In 2025, the blockchain world is at a crossroads. One direction goes deeper into finance: more DeFi protocols, yield farming, arbitrage strategies. The other opens up a broader perspective: Web3 becomes a space of digital presence, of creativity, of identity and sustainable digital memories. Somnia is the pioneer project on this second path.
The difference of @Somnia Official is not in the TPS race or token price multiplier. The bigger ambition: to become the infrastructure for virtual societies - where people enter, bring their identities, build culture and memories.
Architecture redefined
While most EVM chains only improve incrementally (rollup, zk, sharding…), Somnia chooses to “re-architecture”.
IceDB: real-time state database, storing memories, interactions, items.
MultiStream Consensus: optimizes parallel interaction, allowing hundreds of people to work together in a virtual space.
Compiled smart contracts: shorten processing lines, create new speeds.
These changes make avatars, buildings, quests, or social relationships not just tokens, but rather durable onchain objects that can be paired and evolved over time.
Mainnet – From Promise to Reality
On September 2, 2025, #Somnia mainnet officially launched. Not just a token listing, but an ecosystem launch: onchain games, dev tools, interactive avatars, interoperability testing. The community responded immediately: players participated in events, studios released content, creators tested social spaces.
Unlike many chains that only become active at launch and then "lose their mood", Somnia proves that usage is tied to culture and experience, not just speculative cash flow.
Opportunities & challenges
The market enthusiasm is reflected in $SOMI – post-listing boom, then correction due to unlocking and profit-taking pressure. The tokenomics are quite cleverly designed: 50% gas burn fee, staking tied to node operation, clear creator rewards. However, the prerequisite is that usage must be really high.
Current weaknesses? Somnia doesn’t have many “iconic” applications outside the crypto community—a large-scale sandbox game, a virtual music event, or a pop culture creation tool. If it wants to become a “digital home,” it needs to create cultural touchpoints that even the average person will find appealing.
Strategic moves
Somnia quickly laid the foundations for both a community and an organization:
BitGo: Bringing Institutional Grade Custody Solutions, Opening the Door to Large Capital.
Google Cloud: become a validator, support AI infrastructure, real-time data, security.
EMERGE Group: a bridge to the Southeast Asian gaming & esports market.
Somnia Builder (in collaboration with Sequence): a no-code toolkit that helps developers and creators easily build games, avatars, and virtual onchain economies.
These moves show that Somnia is not only targeting gamers, but also businesses, studios, and financial institutions.
Future direction
To change “infrastructure” to “society”, Somnia had to prove four things:
Easy-to-use, versatile creative tools: from avatars, fashion to AI agents.
Retention: players come back, creators have sustainable income, virtual world evolves.
Social Governance: not just voting on technical specifications, but deciding on avatar rights, digital memories, community norms.
Interoperability: both technical (data standards, rendering) and social (identity, reputation across the world).
If successful, the value Somnia creates will go beyond financial: time, memories, relationships, identity. It’s the “stickiness” that keeps a community together and hard to leave.
Conclude
Somnia isn’t building blockchain for speculation, it’s building it as a foundation for digital civilization. Every step of the way – from IceDB, to MultiStream, to Somnia Builder – revolves around one philosophy: the future Internet isn’t about logging in, it’s about living in.
If it can maintain its creative rhythm, engaged community, and booming digital culture, Somnia could become the home of Web3, where value is not just capital, but experiences, memories, and identities. $SOMI