Governance Roadmap

The governance model of Lume is initially designed as a gradually decentralizing, modular, and sustainably updatable system, where power transitions from the development team to the community as the network grows, while maintaining technical integrity and security. The Governance Roadmap outlines how Lume progresses from a managed stage to a fully autonomous model based on verifiable rules and transparent on-chain logic.

In the early stages, the network requires rapid decision-making—this is a period of active technical updates, patches, and calibration of core systems. Therefore, initially, governance is built around the Lume Core Council, a small technical committee responsible for emission parameters, adjustments to the K-constant, AMC limits, PoD configurations, and network updates. This ensures security: at the stage of active growth, the network is too sensitive to potential errors or malicious attempts to make changes. However, the role of the Core Council is strictly limited by the Roadmap—after stabilizing the core protocol modules and implementing protective mechanisms, this power starts transitioning to the community.

The transition to decentralization is gradual, and the first step is the creation of the Lume Improvement Protocol (LIP)—a standardized procedure for making changes to the protocol. Any proposal will go through several stages: preliminary review, open discussion phase, formal technical verification, and subsequent on-chain voting. At this stage, Lume begins to transform into an architecture that evolves collectively, not centrally.

Simultaneously, the Delegate Layer system is launched, allowing users to delegate their voting power to representatives—technical experts, analysts, validators, or public figures. This addresses the issue of low involvement: most users are not willing to spend time studying technical proposals but are willing to delegate participation to competent representatives. Delegates not only vote but are also required to provide public reports—who voted, for what, and why. This increases transparency and fosters a culture of responsibility within the ecosystem.

The next step of the Roadmap is to move key network parameters to the on-chain Governance Authority module, which excludes the possibility of manual changes. Parameters related to the economy (emission, burn rates, DRR coefficients, K thresholds) transition under the control of on-chain voting and become immutable outside of this process. This eliminates the possibility of hidden settings or non-public edits—the network rules become open-source code and an open contract between users and the protocol.

After this, the implementation of Autonomous Parameter Oracles begins—autonomous modules that collect network metrics (load, demand, node stability, liquidity reserves) and publish them in smart contracts for automatic application. As a result, some parameters of the economic model no longer depend on human decision-making and begin to be managed by objective data. Governance is no longer tied to subjective judgments—only to mathematics and algorithms.

The final stage of the Governance Roadmap is the transition to Full Protocol Sovereignty, in which:

• The Lume Core Council is completely disbanded;

• All protocol updates occur only through LIP;

• Any network parameter can only be changed through on-chain voting;

• Delegates and participants are given economic incentives for participating in governance;

• The governance system becomes self-sustaining and resilient.

At this stage, the protocol becomes socially and technically autonomous. The development team transforms into one of the equal participants, and the future of the network fully depends on token holders and their ability to collectively make decisions.

Lume's Governance Roadmap is not just about forming a DAO. It is a gradual transformation of the network into a self-governed economic system, where rules are code, and code is consensus. With its phased approach and clear division of responsibilities, Lume establishes a sustainable governance model capable of evolving for decades without centralized control.