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+# Awesome Galoy ⚡ [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge-flat.svg)](https://awesome.re)
+
+A curated list of the [**galoy**](https://galoy.io/) set of apps & services that can be combined to offer Bitcoin-based community banking.
+
+The **galoy** system allows someone to setup a system of bitcoin on-chain and lightning network wallets and an internal account system to support offering bitcoin-based accounts to end users.
+
+With a **galoy**-based account, users are able to:
+- [x] send/receive bitcoin on-chain
+- [x] send/receive bitcoin over the Lightning Network
+- [x] send/receive bitcoin to other Galoy instance users at little to no cost
+- [x] track Bitcoin price activity
+- [x] find merchants to spend with on a local area map
+
+![Image of community banking](images/home-image-03.jpg)
+
+
+## Tech components
+
+A collection of the various tools and repos available for setting up your own bitcoin community-based bank.
+
+### Backend
+
+A collection of repos that can be used to deploy the backend components required to support a bitcoin community bank.
+
+- [**`galoy`**](https://github.com/GaloyMoney/galoy)
+
+
+  The backend application that interacts with the bitcoin and accounting layers to enable sending, receiving and holding balances.
+
+- [**`galoy-infra`**](https://github.com/GaloyMoney/galoy-infra)
+
+  ...
+
+- [**`charts`**](https://github.com/GaloyMoney/charts)
+
+  ...
+
+- [**`price`**](https://github.com/GaloyMoney/price)
+
+  ...
+
+- [**`dealer`**](https://github.com/GaloyMoney/dealer)
+
+  ...
+
+### API
+- [**`galoy`**](https://github.com/GaloyMoney/galoy)
+
+  A GraphQL API that exposes the internal functions 
+  of the galoy application.
+
+- [**`api-docs`**](https://github.com/GaloyMoney/api-docs)
+
+  Documentation for the galoy GraphQL API
+
+### Frontend
+- [**`galoy-tips`**](https://github.com/GaloyMoney/galoy-tips)
+
+  A single page for each user of a galoy instance, that consumes the instance's GraphQL Api to present a QR code users can share for receiving payments via the Lightning Network. 
+
+- [**`admin-panel`**](https://github.com/GaloyMoney/admin-panel)
+
+  A dashboard that can be used to do various administrative functions by the admins of a given galoy instance.
+
+- [**`galoy-mobile`**](https://github.com/GaloyMoney/galoy-mobile)
+
+  A mobile app to be used as a wallet by end-user, that consumes the GraphQL Api of a given galoy instance.
+
+
+## Galoy in the wild
+
+_Examples of deployed galoy instances._
+
+### 🏄 Bitcoin Beach Wallet Project
+
+A community project deployed in the surfing village of El Zonte in El Salvador.
+
+#### Mobile app
+...
+
+#### Tips pages
+...
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