Somnia, the Layer-1 blockchain built for high-demand consumer apps, has released its roadmap for moving the conventional gaming sector onchain. Its plan relies on merging its 400K TPS network for high-performance games with a $10M grant program to enhance web3 gaming.
Record benchmarks performed on the Somnia devnet has demonstrated that the planned mainnet has the speed and scalability necessary to mainstream web3 gaming. The Layer-1’s architecture is perfectly suited to hosting GameFi apps, where actions may be recorded onchain without compromising the playing experience.
With sub-second finality and the ability to handle over 400,000 transactions per second (tps), Somnia is the most efficient and economical EVM Layer-1 blockchain. Higher transaction throughput and sub-second block certainty are achieved using Somnia’s novel multi-stream consensus technology. High-density situations are handled well by sequential execution and compression methods, which increase the quantity of data sent between nodes by 10–20 times.
With read/write speeds of 70–100 nanoseconds, the custom database IceDB lowers transaction costs to less than a cent. Because of this, Somnia is the perfect platform for creating massive, real-time apps in a variety of industries, including gaming, social media, the metaverse, finance, and more. These applications will serve millions of users on-chain and increase the efficiency of EVM beyond all previous levels.
Somnia has been tailored for hosting reactive online games that respond to both real world and on-chain data. Reactive apps provide smooth event-driven interactions directly on the blockchain, removing the need for third-party services. With conventional blockchains, enabling reactive flows like paying players for completing a quest or triggering game events needs off-chain components, which raises complexity, costs, and undermines decentralization.
By adding native support for events, timers, and verifiable randomness straight into the blockchain, developers may build reactive apps fully on-chain. This streamlines development, boosts security, cuts costs, and maintains decentralization. These advancements offer prospects for dynamic, real-time applications such as gaming, predictive markets, and event-driven advertising.
400k+ TPS, sub-second finality, and sub-cent fees will help developers to push the frontiers of what’s possible in web3 gaming. This will permit the creation of powerful new games combining stunning graphics and huge virtual worlds, all completely recorded onchain. Somnia’s L1 lays the scene for these experiences by addressing the needs of real-time games with reactive features.
Somnia founder Paul Thomas said:
Somnia’s scalability not only allows for high throughput that can accommodate millions of players at once, but it also removes gas wars and expensive fees, making gaming accessible to both developers and players. Somnia’s in-house engineers, including the core development, dapp, and game development teams, will also be available to developers for assistance.
GameFi developers will have the resources they need to realize their ideas thanks to Somnia’s $10M Grant Program. It completes the jigsaw, enabling the Somnia ecosystem to support a new generation of advanced onchain games with infinite scalability.
