| title | LUME Token |
|---|---|
| description | The native asset of Lumera, used for protocol services, network security, settlement, and governance. |
| sidebarTitle | LUME Token |
LUME is the native asset of the Lumera Protocol. It is used to pay for transactions and protocol services, secure consensus through staking, coordinate economic activity across the network, and govern protocol parameters.
Because transaction fees, protocol-service payments, staking collateral, and governance participation are all denominated in LUME, the asset is embedded directly within the operation and security of the network rather than existing alongside it.
Transactions and protocol services. LUME pays gas on every transaction and settles protocol-service requests across the network. When an Action requires payment, the applicable fee is quoted in LUME, escrowed on-chain, and released according to the service's completion and settlement rules.
Economic coordination. LUME provides a common settlement asset across applications, validators, SuperNodes, and protocol services. This allows participants to request work, provide services, post economic commitments, and settle activity through a shared protocol-native asset.
Security and staking. Validators and delegators stake LUME to secure consensus. Validators operate infrastructure, propose and validate blocks, and earn security issuance and transaction fees. Delegators contribute stake without operating a validator and earn pro-rata rewards net of validator commission.
SuperNode alignment. SuperNodes operate alongside eligible validators and provide the decentralized services applications consume. Validator eligibility and self-stake requirements tie protocol-service capacity to operators with real economic commitment to the network.
Governance. Staked LUME governs protocol parameters, economic settings, software upgrades, community-pool expenditures, and the evolution of protocol services. See Governance.
LUME issuance is adaptive rather than fixed. The protocol recalculates the issuance rate each block to steer the proportion of bonded supply toward a target staking ratio.
When the bonded ratio falls below the target, issuance increases incrementally to strengthen the incentive to stake and secure the network. When the bonded ratio exceeds the target, issuance decreases to limit unnecessary dilution and preserve additional liquid supply. Changes are bounded and gradual, preventing abrupt adjustments to network economics.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Initial supply | 250,000,000 LUME |
| Target bonded ratio | 67% |
| Initial issuance rate | 13.75% |
| Maximum issuance rate | 20% |
| Minimum issuance rate | 5% |
| Issuance adjustment rate | 7.5% |
These parameters are governable and may change through on-chain governance. Current values can be queried directly from the network's mint and staking modules.
Two mechanisms offset growth in circulating supply:
- Transaction-fee burn. A portion of every transaction fee is permanently removed from supply. As transaction activity increases, the amount of LUME burned increases with it, creating a direct link between network usage and token scarcity.
- Slashing. Validators and delegators may forfeit staked LUME for objectively provable consensus failures. Where slashed LUME is burned under the applicable protocol rules, the penalty permanently removes that amount from supply.
A separate portion of security issuance is directed to the community pool for governance-approved protocol development and ecosystem initiatives. Exact economic flows are described in Protocol Economics.
Validators and delegators stake LUME to secure consensus and participate in the network's economic security. Validators are expected to maintain availability, correctly sign blocks, and comply with consensus rules. Provable failures may result in jailing, loss of rewards, or slashing of bonded stake.
| Condition | Potential consequence |
|---|---|
| Downtime | Temporary jailing, missed rewards, and any applicable downtime penalty |
| Double signing | Significant slashing and removal from the active validator set |
| Other provable consensus violations | Penalties determined by the applicable protocol and governance rules |
Delegators share the economic consequences of the validator they select. Validator selection should therefore account for operational reliability, security practices, commission, governance participation, and long-term performance—not advertised yield alone.
LUME's utility expands with the services available through the protocol. Applications use it to pay for transactions and decentralized services; validators and delegators stake it to secure consensus; SuperNodes earn it for performing verifiable work; and holders use it to govern the economic parameters under which the network operates.
As Lumera supports a broader ecosystem of decentralized intelligent services, LUME remains the common asset connecting service demand, operator compensation, network security, and governance through one economic framework.
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