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New York, New York, January 15th, 2025, Chainwire

Somnia, the Layer-1 blockchain designed for high-demand consumer applications, has unveiled its blueprint for bringing the traditional gaming world onchain. Its strategy centers around combining its 400K TPS network for high-performance games with a $10M grant program to accelerate web3 gaming.

Record benchmarks achieved on the Somnia devnet has proven that its forthcoming mainnet has the speed and scalability required to mainstream web3 gaming. The Layer-1’s architecture is optimally suited to hosting GameFi applications, where actions can be recorded onchain without impairing the playing experience.

Somnia has been optimized for hosting reactive online games that respond to both real world and on-chain data. Reactive applications enable seamless event-driven interactions directly on the blockchain, eliminating the need for third-party services. With conventional blockchains, creating reactive flows like rewarding players for completing a quest or triggering game events requires off-chain components, which increases complexity, costs, and compromises decentralization. 

By integrating native support for events, timers, and verifiable randomness directly into the blockchain, developers can build reactive applications entirely on-chain. This simplifies development, enhances security, reduces costs, and preserves decentralization. These improvements unlock opportunities for dynamic, real-time applications such as games, predictive markets, and event-driven advertising.

400k+ TPS, sub-second finality, and sub-cent fees will allow developers to push the boundaries of what’s possible in web3 gaming. This will support the creation of powerful new games combining immersive graphics and expansive virtual worlds, all fully recorded onchain. Somnia’s L1 forms the stage for these experiences by meeting the demands of real-time games with reactive features. 

Somnia founder Paul Thomas said:  “Blockchain gaming has been held back by technical limitations for too long. With Somnia, we’re giving developers the tools they need to create real-time, scalable games that players will love. This is the start of a new chapter for web3 gaming.”

In addition to high throughput that will support millions of players simultaneously, Somnia’s scalability eliminates gas wars and high fees, making gaming affordable for developers and players. Developers will also have access to Somnia’s in-house engineers for support, including the core development, dapp, and game development teams.

Somnia’s $10M Grant Program will furnish GameFi developers with the resources to turn their ideas into reality. It forms the final piece of the puzzle, making the Somnia ecosystem capable of powering a new wave of sophisticated onchain games that scale without limits.

About Somnia

Somnia is the fastest and most cost-effective EVM Layer-1 blockchain, capable of processing over 400,000 transactions per second (tps) with sub-second finality. Somnia’s new multi-stream consensus technology achieves sub-second block certainty and higher transaction throughput. Sequential execution and compression algorithms effectively handle high-density scenarios, increasing the amount of data transferred between nodes by 10-20x.

The custom database IceDB achieves 70-100 nanosecond read/write times, reducing transaction costs to less than a penny. This makes Somnia an ideal platform for building large-scale, real-time applications in games, social, metaverse, finance, and other fields, serving millions of users, all on-chain, making EVM more efficient than ever before.

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