Galoy's company page states that Galoy was founded in 2020 by Nicolas Burtey, who is CEO, and that the company began by building Bitcoin banking software for communities in El Salvador.
Blink's own origin account fills in the sequence. In 2020 Burtey learned about the effort in El Zonte to run a circular Bitcoin economy, contacted Mike Peterson and the Bitcoin Beach team, and worked with local merchants and residents on the Lightning wallet he was already building. The Bitcoin Beach Wallet launched within months and was later renamed Blink. That is an unusual development order for a Bitcoin product: the requirements came from people who had to accept payment on cheap phones, not from a specification.
Galoy Inc. now sells core banking infrastructure to financial institutions, built around a single double-entry ledger holding dollars, euros, bitcoin and stablecoins, with a Bitcoin-backed lending platform called Lana. Much of the stack is published as open source.
Only his public professional role is recorded here.