne point from changingacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 73–76 and ranks #3–#5
Evidence4 of 4 scored4 quoted, 4 with a source link
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of Blink (Galoy)’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
Custody of funds in flight 6 → 7 on its ladder · passes Speed+176#4 → #3
Liquidity supply and published cost per payment 8 → 9 on its ladder · passes Speed+176#4 → #3
Published availability and in-flight behaviour 6 → 7 on its ladder · passes Speed+176#4 → #3
Custody of funds in flight 6 → 5 on its ladder · Voltage passes it−173#4 → #5
Liquidity supply and published cost per payment 8 → 7 on its ladder · Voltage passes it−173#4 → #5
Published availability and in-flight behaviour 6 → 5 on its ladder · Voltage passes it−173#4 → #5
Smallest climb: custody of funds in flight 6 → 7 passes Speed, #3.
Strengths
1 from the score dataWhere it leads
Best for readers who weight
- Exit: keys, channels and migration off the host — 10/10, the category best
Tradeoffs
3 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- Published availability and in-flight behaviour — 6/10 against a category best of 10/10
- Custody of funds in flight — 6/10 against a category best of 10/10
- Liquidity supply and published cost per payment — 8/10 against a category best of 10/10
Record watch-outs
- The rail an API integration sits on is custodial-only and winding down by region. www.blink.sv/en/terms-conditions s.4.1: “The API provides programmatic access to the Services in Custodial Mode only; Non-Custodial Mode is not available via the API.” www.blink.sv/blog/important-changes-to-custodial-accounts-in-your-region sets “Last day to migrate or withdraw from your custodial account.” at 31 August 2026 or 30 September 2026, and answers the business case with “The same options and timeline apply.” The successor reaches integrators receive-only: dev.blink.sv/examples/btcpayserver-plugin ships “type=blink;ln-address=yourname@blink.sv;” and states “Non-custodial accounts are receive only”.
Competitive position
Where Blink (Galoy) leads and where it trails
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Availability#1 / 1314.0 of 20 · constant here
Published criteria#4 / 1317.7 of 30 · best 20.1
Friction#1 / 132.7 of 10 · constant here
Trust record#1 / 133.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#1 / 138.3 of 18 · pool best
Where Blink (Galoy) leads
- Liquidity supply and published cost per payment#5 / 13
- Published availability and in-flight behaviour#3 / 13
- Exit: keys, channels and migration off the host#1 / 13
Where it trailsNo criterion in the bottom third of its pool.
Closest alternatives
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
Speed#3 of 13 · score 76 · 1.0 point ahead
Blink (Galoy) leads on
- Exit: keys, channels and migration off the host10 vs 6
Speed leads on
- Published availability and in-flight behaviour10 vs 6
Largest single reason Speed is ahead: published criteria (+1.3 display points).Scenario cost: Speed has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Voltage#5 of 13 · score 73 · 2.0 points behind
Blink (Galoy) leads on
- Liquidity supply and published cost per payment8 vs 4
- Exit: keys, channels and migration off the host10 vs 6
Voltage leads on
- Custody of funds in flight8 vs 6
- Published availability and in-flight behaviour10 vs 6
Largest single reason Blink (Galoy) is ahead: published criteria (+1.3 display points).Scenario cost: Voltage has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Alby Hub#2 of 13 · score 77 · 2.0 points ahead
Blink (Galoy) leads onNo scored criterion
Alby Hub leads on
- Custody of funds in flight8 vs 6
- Liquidity supply and published cost per payment10 vs 8
Largest single reason Alby Hub is ahead: published criteria (+6.2 display points).Scenario cost: Alby Hub has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against the leader
81 vs 75 · gap 6.0Why Olympus by ZEUS ranks above Blink (Galoy)
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale — it reproduces the displayed gap of 6.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisOlympus by ZEUSGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight17.720.1−6.2, worse
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight8.38.3same
Published criterionThisOlympus by ZEUSPoints
Custody of funds in flight · w2668−1.66, worse
Liquidity supply and published cost per payment · w24810−1.54, worse
Net7581−6.0
Your scenario
Blink (Galoy) is not priced for this scenario
Metered usage beyond whatever the plan includes, for a year. Excludes egress, support tiers and enterprise minimums. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
your cost/yr · default scenario — set your own
Usage per month · your input10
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 30 September 2026.
your cost/yrCost is stated as your cost/yr in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
Not priced on this basis
Under the default inputs · USDCategory medianNot priced0 of 13 rows priced
Cheapest pricedNone pricedDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filter
13 of 13 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 30 September 2026
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
4 of 4 cells scored
Score evidenceVerified4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from receipts
4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from a quoted, sourced receipt equal to the published strength.Public receiptsReading…4 quoted with a source URL
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
4/4 criteria scored, with 4 dated sources quoted.RobustnessOne point from changingrank #3 to #5 across one-point re-runs
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.The newest evidence read on the platform is 3 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 30 September 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
Custody of funds in flightstrength 6 · weight 26Report an error—30 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Liquidity supply and published cost per paymentstrength 8 · weight 24Report an error—30 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Published availability and in-flight behaviourstrength 6 · weight 28Report an error—30 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Exit: keys, channels and migration off the hoststrength 10 · weight 22Report an error—30 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.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%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- "Intraledger (between Blink users) – no fee!", "Outgoing Lightning – only pay routing fees (~0.02%)", "Stablesats conversion – 0.50% spread, no extra fees"; on-chain "For deposits equal to or lower than 1,000,000 sats: 2,500 sats fixed fee", "For deposits higher than 1,000,000 sats: 5,000 sats fixed fee", "For withdrawals lower than 1,000,000 sats: 5,000 sats fixed fee", "For withdrawals 1,000,000 sats or higher: 10,000 sats fixed fee", and "For an imbalance of more than 10M sats LN/on-chain in a 30-day rolling window: additional 0.2% fees" - dev.blink.sv, Pricing section, fetched 30 September 2026.Blink (Galoy) — official pricing page ↗ · 30 September 2026
- Prices published in
- USDBlink (Galoy) — official pricing page ↗ · 30 September 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Band 2 names the holder. www.blink.sv/en/terms-conditions defines Custodial Mode as the mode in which Blink “holds and manages the User’s Bitcoin Balance and Dollar Balance on the User’s behalf; the User does not hold private keys directly”, and s.7.1 adds “In Custodial Mode, Blink holds the User’s bitcoin in the full-reserve, segregated custody structure of Section 12.1 and controls the keys”.
- Supported chains
- Not published
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- Not published
Legal entity on file: Blink (Galoy), placed in 2 products. Only confirmed entities are shown; nothing is inferred from the brand name.
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How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means this product in this category was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.
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History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
9 methodology entries
- 30 September 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 75, #4 of 13. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
- 16 September 2026
2026.09.15Dimension scores carry tenths, and eleven more categories are re-read from primary sources · platform-wide- changed Dimension scores resolve to tenths of a point (O-04b), and weightedTotal is rounded to six decimal places before the order is read. 518 published scores move across 107 categories that were not re-read; none of them moves by more than 4 points, and most move by 1.
- fixed 66 published scores change in the eleven re-read categories, against a verbatim source each. The largest moves are Reflexer RAI (−16), Beefy and Unrekt (−11), Aztec (−10) and Golem (+9) — all of them rows whose sources had moved since their last read.
- changed Published order moves in 38 of 119 categories and three #1s change: smart_contract_audits (Zellic → Certora) and travel_rule_compliance (Sumsub Travel Rule → CodeVASP) on the finer resolution, kyc_compliance (Veriff → Sumsub) on the re-read.
- added availabilitySource (O-04g): for a reader who states a country, a row whose availability in that country rests on a region tag its record gives no source for sorts below every sourced row. It is inert in every order published here, which states no country.
Methodology 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt lightning_payment_infrastructure:blink-galoy:2026.10.18:d67904f6b740
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