Insights
Research and perspectives on onchain markets
Explainers, research, frequently asked questions and news from Somnia on market structure, oracles, agents and the infrastructure underneath them.
How the Somnia Oracle resolves a question
From a natural-language question to an immutable onchain answer in minutes: the Somnia Oracle's lifecycle, step by step.
Agents inside consensus: how Somnia Agents work
Somnia Agents let smart contracts call APIs, read websites and run deterministic AI models, with results agreed by a validator subcommittee and every step receipted.
Why matching belongs onchain
Where an exchange matches orders decides who you have to trust. A look at the trust models in today's order-book venues, and why Somnia puts the matching engine in a smart contract.
What is an onchain order book?
A plain-language introduction to central limit order books, price-time priority, and what changes when the book runs on a blockchain.