During yesterday's developer community AMA, the team publicly unveiled the draft of the Somnia Stream API documentation for the first time. I spent the whole night on it and am looking forward to this feature launching in October. In simple terms, it wraps blockchain nodes into a WebSocket persistent connection, allowing developers to POST a JSON to receive real-time updates on chain status. For front-end developers familiar with Firebase and Supabase, the learning curve is almost non-existent.
First is speed. In the official demonstration, after sending a mint request locally, a receipt containing the block height can be received through the Stream channel within 250 milliseconds, which saves the polling step found in traditional RPC. MultiStream consensus has long surpassed the million TPS mark, and this time Somnia Stream aims to make throughput 'usable' rather than 'visually appealing'.
Secondly, the supporting logic of GasRefuel. I deposited USDC using an external chain wallet on the testnet, and after selecting Gas Refuel, it automatically deducted 0.05 $SOMI as the first Gas. This detail is extremely user-friendly: newcomers can directly experience on-chain functionality without needing to prepare tokens in advance. Just think about the awkwardness of borrowing 'a bit of gas' from friends before the first interaction on Ethereum, and you will realize how essential this 'refueling at any time' is.
More importantly, safety. The team reminds everyone to be aware of phishing domain names pretending to be browsers. I compared the real and fake sites: the fake site URL has an extra 'explorer-somnia.network', and clicking on it will prompt an authorization, a typical drainer. Somnia uses a hard-coded whitelist combined with front-end red flags, integrating security education into product details, which is essential for an ecosystem looking to attract Web2 developers.
Regarding commercialization, @Somnia Official indicates that the basic quota of Stream API is permanently free; charges only apply when exceeding the threshold $SOMI .
. For startup teams, this means almost zero cost for early trial and error; for token economics, it adds a continuous real demand. Considering the 160,000 daily active users and the stable buying pressure brought by only 10 SOMI being online, this is healthier than mere speculation.
My plan is simple: to transform the company's existing React Native project into an on-chain points system and test the real-time capabilities of Stream. Write the webhook, and the estimated code modifications will be less than 300 lines. If we can run the mainnet successfully within three days, it will be enough to show that #Somnia has truly lowered the threshold from Web2 to Web3. This kind of 'making developers happy' endeavor, once successful, often attracts a swarm of people, and the ecosystem will naturally start to roll forward.
So, at next month's Token2049, what I want to see is not who has secured funding again, but how many traditional applications dare to deploy demos on Somnia Stream. That would be the best touchstone to test whether blockchain is truly reaching the masses. @Somnia Official , I look forward to you paving this highway completely.
