Insights

Somnia is the market infrastructure for onchain finance, an EVM-compatible Layer 1 network and a set of open protocols (Somnia Markets, the Somnia Oracle, Somnia Agents, Reactivity, USDso and Somnia Lend) for building financial markets that run entirely onchain, with services from the Somnia team to help clients design, launch and grow them.

Somnia Markets is the shared market layer: an onchain central limit order book and matching engine, implemented as smart contracts, that supports spot, perpetual and event markets. Venues such as dreamDEX are built on it and share its books and liquidity.

Yes. Somnia runs standard EVM bytecode, so Solidity contracts, wallets and tools such as Foundry, Hardhat, viem and ethers work unchanged. Mainnet chain ID is 5031.

Somnia has demonstrated over 1 million transactions per second, produces a block every 100 ms and reaches finality in under 500 ms on mainnet.

A proof-of-stake validator set that includes Google Cloud. Every validator also runs Cuthbert, an independent shadow implementation that halts the node on any divergence. The L1 and its consensus were audited by Hacken.

Yes. BitGo, Fireblocks and Ledger support Somnia, including the SOMI token. Trading on Somnia Markets is self-custodial: assets stay in user-controlled accounts until settlement.

No. Somnia Markets charges no protocol fee; participants pay gas only. Venues built on Somnia Markets set their own fees, and dreamDEX currently charges zero maker and taker fees.

Today, yes. Native gas sponsorship, coming soon, lets a venue or wallet cover its users' gas, so they trade without first acquiring SOMI. Session keys remove the prompts in between.

Somnia prices state access by its real latency. Reading a value no transaction has touched recently costs 1,000,000 gas, while recently accessed state carries no extra charge. Busy contracts, like an active order book, are usually cached.

Only under sustained congestion. Validators vote the base price up when execution falls behind and straight back to the 6 gwei floor when it catches up. It can never exceed 100,000 gwei.

There is nothing to enable or claim. Accounts that use enough gas over a rolling window of about 80 minutes are discounted automatically from the next epoch. The discount appears in each receipt's effective gas price.

Each request carries a small deposit that pays the validators who run it, priced per validator by agent type. Unspent deposit is refunded. Gas for the transaction is charged as normal.

No. A venue is a branded front door onto Somnia's shared order books. Matching, settlement and oracles run as smart contracts, and traders keep their own assets. There is no engine, sequencer or database for you to operate.

You set a venue fee on the activity your users bring. Every Somnia protocol lets builders add their own fee, and the venue fee is paid to your address in the same transaction as the trade. Somnia charges no protocol fee and takes no share.

No. Venues share the same books, so a new venue opens onto existing liquidity. For new markets you can bring your own market makers or use Somnia's market-making service. Shared Liquidity Vaults are coming soon.

Yes. With Managed Venues, the Somnia team designs, builds and launches a venue for any asset class under your brand, and supports you after launch with whatever you need. Market making from the Somnia team is available on request.

Yes. A venue can be open to everyone or limited to an allow-list, for example for a regulated or invitation-only venue. The rules are set onchain and are visible to anyone.

A wallet and the Somnia Markets SDK. You register the venue, set its fee and choose who can trade with the SDK, testing on the Global testnet first. The Venue Kit, with a front-end template and a single CLI flow from testnet to mainnet, is coming soon.

No. Somnia Markets charges no protocol fee. Traders pay network gas, and venues set whatever fees they choose.

Traders hold their own assets until a trade settles. Settlement happens onchain. Institutions that need qualified custody can use providers that support Somnia, including BitGo and Fireblocks.

Yes. The order book, the matching and the settlement are smart contracts on the Somnia L1. No offchain engine or central sequencer decides the order of trades.

Yes. Access policy belongs to the venue. dreamDEX, for example, offers event contracts in permitted jurisdictions only.

Somnia produces 100 ms blocks and finalises in under a second on mainnet. dreamDEX reports that 95% of orders are placed within 24.4 ms.

Ordering is set by deterministic consensus rules, not by a sequencer or block proposer choosing transactions. Nobody in the middle can reorder a trade to profit from it.

dreamDEX offers REST and WebSocket APIs, CCXT, a CLI and MCP-native endpoints. Somnia Markets contracts can also be called directly from any language.

No. Matching and settlement run as smart contracts on Somnia. Your product places orders and shows state.

Orders carry builder-fee fields, so the interface that routed a trade is paid when it fills.

Yes. Session-key accounts, built on EIP-7702, let users trade without a wallet prompt for each action, and native gas sponsorship, coming soon, removes gas from the first trade.

Minutes. At resolution time, Somnia Reactivity wakes the oracle, agent committees read the sources, and the answer is posted onchain. There is no dispute window.

The question is voided. A voided market pays out on a defined basis; on dreamDEX event contracts, each side redeems at 0.50.

Yes. Venues can attach a policy that gates access by allowlist, token holding or KYC.

Spot markets on Somnia Markets quote against USDso, Somnia's native stablecoin, issued and operated by Frax.

Yes. Assets can be bridged in through LayerZero-based routes, Relay and LI.FI, then paired on Somnia Markets.

No. The Agents JSON API agent can read an existing endpoint without any change on the provider's side.

A subcommittee of validators runs each request independently. Results are agreed by majority or threshold consensus and come with signed execution receipts.

Stork and Protofire provide price data on Somnia. Protofire also operates Chainlink VRF v2.5.

No. Somnia Markets is a central limit order book with price-time priority. Liquidity rests as limit orders, not in a pricing curve.

Somnia Price Feeds supplies index, mark and oracle prices with manipulation controls.

Network gas only. There is no protocol fee, and venues set their own trading fees. dreamDEX charges none.

The Somnia Oracle. Committees of AI agents read the named sources inside Somnia consensus, and the answer is aggregated onchain with per-source receipts.

Availability is set by each venue. dreamDEX offers event contracts in early access, in permitted jurisdictions only.

Numeric answers use the median and discrete answers use a majority. If a question cannot be resolved, it is voided.

Somnia Lend is Somnia's onchain credit engine. Users supply assets to earn yield and borrow against collateral.

Yes. USDso can be supplied on Somnia Lend.

Somnia Reactivity lets contracts subscribe to events, such as a price update, and react to them in the same block.

The LLM Inference agent runs with fixed seeds and zero temperature. A validator subcommittee runs each job, and the result is accepted by majority or threshold consensus.

Base agents are priced per call in SOMI: 0.03 for a JSON API request, 0.07 for LLM inference and 0.10 for parsing a website.

Yes. Agents use the same SDK, APIs and contracts as any other trader, and dreamDEX offers MCP-native endpoints.

It is coming soon. Join the waitlist and we will tell you when it opens.

The first list will be published before launch. Until then, both are TBC.

Somnia Agents observe the transfer, the Somnia Validator Network agrees it happened, and a signed receipt is recorded on Somnia.

Release on Somnia is final in under a second once attested. Time on the source chain varies; estimates TBC.

An agent fee for attestation plus Somnia gas. Amounts are TBC and shown before you sign.

Yes. With Reactivity, a contract can act on an arriving transfer in the same block.

Dedicated RPC is not yet available. Join the waitlist and the team will contact you when capacity opens in your region. Launch date TBC.

The public endpoint at api.infra.mainnet.somnia.network is shared by all network users. Dedicated nodes will serve only your traffic, in the region you choose, behind your own allow-list.

Only the RPC URL changes. Foundry, Hardhat, viem and ethers will work as they do today, and the chain ID remains 5031.

Standard Ethereum JSON-RPC, WebSocket subscriptions and Somnia’s realtime_sendRawTransaction will be supported. Archive and trace methods are TBC.

Pricing is TBC. Gas applies to every transaction you send, as it does on any Somnia endpoint.