About Linq Games
We're building the financial layer game economies have always needed
Founded in Brooklyn in 2023. Bootstrapped. Focused on the problem game developers have been duct-taping around for a decade — real wallet infrastructure that works for gaming.
Founder story
Why Dmitry built Linq
"I spent five years as a payments engineer — Adyen, then a couple of gaming-adjacent startups. Every studio I talked to had the same story: they'd cobbled together Stripe for card processing, Tipalti for payouts, some off-the-shelf ledger for wallet balances, and were duct-taping it all together with a lot of undocumented internal APIs. When they wanted cross-game currency portability, it usually meant a second ledger nobody fully trusted. I built Linq because the problem was real, the complexity was real, and nobody had made it as simple as Stripe made card payments."
Dmitry Vysotski — Founder & CEO, Linq Games
Mission
Game economies deserve real financial infrastructure
The world's most engaging games have player economies that generate real value — for studios, for creators, for players. But the plumbing underneath has always been an afterthought: card APIs bolted onto transaction ledgers, patchwork compliance, and no portability across titles. Linq fixes the plumbing.
What we believe
Developer experience is not optional
An API that takes three days to understand is a failed API. Every endpoint, every error code, every response field is documented and predictable. We benchmark ourselves against Stripe's DX, not the industry average.
Compliance should be invisible
Studios shouldn't need a FinCEN compliance team to build an economy. KYC, AML, 1099s, MTL coverage — Linq handles it so your team can ship features instead of talking to lawyers.
Portability is a feature, not an edge case
Players invest real time and money in game economies. Letting them carry that value across titles isn't a gimmick — it's respect. Cross-game currency is a first-class primitive on Linq.
The team
Small, focused, and deeply technical. No enterprise sales org — just engineers and a compliance specialist who've lived the problem.
Dmitry Vysotski
Founder & CEO
Payments infrastructure background. Previously led platform engineering at two gaming-adjacent fintech startups.
Priya Nair
Head of Engineering
12 years in distributed systems and financial ledger design. Built wallet infrastructure at a major digital payments platform before Linq.
Marcus Wren
Head of Compliance
Former FinCEN examiner. Specializes in money transmission licensing for digital goods and virtual currency businesses.
Sofia Reyes
Lead Platform Engineer
Core contributor to the Linq SDK and Wallet API. Game industry background — shipped economies at two mid-size studios.
Where we work
Brooklyn, NY
We're based at 55 Prospect Street, 4th Floor — Dumbo, Brooklyn. Close to the NYC fintech scene but building for game studios everywhere. If you're passing through, drop a line.
Get in touchWork with us
Building an economy? Let's talk.
We work closely with every studio that comes on board. Especially while we're still small.