What is Somnia?
Somnia is a high-performance, cost-efficient EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain capable of processing over 1,000,000 transactions per second (TPS) with sub-second finality. It is suitable for serving millions of users and building real-time mass-consumer applications like games, social applications, metaverses, and more, all fully on-chain.Key Features
- Ultra-High Performance: Capable of processing over 1,000,000 TPS with sub-second finality
- EVM-Compatible: Full compatibility with Ethereum smart contracts and tooling
- Mass-Consumer Focus: Designed for real-time applications serving millions of users
- Cost-Efficient: Optimized for high-throughput, low-cost transactions
- Gaming & Metaverse Ready: Specialized infrastructure for gaming and metaverse applications
- Social Applications: Built to support large-scale social platforms and applications
Performance Benchmarks
- 1,050,000 TPS: Achieved with ERC-20 transfers between several hundred thousand accounts
- 50,000 Uniswaps per second: Running Uniswap V3 with several hundred thousand accounts trading one LP pool
- 300,000 NFT mints per second: Supporting 100,000 accounts minting NFTs simultaneously
Ecosystem Highlights
- High-performance infrastructure for mass-consumer applications
- Gaming and metaverse platform capabilities
- Social application support at scale
- Real-time transaction processing
- Support for various application types including:
- Games
- Social applications
- Metaverses
- Real-time consumer applications
- High-throughput DeFi protocols
Data on Dune
Raw Data
Access to raw blockchain data including blocks, transactions, logs, and traces
Decoded Data
Human-readable contract interactions and events