$LUMIA node holders — I've spent six months trying to claim an expired stake. Here is what is documented.
In 2024 Lumia sold HyperNode licences at $1,000 each, raising in the region of $25M. I bought 12. Buyers were told they could operate data-availability nodes and earn rewards, on staking terms of up to 24 months.
Those terms have expired. I cannot claim.
Seven findings. Every one is reproducible:
1. Lumia's own HyperNodes documentation states nodes are "managed on Lumia servers in Phase 1 and 2", with operator-run nodes deferred to a Phase 3 that never arrived. Licence holders have never been able to run the nodes they paid for.
2. The build documentation still publishes step-by-step instructions for running the node software. The repository 404s.
3. The operator registration portal no longer resolves.
4. The claim interface exists in the application's compiled code, but the page hosting it renders empty. Entering any amount errors.
5. The dashboard authentication endpoint returns HTTP 401 with "no user". The backend no longer recognises a wallet it previously did.
6. Lumia's tokenomics documentation names a multi-sig vault at 0x0Ee999247f3e33406131bC6AA896192Bd40cd6b7 as the source of 73.4M LUMIA in node rewards vested over 20 years. As of 3 August it held 0 ETH and roughly $41k in tokens, with no transaction in 127 days. I could not confirm its exact LUMIA balance, and I flag that openly rather than overstate it.
7. The help centre, blog and node tooling are offline. There is no published support email and no working ticket system. Over the same period the company has continued posting regularly about US policy, advisory board appointments and partnerships.
I am not alleging what this means. I am stating what is documented, and asking @BuildOnLumia to answer publicly:
— When will node holders be able to claim expired stakes?
— Will penalties be waived for the period claims were unavailable?
— Where are the node rewards held, if not in the vault named in your own documentation?
I have a four-page evidence document with the method stated for each finding so anyone can reproduce it independently.
Other node holders: reply here. If you have successfully claimed at any point since March, I want to know that too — it matters either way.
$LUMIA node holders — I've spent six months trying to claim an expired stake. Here is what is documented.
In 2024 Lumia sold HyperNode licences at $1,000 each, raising in the region of $25M. I bought 12. Buyers were told they could operate data-availability nodes and earn rewards, on staking terms of up to 24 months.
Those terms have expired. I cannot claim.
Seven findings. Every one is reproducible:
1. Lumia's own HyperNodes documentation states nodes are "managed on Lumia servers in Phase 1 and 2", with operator-run nodes deferred to a Phase 3 that never arrived. Licence holders have never been able to run the nodes they paid for.
2. The build documentation still publishes step-by-step instructions for running the node software. The repository 404s.
3. The operator registration portal no longer resolves.
4. The claim interface exists in the application's compiled code, but the page hosting it renders empty. Entering any amount errors.
5. The dashboard authentication endpoint returns HTTP 401 with "no user". The backend no longer recognises a wallet it previously did.
6. Lumia's tokenomics documentation names a multi-sig vault at 0x0Ee999247f3e33406131bC6AA896192Bd40cd6b7 as the source of 73.4M LUMIA in node rewards vested over 20 years. As of 3 August it held 0 ETH and roughly $41k in tokens, with no transaction in 127 days. I could not confirm its exact LUMIA balance, and I flag that openly rather than overstate it.
7. The help centre, blog and node tooling are offline. There is no published support email and no working ticket system. Over the same period the company has continued posting regularly about US policy, advisory board appointments and partnerships.
I am not alleging what this means. I am stating what is documented, and asking @BuildOnLumia to answer publicly:
— When will node holders be able to claim expired stakes?
— Will penalties be waived for the period claims were unavailable?
— Where are the node rewards held, if not in the vault named in your own documentation?
I have a four-page evidence document with the method stated for each finding so anyone can reproduce it independently.
Other node holders: reply here. If you have successfully claimed at any point since March, I want to know that too — it matters either way.
@BuildOnLumia Lumia shame on you, fund raising 25mil in 2024, using node purchsed funds, only to leave the holders with nothing. SEC is the next step for me after serveral news outlets.
Some emails i sent to reporters from serveral agency today. 2 years staking and this is what we get for our time and trust. Shame on you Lumia, I know what you have done the last 6 months. Lumia's tokenomics documentation names a multi-sig vault at 0x0Ee999247f3e33406131bC6AA896192Bd40cd6b7 as the source of 73.4M LUMIA in node rewards vested over 20 years. As of 3 August it holds 0 ETH and roughly $41k in tokens, with its last transaction 127 days ago. At the same time, node holders whose 24-month staking terms are now expiring cannot claim their rewards, and every support channel the company ran is offline. The node sale that funded this raised in the region of $25M. The attached four-page document sets out seven findings, each reproducible, with my own uncertainties flagged rather than papered over — including the fact that I could not confirm the vault's exact LUMIA balance. Happy to provide wallet verification. Ian — Lumia (formerly Orion Protocol) raised in the region of $25M selling 50,000 node licences at $1,000 each in 2024. Buyers were offered fixed staking terms of up to 24 months; those terms are now expiring, and holders cannot claim. The claim interface exists in the application's compiled code but the page that hosts it renders empty, and the node rewards vault named in Lumia's own tokenomics documentation has recorded no activity on Ethereum for 127 days. There is no support desk, no ticketing system and no support email — their help centre, blog and node tooling are all offline and their announcements channel has been silent since 22 May. Attached is a four-page evidence document; I hold 12 licences and can provide wallet verification and introductions to other holders. this is a protocol story with a paper trail. Lumia raised roughly $25M selling HyperNode licences in 2024 on the promise that holders could operate data-availability nodes; its build documentation still publishes step-by-step instructions to do exactly that, but the software repository 404s and the operator registration portal no longer resolves. Their own HyperNodes doc quietly concedes that nodes are "managed on Lumia servers in Phase 1 and 2", with local operation deferred to a Phase 3 that never arrived. Meanwhile the 24-month staking terms are expiring and holders including me cannot claim — the claim page loads empty and errors on any amount. I've attached a four-page document with seven findings, each with the method stated so you can reproduce every one independently.
$lumia NODE HOLDERS are being scammed from a 2 year stake to zero funds avilable for unstaking.
Emails i sent to reporters from serveral agency today. 2 years staking and this is what we get for our time and trust. Shame on you Lumia, I know what you have done the last 6 months.
Lumia's tokenomics documentation names a multi-sig vault at 0x0Ee999247f3e33406131bC6AA896192Bd40cd6b7 as the source of 73.4M LUMIA in node rewards vested over 20 years. As of 3 August it holds 0 ETH and roughly $41k in tokens, with its last transaction 127 days ago. At the same time, node holders whose 24-month staking terms are now expiring cannot claim their rewards, and every support channel the company ran is offline. The node sale that funded this raised in the region of $25M. The attached four-page document sets out seven findings, each reproducible, with my own uncertainties flagged rather than papered over — including the fact that I could not confirm the vault's exact LUMIA balance. Happy to provide wallet verification. Ian — Lumia (formerly Orion Protocol) raised in the region of $25M selling 50,000 node licences at $1,000 each in 2024. Buyers were offered fixed staking terms of up to 24 months; those terms are now expiring, and holders cannot claim. The claim interface exists in the application's compiled code but the page that hosts it renders empty, and the node rewards vault named in Lumia's own tokenomics documentation has recorded no activity on Ethereum for 127 days. There is no support desk, no ticketing system and no support email — their help centre, blog and node tooling are all offline and their announcements channel has been silent since 22 May. Attached is a four-page evidence document; I hold 12 licences and can provide wallet verification and introductions to other holders. this is a protocol story with a paper trail. Lumia raised roughly $25M selling HyperNode licences in 2024 on the promise that holders could operate data-availability nodes; its build documentation still publishes step-by-step instructions to do exactly that, but the software repository 404s and the operator registration portal no longer resolves. Their own HyperNodes doc quietly concedes that nodes are "managed on Lumia servers in Phase 1 and 2", with local operation deferred to a Phase 3 that never arrived. Meanwhile the 24-month staking terms are expiring and holders including me cannot claim — the claim page loads empty and errors on any amount. I've attached a four-page document with seven findings, each with the method stated so you can reproduce every one independently.
Some emails i sent to reporters from serveral agency today. 2 ywars staking and this is what we get for our time and trust. Shame on you Lumia, I know what you have done the last 6 months. Lumia's tokenomics documentation names a multi-sig vault at 0x0Ee999247f3e33406131bC6AA896192Bd40cd6b7 as the source of 73.4M LUMIA in node rewards vested over 20 years. As of 3 August it holds 0 ETH and roughly $41k in tokens, with its last transaction 127 days ago. At the same time, node holders whose 24-month staking terms are now expiring cannot claim their rewards, and every support channel the company ran is offline. The node sale that funded this raised in the region of $25M. The attached four-page document sets out seven findings, each reproducible, with my own uncertainties flagged rather than papered over — including the fact that I could not confirm the vault's exact LUMIA balance. Happy to provide wallet verification. Ian — Lumia (formerly Orion Protocol) raised in the region of $25M selling 50,000 node licences at $1,000 each in 2024. Buyers were offered fixed staking terms of up to 24 months; those terms are now expiring, and holders cannot claim. The claim interface exists in the application's compiled code but the page that hosts it renders empty, and the node rewards vault named in Lumia's own tokenomics documentation has recorded no activity on Ethereum for 127 days. There is no support desk, no ticketing system and no support email — their help centre, blog and node tooling are all offline and their announcements channel has been silent since 22 May. Attached is a four-page evidence document; I hold 12 licences and can provide wallet verification and introductions to other holders. this is a protocol story with a paper trail. Lumia raised roughly $25M selling HyperNode licences in 2024 on the promise that holders could operate data-availability nodes; its build documentation still publishes step-by-step instructions to do exactly that, but the software repository 404s and the operator registration portal no longer resolves. Their own HyperNodes doc quietly concedes that nodes are "managed on Lumia servers in Phase 1 and 2", with local operation deferred to a Phase 3 that never arrived. Meanwhile the 24-month staking terms are expiring and holders including me cannot claim — the claim page loads empty and errors on any amount. I've attached a four-page document with seven findings, each with the method stated so you can reproduce every one independently.
Some emails i sent to reporters from serveral agency today. 2 ywars staking and this is what we get for our time and trust. Shame on you Lumia, I know what you have done the last 6 months. Lumia's tokenomics documentation names a multi-sig vault at 0x0Ee999247f3e33406131bC6AA896192Bd40cd6b7 as the source of 73.4M LUMIA in node rewards vested over 20 years. As of 3 August it holds 0 ETH and roughly $41k in tokens, with its last transaction 127 days ago. At the same time, node holders whose 24-month staking terms are now expiring cannot claim their rewards, and every support channel the company ran is offline. The node sale that funded this raised in the region of $25M. The attached four-page document sets out seven findings, each reproducible, with my own uncertainties flagged rather than papered over — including the fact that I could not confirm the vault's exact LUMIA balance. Happy to provide wallet verification. Ian — Lumia (formerly Orion Protocol) raised in the region of $25M selling 50,000 node licences at $1,000 each in 2024. Buyers were offered fixed staking terms of up to 24 months; those terms are now expiring, and holders cannot claim. The claim interface exists in the application's compiled code but the page that hosts it renders empty, and the node rewards vault named in Lumia's own tokenomics documentation has recorded no activity on Ethereum for 127 days. There is no support desk, no ticketing system and no support email — their help centre, blog and node tooling are all offline and their announcements channel has been silent since 22 May. Attached is a four-page evidence document; I hold 12 licences and can provide wallet verification and introductions to other holders. this is a protocol story with a paper trail. Lumia raised roughly $25M selling HyperNode licences in 2024 on the promise that holders could operate data-availability nodes; its build documentation still publishes step-by-step instructions to do exactly that, but the software repository 404s and the operator registration portal no longer resolves. Their own HyperNodes doc quietly concedes that nodes are "managed on Lumia servers in Phase 1 and 2", with local operation deferred to a Phase 3 that never arrived. Meanwhile the 24-month staking terms are expiring and holders including me cannot claim — the claim page loads empty and errors on any amount. I've attached a four-page document with seven findings, each with the method stated so you can reproduce every one independently.
Some emails i sent to reporters from serveral agency today. 2 ywars staking and this is what we get for our time and trust. Shame on you Lumia, I know what you have done the last 6 months. Lumia's tokenomics documentation names a multi-sig vault at 0x0Ee999247f3e33406131bC6AA896192Bd40cd6b7 as the source of 73.4M LUMIA in node rewards vested over 20 years. As of 3 August it holds 0 ETH and roughly $41k in tokens, with its last transaction 127 days ago. At the same time, node holders whose 24-month staking terms are now expiring cannot claim their rewards, and every support channel the company ran is offline. The node sale that funded this raised in the region of $25M. The attached four-page document sets out seven findings, each reproducible, with my own uncertainties flagged rather than papered over — including the fact that I could not confirm the vault's exact LUMIA balance. Happy to provide wallet verification. Ian — Lumia (formerly Orion Protocol) raised in the region of $25M selling 50,000 node licences at $1,000 each in 2024. Buyers were offered fixed staking terms of up to 24 months; those terms are now expiring, and holders cannot claim. The claim interface exists in the application's compiled code but the page that hosts it renders empty, and the node rewards vault named in Lumia's own tokenomics documentation has recorded no activity on Ethereum for 127 days. There is no support desk, no ticketing system and no support email — their help centre, blog and node tooling are all offline and their announcements channel has been silent since 22 May. Attached is a four-page evidence document; I hold 12 licences and can provide wallet verification and introductions to other holders. this is a protocol story with a paper trail. Lumia raised roughly $25M selling HyperNode licences in 2024 on the promise that holders could operate data-availability nodes; its build documentation still publishes step-by-step instructions to do exactly that, but the software repository 404s and the operator registration portal no longer resolves. Their own HyperNodes doc quietly concedes that nodes are "managed on Lumia servers in Phase 1 and 2", with local operation deferred to a Phase 3 that never arrived. Meanwhile the 24-month staking terms are expiring and holders including me cannot claim — the claim page loads empty and errors on any amount. I've attached a four-page document with seven findings, each with the method stated so you can reproduce every one independently.
@BuildOnLumia US based company with a 25mil raise and around 8k node holders, major platforms next, i also found issues with the staking and claiming pools
Some emails i sent to reporters from serveral agency today. 2 ywars staking and this is what we get for our time and trust. Shame on you Lumia, I know what you have done the last 6 months. Lumia's tokenomics documentation names a multi-sig vault at 0x0Ee999247f3e33406131bC6AA896192Bd40cd6b7 as the source of 73.4M LUMIA in node rewards vested over 20 years. As of 3 August it holds 0 ETH and roughly $41k in tokens, with its last transaction 127 days ago. At the same time, node holders whose 24-month staking terms are now expiring cannot claim their rewards, and every support channel the company ran is offline. The node sale that funded this raised in the region of $25M. The attached four-page document sets out seven findings, each reproducible, with my own uncertainties flagged rather than papered over — including the fact that I could not confirm the vault's exact LUMIA balance. Happy to provide wallet verification. Ian — Lumia (formerly Orion Protocol) raised in the region of $25M selling 50,000 node licences at $1,000 each in 2024. Buyers were offered fixed staking terms of up to 24 months; those terms are now expiring, and holders cannot claim. The claim interface exists in the application's compiled code but the page that hosts it renders empty, and the node rewards vault named in Lumia's own tokenomics documentation has recorded no activity on Ethereum for 127 days. There is no support desk, no ticketing system and no support email — their help centre, blog and node tooling are all offline and their announcements channel has been silent since 22 May. Attached is a four-page evidence document; I hold 12 licences and can provide wallet verification and introductions to other holders. this is a protocol story with a paper trail. Lumia raised roughly $25M selling HyperNode licences in 2024 on the promise that holders could operate data-availability nodes; its build documentation still publishes step-by-step instructions to do exactly that, but the software repository 404s and the operator registration portal no longer resolves. Their own HyperNodes doc quietly concedes that nodes are "managed on Lumia servers in Phase 1 and 2", with local operation deferred to a Phase 3 that never arrived. Meanwhile the 24-month staking terms are expiring and holders including me cannot claim — the claim page loads empty and errors on any amount. I've attached a four-page document with seven findings, each with the method stated so you can reproduce every one independently.