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Luminal is an independent Solana validator running with 0% base commission and 0% Jito MEV commission, carrying 118,847 SOL of activated stake (0.0077% of network stake) and a 97.31 Wiz Score as of epoch 971 (per Stakewiz).

Identity

Luminal operates as an independent validator; its public Stakewiz description field is minimal — "0% Commission + MEV. High performance." — and the operator does not surface a corporate parent, institutional brand, or staking-as-a-service product on the Stakewiz profile. The operator homepage is luminal.wtf. The validator's identity account is 1unarWPGGseFag2WfnoFv8o9P7vTPU8eHex9GinP3eY; the vote account is LunarE7WQyxpPwKo2hkEZZquu6UDWMNjvf3JyzGmdfp. Because the operator description is sparse, stakers should read this profile primarily through the metric layer below rather than brand context.

Performance metrics

  • Wiz Score 97.31 (epoch 971, per Stakewiz).
  • 30-day trailing skip rate 0.00% vs. 0.14% network median at epoch 971 (Stakewiz wiz_skip_rate field and cluster_stats).
  • Vote success 99.58% with credit ratio 99.7% of cluster average (epoch 971, Stakewiz). Above the SFDP per-epoch vote-credit threshold of 97% of cluster average.
  • Uptime 100% at the current Stakewiz snapshot.
  • Delinquent: no at epoch 971 (Stakewiz delinquent field). A delinquent validator is one whose last vote lags the ledger tip by more than ~128 slots; Luminal's last vote is current.

Luminal's first epoch with stake was epoch 712, putting on-chain history at 259 epochs as of epoch 971 — roughly 16 months. The 30-day skip-rate window covers recent performance; longer-horizon comparisons should weight that Luminal has a shorter total observation record than veteran operators in this directory.

Economics

  • Base commission 0% (epoch 971, Stakewiz). Sits at the SFDP base-commission cap of ≤5%.
  • Jito MEV commission 0% (jito_commission_bps: 0, epoch 971). Below the SFDP Jito MEV cap of ≤10%.
  • Total APY 5.98% including Jito MEV rewards (epoch 971, per Stakewiz total_apy). Components: 5.85% base staking APY and 0.13% Jito MEV APY.

Total APY runs above the Stakewiz network average of ~4.4% (epoch 971, cluster_stats). With both commission components at 0%, the entire inflation and MEV payout Luminal receives passes to its stakers.

Infrastructure

  • ASN: AS20473 — Vultr Mexico.
  • Location: Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico.
  • Software version: Agave 3.1.13 (version_valid: true at epoch 971, Stakewiz).

Querétaro is an unusual hosting location for a Solana validator — almost no other validators in the network operate from Mexican datacenter regions, which contributes to geographic dispersion.

Decentralization signals

  • ASN concentration: 3.14% of network stake on AS20473 (Stakewiz asn_concentration). Note that AS20473 is Vultr's global ASN footprint; Luminal's specific Vultr Mexico point of presence contributes only a fraction of that figure.
  • City concentration: 0.04% of network stake in Querétaro (Stakewiz city_concentration).
  • ASN+city concentration: 0.04% (asncity_concentration).

ASN concentration sits well below the SFDP May 1, 2026 threshold of ≤25%; city concentration of 0.04% is among the lowest in the network and well below the ≤15% data-center cap (per Solana Foundation delegation criteria). The Querétaro placement is the meaningful decentralization contribution.

MEV policy

Luminal runs the Jito client (is_jito: true, Stakewiz, epoch 971). With Jito MEV commission at 0%, the validator retains no operator skim on Jito Block Engine tip distribution — stakers receive the full Jito MEV component (0.13% APY at the current network rate, per Stakewiz).

Delegation programs

  • SFDP status: Luminal's metrics (skip rate 0.00%, base commission 0%, Jito MEV commission 0%, ASN concentration 3.14%) satisfy current SFDP performance and infrastructure thresholds; explicit enrollment status should be verified on the Solana Foundation delegation dashboard.
  • Marinade SAM participation: Per-epoch auction state on marinade.finance.
  • Stake pool inclusion: Jito Stake Pool and SolBlaze inclusion vary per epoch — verify on the respective stake-pool dashboards.

Stake history

Luminal holds 118,847 SOL active stake (0.0077% of network) at epoch 971 (Stakewiz). First epoch with stake was epoch 712; on-chain history covers 259 epochs — shorter than the multi-year veterans in this directory but longer than the most recently launched SFDP cohort. For live performance, see solana-scout.

Operator homepage

Operator homepage: luminal.wtf

Metrics cited reference Stakewiz at epoch 971, 2026-05-15. Verify on Stakewiz and Solana Beach for current values.