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Somnia is designed to solve the pervasive issue of high transaction fees in Web3. Its ability to offer fees below $0.01 is not a short-term promotion but is fundamentally built upon a series of advanced technological innovations and a sustainable economic model.
The table below breaks down the core technologies and mechanisms that enable Somnia's low-cost environment.
🔑 Feature 🚀 How It Enables Low Fees & High Performance
MultiStream Consensus Decouples transaction data production from global consensus. Each validator processes transactions on its own chain in parallel, drastically increasing overall network throughput and reducing congestion-based fee spikes.
Accelerated Sequential Execution Translates EVM bytecode into highly optimized native machine code. This allows a single core to process transactions at immense speeds, making the network highly efficient and cost-effective to operate.
IceDB A custom-built database engine optimized for deterministic, low-latency read/write operations. This ensures that the storage layer does not become a bottleneck during high network activity.
Dynamic Gas Pricing Implements a gas model where the price per unit decreases by up to 90% for applications with high transaction volume (over 400 TPS). The base gas price is also dynamically adjusted based on network load.
Fee Burn Mechanism 50% of all transaction fees are permanently burned. This creates a deflationary pressure on the SOMI token, which can help balance the economics of the network even when fees are kept very low.
Low fees fundamentally change how users can interact with Web3 applications. Somnia's sub-second finality and sub-cent fees enable use cases that are impractical on many other networks:
· Microtransactions: You can buy, sell, or trade low-value items like small NFTs or virtual goods without the fee overshadowing the purchase price.
· Frequent Interactions: You can freely engage in activities like staking, unstaking, or playing games that require numerous on-chain actions throughout the day without accumulating significant costs.
· Mass-Market Applications: This environment is crucial for supporting real-time, high-throughput applications like fully on-chain games, interactive metaverses, and live social networks that aim to onboard millions of users.
🌐 Project Background
Somnia is a high-performance, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain that launched its mainnet in late 2024. It was created by the Virtual Society Foundation and is backed by notable companies and investors like Improbable, a16z, and SoftBank. The project's explicit goal is to provide the infrastructure for a "virtual society" capable of hosting mass-consumer applications.
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