In recent years, AI has become the focal point of every technology trend — from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini to open-source models, all of which are changing the way humans interact with information and data. However, what few people realize is: AI is not just a tool but is about to become the new user of blockchain.
And if the first users of Web3 are gamers, traders, or content creators, then the next generation of users — AI Agents — may shape the entire new development phase of blockchain, which @Somnia Official is currently the most prominent representative.
1. Why does AI need blockchain?
The relationship between AI and blockchain does not stop at 'recording AI data on-chain'. As the AI ecosystem becomes complex — millions of Agents operating, calling APIs, paying for services — core issues begin to emerge:
Transparency in transactions:
Most current AI platforms are centralized. Users cannot verify how costs are allocated or results are recorded. Blockchain provides absolute transparency, allowing every transaction to be verifiable.Performance and scalability:
AI Agents interact at extremely high frequencies, possibly thousands of times per second. Most traditional blockchains cannot handle such data volume and speed.Value distribution mechanism:
When many parties participate — from model providers, computational infrastructure providers, to Agent users — blockchain becomes the only tool that ensures fairness, automation, and the absence of intermediaries.
This is where Somnia shines.
2. Somnia – The ideal platform for AI Agents
#Somnia is not just a high-speed blockchain, but a real-time infrastructure designed for the AI era.
Low latency:
With architectureMultistream Consensusand execution layerASE, every transaction can be confirmed in milliseconds — a crucial condition for continuously interacting AI Agents.Cost close to 0:
Unlike regular Web3 users, AI Agents can generate millions of transactions per day. If gas fees are high, the economic model will collapse. Somnia thoroughly addresses this issue.Transparent verification capability:
Thanks toIceDB, the entire history of interactions between Agents and stakeholders is recorded, facilitating the auditing process, performance evaluation, or reward distribution to be clear and fair.
In summary, Somnia creates a natural environment for AI Agents to operate, communicate, and autonomously manage their own economy.
3. When AI Agents become 'chain users'
Unlike humans — who need wallets, interfaces, and Web3 knowledge — AI Agents operate entirely through APIs and smart contracts. This creates three fundamental changes:
No learning barriers:
Agents do not need to learn how to use blockchain, they just need to connect.Extremely high interaction frequency:
An Agent can perform thousands of transactions per day — equivalent to a small community of users.Real demand, not speculation:
Every transaction of an Agent is for practical purposes: accessing models, purchasing data, renting computation — completely different from the speculative behavior or short-term trading of traditional users.
This makes an AI Agent equivalent to the value of hundreds of regular Web3 users.
4. SOMI – The heart of Somnia's economy
Every activity of an AI Agent on Somnia consumes SOMI, simultaneously making this token the center of the ecosystem.
Every time an API call, task execution, or data transaction occurs — SOMI is used as a fee and a portion is burned.
50% of SOMI is permanently destroyed, the remaining 50% is rewarded to validators to maintain the network.
As the number of Agents increases, the rate of SOMI burning will increase exponentially, creating natural deflationary pressure.
Compared to human users (few, non-continuous transactions), AI Agents operate 24/7, making this token burning mechanism much more powerful and sustainable.
5. The scale of the AI + Web3 market
According to forecasts for 2025, the global AI application market will exceed 3 trillion USD, of which more than 15% is related to API services and micro-payments.
If only a small part of this market shifts to using blockchain infrastructure — Somnia will be right at the center of that wave.
Assuming:
There are 1 million AI Agents operating on Somnia
Each Agent averages 1,000 transactions/day
Each transaction costs 0.001 USD in SOMI value
→ The total amount of SOMI burned each day is equivalent to 1 million USD.
This figure not only reinforces the token's value but also reflects the true scale of the on-chain Agent economy.
6. Potential application scenarios
Somnia could become the default platform for many types of AI Agents:
🧠 AI Marketplace: Model Providers list services, users and Agents can rent and pay transparently.
💹 Trading Agent: Agents deploy automated trading strategies, leveraging the extremely low speed and cost of Somnia.
💬 AI Customer Support: An AI system supports users with data and fees transparently recorded on-chain.
📊 Data Sharing Network: Agents publish, buy, and validate data directly on Somnia, opening up a decentralized data economy.
7. Challenges to be addressed
The explosion of Agents also raises many big questions:
Can the network withstand the huge transaction volume from millions of Agents?
Can the SOMI fee mechanism balance between human users and automated Agents?
And the issues of legal, AI data privacy — can blockchain be flexible enough to accommodate?
These questions will be the measure to validate Somnia's vision in the next 12 months.
8. Conclusion: Somnia – The native operating system for the AI economy
Somnia is not simply a high-performance blockchain. It is shaping itself as the 'Operating System' for the decentralized AI world.
When Agents become actual users — tireless, limitless, always connected — the value of the network will no longer depend on the number of users, but on the computational scale and transactions it maintains.
If Somnia can attract 1 million stable AI Agents, this project will not only be a 'new public chain' but will become the core infrastructure of the on-chain AI economy, where artificial intelligence and blockchain ultimately merge. $SOMI