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Blink Ledger Systems

Blink (Blink Ledger Systems Inc.) builds online identity and payment technologies for digital publishers. A single Blink account works across publishers, giving readers one universal login and frictionless payment so they can subscribe, donate, or buy an individual article or podcast with one click, or enable autopay for small frequent purchases. Publishers integrate three products — Blink Identity, Blink Pay and Blink Donate — through one hosted JavaScript SDK that places Blink-managed panels into the page, a dashboard-configured User Journeys rules engine, four server-side JSON endpoints for OAuth2 login, and a signed webhook notification stream covering subscription, payment and donation events. Founded 2017; incorporated in the US in 2018 and surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a Polychain portfolio company.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Blink Ledger Systems the way a machine reads it — 8 machine-readable artifacts across 5 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Blink Ledger Systems scores 50.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 45/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 50.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Payments 8.1 / 15
Agent readiness — 45/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Blink Ledger Systems

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Blink Ledger Systems. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 5

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Blink SDK for JavaScript

Browser SDK exposing window.blinkSDK. Provides Login with Blink (getAuthorizationCode), subscription entitlement checks (isSubscribed, getSubscription, onSubscriptionChange), si...

Blink Notifications (Webhooks)

Outbound webhook stream delivering signed JSON notifications for subscription, payment and donation lifecycle events. Every payload is signed with ed25519 over the canonicalized...

Blink Ledger Systems Authentication API

Client account login and bearer token issuance.

Blink Ledger Systems OAuth Applications API

Registration and retrieval of OAuth application credentials.

Blink Ledger Systems Users API

Blink user profile exchange.

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Blink Ledger Systems — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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