Somnia: High-Performance Blockchain Leading the New Era of Metaverse and Gaming
Somnia is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for the metaverse, on-chain gaming, and decentralized social platforms, developed by the Virtual Society Foundation and supported by Improbable. It utilizes multi-stream consensus and architectural innovations to achieve an ultra-high throughput of over 1 million TPS and sub-second finality, while keeping transaction costs below $0.01, providing a solid foundation for large-scale real-time applications.
The project has received $150 million in seed funding from top investment institutions including a16z and SoftBank, with the ecosystem also gaining $270 million in joint investment. The Somnia mainnet officially launched on September 2, 2025, coinciding with the launch of its SOMI token and related trading services on the Binance platform.
The Somnia testnet processed over 10 billion transactions in six months, attracting 1.18 million unique wallet addresses and participation from over 70 ecosystem projects. Its ecosystem covers multiple fields including gaming, DeFi, NFTs, and infrastructure, showcasing the immense potential as a next-generation blockchain platform. @Somnia Official $SOMI #somnia
