Dreamathon's First Class of Founders Shows What’s Possible With Somnia

Ten projects have emerged as the first class of Dreamathon winners!

After three months of intensive workshops, milestone check-ins, and project refinements, the first cohort of the Somnia x Cracked Labs Dreamathon Incubator has reached its conclusion. The program was designed to identify, fund, and accelerate teams building reactive applications on Somnia, and the results have exceeded all expectations.

Ten projects have emerged as the first class of Dreamathon winners.

What makes Dreamathon different from other incubators is its focus on real-time, reactive applications that can only exist on infrastructure like Somnia. The program operated in partnership with Supafund, whose AI-driven intake and milestone scoring helped ensure that only the most committed and capable teams made it through the process. The teams that completed Dreamathon demonstrated consistent progress across multiple checkpoints, refined their ideas based on feedback, and built working prototypes that showcase what’s possible when you remove the usual blockchain limitations.

Here are the ten teams that will be shaping the Somnia ecosystem in the months ahead:

LIKWID

DeFi has always struggled with long-tail assets. While major tokens have robust trading infrastructure with deep liquidity and sophisticated derivatives, smaller tokens often lack even basic shorting mechanisms. LIKWID addresses this gap directly by building a fully permissionless, oracle-free margin trading and lending protocol.

The oracle-free design is particularly significant because it eliminates one of the most common attack vectors in DeFi. Traditional lending protocols rely on external price feeds that can be manipulated during periods of volatility or through flash loan attacks. By removing this dependency, LIKWID creates a more resilient system that can operate autonomously regardless of external conditions. This kind of infrastructure is essential for Somnia’s ecosystem as it expands into more sophisticated financial applications.

BALL3

Gaming on Somnia isn’t limited to complex MMOs or strategy titles. Sometimes the most compelling experiences are deceptively simple. BALL3 takes the addictive core gameplay of Agar.io and brings it fully onchain, creating a real-time PvP experience where players compete to outmaneuver opponents, grow their ball, and survive as long as possible.

The game demonstrates something important about Somnia’s capabilities. Real-time competitive multiplayer requires extremely low latency and high throughput because every player action needs to be processed and broadcast to all participants simultaneously. On most blockchains, this kind of gameplay would be impossible due to confirmation times measured in seconds rather than fractions of a second. BALL3 works on Somnia because the network can handle the rapid state changes that competitive gaming demands.

Valmira

Market making has traditionally been the domain of sophisticated trading firms with proprietary infrastructure and deep pockets. Valmira democratizes this by providing any token with professional-grade market-making bots and liquidity tools through a non-custodial, self-serve platform. Projects can set up their own market-making strategies in minutes without hidden fees, forced custody arrangements, or opaque deals.

The non-custodial aspect matters enormously here. Many existing market-making services require projects to hand over their tokens or treasury funds, creating counterparty risk and potential conflicts of interest. Valmira’s approach keeps projects in control of their assets while still providing the liquidity infrastructure they need to build healthy trading markets.

Bitredict

Prediction markets exploded in popularity over the past year, with platforms processing billions of dollars in volume around political and economic events. Bitredict takes this model further by building a real-time prediction market with a focus on accuracy-based rewards. The platform creates the world’s first permissionless ecosystem where anyone can become a market maker and profit from their forecasting abilities.

What distinguishes Bitredict from existing prediction markets is its emphasis on rewarding genuine predictive skill rather than just capital deployment. The accuracy-based mechanics create incentives for participants to develop real expertise in specific domains, which in turn generates more useful information for everyone using the platform.

Packara

Crypto investing has always suffered from friction. Building a diversified portfolio typically requires multiple transactions across different platforms, each with its own gas fees and approval processes. Packara solves this by offering curated, one-click portfolios that bundle tokens, liquidity positions, and yield strategies into a single transaction.

The efficiency gains here are substantial. Instead of executing dozens of individual swaps and deposits, users can achieve the same result with one action. This reduces gas costs significantly while also saving time and reducing the cognitive load of managing multiple positions. For Somnia, where transaction costs are already minimal, Packara makes sophisticated portfolio strategies accessible to users who might otherwise stick with simpler approaches.

Derad Network

Some of the most interesting applications of blockchain technology have nothing to do with finance. Derad Network is building a decentralized network of ground stations that map the sky, solving the problem of limited global airspace coverage. By incentivizing a distributed ADS-B network, Derad expands real-time aircraft tracking to underserved areas that current commercial systems don’t cover well.

This project represents the true potential of decentralized infrastructure. Commercial aircraft tracking networks are concentrated in wealthy regions with dense air traffic, leaving large portions of the globe with spotty or nonexistent coverage. A blockchain-based incentive system can coordinate contributions from participants anywhere in the world, filling gaps that centralized providers have no economic motivation to address.

Burnie AI

Content creation is exhausting. The constant pressure to produce, engage, and scale can burn out even the most dedicated creators. Burnie is built specifically for creators who want to grow their audience without destroying their mental health in the process. The platform provides AI-driven tools that help creators earn passively by leveraging autonomous agents that handle routine tasks and engagement.

These agents function as collaborators rather than simple automation tools. They can maintain consistent engagement with audiences, handle routine communications, and scale operations in ways that would be impossible for a single human creator. By offloading these responsibilities, Burnie allows creators to focus on the creative work itself while the platform handles the growth infrastructure.

Peridot Finance

Cross-chain interactions remain one of the most friction-filled experiences in crypto. Users who want to access opportunities on different networks typically need to bridge assets manually, waiting for confirmations and paying multiple transaction fees along the way. Peridot Finance streamlines this process through a Hub and Spoke architecture that enables users to deposit collateral on one chain and borrow on another seamlessly.

The architecture is elegant in its simplicity. Rather than requiring users to move assets between chains themselves, Peridot manages the cross-chain coordination behind the scenes. Users interact with a single interface while the protocol handles the complexity of maintaining positions across multiple networks. This kind of abstraction layer is essential for bringing more mainstream users into DeFi.

Carbon Opus

The music industry has been particularly slow to adopt blockchain technology despite being one of the sectors that could benefit most from decentralized ownership and direct creator-to-fan relationships. Carbon Opus builds a platform that gives artists true ownership of their work, direct connection with fans, and AI-powered tools to scale their careers.

The platform introduces creator coins that allow fans to invest directly in artists they believe in, creating aligned incentives between creators and their communities. When an artist succeeds, everyone who supported them early benefits as well. This model inverts the traditional music industry structure where intermediaries capture most of the value while artists and fans get the scraps.

DPay

Mass adoption of crypto payments has been held back by fragmentation. Every wallet has its own interface, every chain has its own requirements, and merchants have no simple way to accept payments from the entire ecosystem. DPay aggregates all of this complexity into a standard QR code that works with any wallet, making crypto payments as simple as they should have been from the start.

Beyond the payment mechanism itself, DPay introduces instant onchain rewards that actually belong to customers. Unlike traditional loyalty programs where points exist in proprietary databases controlled by merchants, DPay rewards are tokens that users own and can use however they want. This brings real-world fiat reward mechanics onchain in a way that benefits consumers rather than locking them into specific platforms.

Dream On

The end of this pilot program marks the beginning of a big journey for these projects. Each of these teams now has funding, mentorship connections, and a place in the Somnia ecosystem as they continue building. The diversity of projects that emerged from Dreamathon demonstrates the range of applications that become possible when blockchain performance stops being a constraint.

From DeFi protocols and prediction markets to gaming, music platforms, aircraft tracking, and payment infrastructure, these teams are exploring territory that previous blockchain generations couldn’t access. They’re building real-time applications that respond to user actions instantly, process data at the scale required for consumer adoption, and create value through participation rather than speculation.

Dreamathon will return in 2026 with another cohort of builders ready to push the boundaries of what’s possible onchain. For founders interested in building on infrastructure that removes the traditional constraints of blockchain development, the next round of applications will open soon.