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.
  
  

Early benchmarks on Somnia Devnet achieved 1M+ TPS across 100 globally distributed nodes, validating its architecture. Next steps include real-world workload simulations such as Uniswap-scale swaps per second and NFT mints at Otherside-like scale.

Somnia Key Milestones

• 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.
  
  

Bringing Somnia to Light with Dune

Now live on Dune, you can track and query Somnia’s performance and ecosystem growth in real time:

• 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.

What’s Next?

If you believe there’s a blockchain that deserves to be part of the Dune platform, submit a proposal through our Data Request list. Or, use Dune Catalyst to integrate your chain directly and make it discoverable on Dune.

Resources

• Get started with Somnia data
• How to create Dune Dashboards
• Use Sim API

The data must flow! 🚀