First, let's get to know the fundamentals of Somnia
On September 2, 2025, the Somnia mainnet officially launched! This is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain compatible with EVM, designed for games, the metaverse, and real-time applications.
Technical aspects:
- MultiStream Consensus mechanism combined with compilation and execution, significantly improving throughput and concurrency capacity
- Claims to achieve a processing capacity of 1 million transactions per second (TPS) with sub-second final confirmation times
- Self-developed IceDB database engine, significantly enhancing data read and write speeds and network stability
Testnet performance
- Processed over 10 billion transactions
- Daily peak reached 1.9 billion transactions
- Attracted nearly 118 million independent wallet addresses to participate
Strong background support:
- The development team comes from the multinational technology company Improbable
- Secured $270 million investment from renowned institutions such as SoftBank and a16z
- Partnered with Google Cloud, which became a network validator
Currently, there is already ecosystem development:
- Over 70 development projects have been launched
- Covering games, DeFi, NFTs, and social applications
- Launched an 8-week Dreamathon incubator to support ecosystem innovation
The launch of the Somnia mainnet aims to provide infrastructure for large-scale on-chain applications and virtual societies, attempting to achieve breakthroughs in the balance between throughput and latency.
