What is Somnia?
Somnia is a high-performance, cost-efficient, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain built to enable real-time, mass-consumer applications —games, social platforms, metaverses, and beyond—all fully onchain.
With over 1,000,000 transactions per second (TPS) and sub-second finality, Somnia is pushing blockchain performance to web2 scale while retaining web3 principles of openness, composability, and censorship resistance. Supported by Improbable and MSquared, Somnia’s mission is to power a new generation of internet-scale onchain experiences.
Core Innovations
- Accelerated Sequential Execution: compiled EVM bytecode for maximum throughput.
- IceDB: a fast, predictable database for blockchain state.
- MultiStream Consensus: PoS, partially synchronous BFT protocol inspired by Autobahn BFT.
- Advanced Compression: optimized node-to-node data traffic for massive throughput.
- February 2025: $270M Ecosystem Funding Announcement — Secured funding from Improbable, MSquared, a16z Crypto, and SoftBank to support gaming and apps.
- February 21, 2025: Testnet Shannon Launch — Designed for 1M+ TPS, sub-second finality, sub-cent fees; integrated dev tools and staking.
- July 2025: Google Cloud Partnership — Google Cloud joins as validator to boost gaming infrastructure.
- August 10, 2025: Testnet Hits 2B Transactions — Crossed 2 billion transactions processed.
- August 15, 2025: Airdrop Eligibility Checker Live — SOMI token airdrop with 20% unlocked day one, 80% vesting over 60 days.
- TPS Tracking: Benchmark Somnia’s throughput across ERC-20 transfers, swaps, and NFT mints.
- Protocol Adoption: Compare contract deployments, ecosystem dApps, and user growth.
- Ecosystem Flows: Analyze token movement, gas costs, and real-time onchain activity.
- Use Cases in Action: Explore Somnia-powered apps across Gaming, SocialFi, Metaverse, DeFi, and real-time mass-consumer applications.
- Get started with Somnia data
- How to create Dune Dashboards
- Use Sim API
The data must flow! 🚀
