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Introduction
What LumosCore is, what runs on it today, and how the non-custodial model works.
LumosCore is a non-custodial interface to on-chain markets. You connect a wallet you already control, and every transaction is built in your browser and signed by that wallet. There is no account to create, no deposit to make, and no LumosCore-held balance — which also means there is nothing here for us to lose or freeze.
These docs cover what is live today. If something is described here, it works on Stellar mainnet right now.
#Where to start
#What runs today
LumosCore has been live on Stellar mainnet since 1 August 2026. Each of these is in production, not planned.
| Capability | What it does |
|---|---|
| Swaps | Trade assets against Stellar's own order book and liquidity pools, priced from executed on-chain trades rather than a quoted feed. |
| Limit orders | Place a resting order at your own price. Free — you pay only the network fee. |
| Liquidity pools | Create a pool, deposit into one, withdraw whenever you like. No lock-up. |
| Cross-chain | Move USDC between Stellar and eight networks over Circle's CCTP. |
| Wallet | Balances, activity, sending and receiving, all signed in your own wallet. |
| Launchpad | Issue an asset, mint the supply and open its first pool in one flow. |
| Rewards | Three LUMOS programmes for liquidity providers and holders. |
#How the custody model works
Three parties, three jobs, and none of them is holding someone else's assets:
- LumosCore presents the network through one interface and builds the transaction.
- Stellar executes and records it, and remains the source of truth.
- Your wallet holds the keys and signs. Nothing moves without it.
In practice this means we cannot move your funds, cannot reverse a transaction you signed, and cannot recover a key you have lost. The trade-off runs both ways: nobody can freeze your balance either, and there is no account of yours for an attacker to take over.
Non-custodial is not risk-free
It means we do not add a pool of customer funds to the system. It does not remove the risks of the assets you hold, the pools you enter, or the transactions you approve. Security covers what remains.
#A note on asset names
On Stellar a ticker is not an identity. Anyone can issue an asset called USDC, and
many have. What identifies an asset is the account that issued it. LumosCore checks assets against
their issuer through a domain handshake and marks the ones that resolve — see
Asset verification for what that mark does and does not mean.
The habit worth forming: check the issuer, not the ticker, before you trade something unfamiliar.
Last updated 29 August 2026