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Is the high-performance public chain "newbie" Somnia a technological dark horse backed by giants or just a marketing bubble?

On September 2, the L1 Somnia, boasting a million-level TPS, announced the launch of its mainnet and stated that it completed 10 billion transactions on the testnet. Its native token SOMI also simultaneously listed on mainstream exchanges like Gate.io. Behind the project is the British unicorn company Improbable, along with indirect support from top-tier capital such as SoftBank and a16z. Is this a potential stock temporarily underestimated by the market, or a carefully packaged marketing feast?
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The choice of Somnia after multiple transformations is not a grassroots narrative crypto project; the developing company behind it, Improbable, has a significant background. Improbable is a UK company founded in 2012 by several graduates from Cambridge University. The company's early business direction was distributed cloud computing platforms, and with its core product SpatialOS, Improbable secured a massive $500 million funding round led by SoftBank in 2017, becoming the largest funding ever for a UK startup at the time. In 2019, Improbable also signed a contract with the UK Ministry of Defence to apply its technology in military simulation, which was even utilized in Ukraine's defense. Its founder, Herman Narula, was subsequently sanctioned by Russia. In 2022, with the rise of the metaverse concept, the company shifted its focus to providing solutions for metaverse companies. However, the company consistently struggled to find a profitable path. It wasn't until 2023, after another transformation, that it positioned itself as a "Venture Builder," focusing on incubating startups in artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the metaverse, and achieved annual profitability for the first time that year. Somnia is an important project under this new "Venture Builder" model, with core technology development handled by Improbable.
Paul Thomas, the founder of Somnia, previously worked at Goldman Sachs. According to official information, Somnia will receive a committed investment of $270 million. However, this $270 million is not directly invested by institutions such as a16z, SoftBank, Mirana, SIG, but is funded by Improbable, M², and the Virtual Society Foundation.

Is a million-level TPS strength or illusion?
Of course, the most eye-catching label of Somnia is undoubtedly its claimed "million-level TPS". The high performance of Somnia mainly relies on two core technological innovations: the MultiStream Consensus ( and Accelerated Sequential Execution ). In simple terms, the innovation of the MultiStream Consensus mechanism is that traditional blockchains are like a single-lane road where all transactions have to queue up for processing, easily causing congestion. Somnia has transformed this road into a highway with numerous lanes. Under this mechanism, each validator runs its own independent "data chain" and can package transaction blocks in parallel and asynchronously without waiting for consensus across the entire network. Meanwhile, an independent "consensus chain" inspects all data chains at a very high frequency (for example, every 20 milliseconds), synchronizing and finalizing their states. This "diversion and aggregation" design resolves the single-point congestion issue and achieves very high throughput. The difference in Accelerated Sequential Execution compared to traditional public chains is that many high-performance public chains use "parallel execution" solutions that can lead to performance degradation when processing large amounts of related transactions (such as popular NFT minting) due to state contention. The key to Somnia is compiling EVM bytecode into highly optimized native machine code, allowing transaction execution speeds to approach that of native code written in high-performance languages like C++. This means that even if transactions are processed sequentially, they can be fast enough to handle high-concurrency scenarios, effectively avoiding the troubles of state contention. From a technical perspective, Somnia's technical architecture has certain engineering innovations. However, the promotion of "million TPS" carries a clear element of "conceptual substitution". Somnia officially admits that the figure of 1 million TPS was achieved under ideal conditions in the developer network by executing a very small computational amount ERC-20 transfer operation. Such testing cannot represent the network load when running complex applications in the real world.

Overall, Somnia is a project with very distinct advantages and disadvantages. The positive aspect is that the performance advantages brought by Somnia's technical architecture could make it the next fastest public chain, and it has the backing of capital giants like a16z, SoftBank, and Temasek, suggesting it has the potential to become a dark horse in the public chain space.

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