At the beginning of 2026, Somnia made a bold decision. We shifted our focus from gaming and metaverse towards DeFi, prediction markets and agent-native applications.
Seven months later, that strategy has moved from plan to a product ecosystem built on the tech that we set out to ship. dreamDEX is live and growing, Prophecy Social has been used by 33.1K users, USDso now serves as the ecosystem stablecoin, and SomniaLend has been integrated as a core credit hub within the Somnia ecosystem. Somnia Agents and Reactivity are live, and the network continues to provide the speed and capacity these products require.
The results have strengthened conviction in Somnia’s direction. Investors, team members, launch partners and advisors are backing the strategy with action, extending their $SOMI vesting by nine months.
The first unlock for these allocations will move from 2 September 2026 to 2 June 2027. There will be no early contributor token unlock on 2 September 2026.
A bold move towards new opportunity
Somnia was originally built to support high-throughput gaming and metaverse applications. The infrastructure however was better suited to DeFi and agent-native applications, where demand for high-performance onchain systems was growing.
The chain itself did not change. The performance developed for large-scale consumer applications is exactly what high-volume trading venues, prediction markets and autonomous onchain agents need: fast execution, low latency and significant onchain capacity.
Same chain, new focus.
Achievements since the repositioning
The early results show the direction taking shape across the ecosystem:
dreamDEX has processed more than $120 million in spot trading volume, averaging approximately $2.8 million per day. Since launch, it has reached peak 10.2K monthly active traders, and 95% of orders are placed within 24.4 ms. Spot markets and Event Contracts are live, with perpetual markets next on the roadmap.
Prophecy Social has been used by 33.1K users, with 63% returning each month, and has recorded 1.3 million predictions, including 173K in the past 30 days.
USDso is live on mainnet and serves as the key quote asset across dreamDEX markets.
SomniaLend has been repositioned as a core part of Somnia’s credit infrastructure, supporting borrowing and lending today while becoming a key component of the network’s future DeFi ecosystem.
Somnia Agents and Reactivity were delivered to mainnet in April, making Somnia the first L1 with native onchain Reactivity and bringing deterministic, consensus-validated AI onchain.
The network has demonstrated 1.05 million transactions per second and delivers sub-500 millisecond finality on mainnet.
Building for DeFi users and traders who value onchain performance
Somnia’s next phase is focused on building onchain infrastructure for DeFi users through transparent, non-custodial venues that deliver fast execution, deeper liquidity, and access to a broader range of markets and trading strategies.
For builders, it means giving them the technology to build new applications across DeFi, prediction markets and AI. Their activity and feedback will continue to shape what gets built next.
The $SOMI re-lock
The performance and growth delivered since Somnia’s repositioning have reinforced long-term confidence in the network’s direction and early contributors are committing to an additional nine months of lock-in, moving the first unlock from 2 September 2026 to 2 June 2027.
Under the previous schedule, the September cliff would have released 127.4 million SOMI, representing 12.7% of the total token supply. That is no longer the case.
The revised schedules are:
Team: the cliff moves to month 21, followed by linear vesting through month 57.
Launch Partners: the cliff moves to month 21, followed by linear vesting through month 57.
Investors: the cliff moves to month 21, followed by linear vesting through month 45.
Advisors: the cliff moves to month 21, followed by linear vesting through month 45.
The vesting schedules for the Foundation and Community allocations remain unchanged.
Underneath this growing ecosystem activity is a protocol-level burn mechanism. Transactions across Somnia consume gas, and 50% of every gas fee is permanently burned. As usage grows across trading, prediction markets, credit and agent-native applications, the amount of $SOMI burned increases with it.
The next phase of Somnia
Somnia’s next phase centres on three connected priorities: DeFi, prediction markets and onchain credit.
“We are building with one goal in mind: to make it irrational to compete” - Peter Lipka, CEO
Our role is to help ecosystem products and teams scale. That means backing dreamDEX as it adds perpetual markets and develops a sub-10-millisecond central limit order book on its path towards becoming a top-10 DEX by volume. It also means supporting Prophecy and the broader prediction-market ecosystem being built around it, with Somnia Agents enabling new onchain experiences.
To Conclude
There will be no team, launch partner, investor or advisor SOMI unlock on 2 September 2026.
The first unlock for these allocations is now scheduled for 2 June 2027.
The total $SOMI supply remains unchanged at 1 billion tokens.
We look forward to the next phase of growth and thank our investors, partners and community for their support.