The First Wave of AI and DeFi Projects Building on Somnia

The intersection of AI and blockchain is one of the most interesting and promising places to be these days, and Somnia’s unmatched speed and scalability make it the perfect infrastructure for bringing AI on-chain at scale. With Somnia’s 1M+ TPS, sub-second finality, and sub-cent fees, these projects are able to develop new use cases and create applications that we could only dream of in the past. 

Over the past few months, Somnia has been starting to build out its DeFi and AI ecosystems with a growing lineup of protocols and applications that are leveraging its performance capabilities to create a user-experience that is not possible anywhere else. Today, we’re highlighting some of the first DeFi and AI projects to start building on Somnia, and sharing a bit about what you can expect from them.  

Standard Protocol: Fully On-Chain CLOB and DeFi Stack

Standard Protocol offers a full suite of advanced trading tools to help power the Somnia DeFi ecosystem. Designed as a comprehensive DeFi “super app,” Standard unifies core financial tools including spot and perpetual trading, stablecoins, lending, and yield strategies, all within a single ecosystem. Standard Protocol offers a full central limit order book (CLOB), perpetual markets, stablecoins, and lending tools. 

While AMMs helped bootstrap liquidity to lay the foundation for Web3, they come with issues like slippage, MEV risk, and execution imprecision. Standard solves this by enabling transparent, intention-based trading where bids and asks are exact, fair, and processed directly on-chain.

What makes Standard particularly compelling for developers is its composability. It offers open APIs and embeddable UI components, allowing teams to integrate trading, lending, or stablecoin functionality directly into games, virtual worlds, or social applications. This makes it not just a tool for traders, but a critical piece of infrastructure for on-chain economies that need reliable pricing and capital efficiency.

As the ecosystem continues to expand, it sets a new standard for what on-chain finance can look like at scale. Standard is also behind Haifu.fun, a DeFi-AI crossover where users can invest in agent-managed crypto portfolios, each represented by collectible waifus with their own trading logic.

Haifu.fun: AI-Powered Fund Managers Meet On-Chain Culture

Haifu.fun is a decentralized platform for launching and managing autonomous trading agents. These agents, called wAIfus, each represent a distinct strategy or personality, and are governed by a hybrid of AI and human input. Users participate in a fundraise, then track the performance of each wAIfu through on-chain activity. Profits are distributed through smart contracts, and each fund is tokenized and tradable via Haifu’s DEX. Haifu.fun also introduces Husbando (.hbdo), a new portable file format for distributing AI agents securely. 

QuickSwap: DeFi Liquidity for Somnia’s Ecosystem

QuickSwap, one of the leading DEXs on Polygon, is now on Somnia. This partnership brings more than just a decentralized exchange. It delivers a full suite of DeFi services including swaps, LP staking, yield farming and governance.

By launching a native QuickSwap deployment, Somnia gains deep liquidity, optimized trading experiences, and access to QuickSwap’s developer network. 

As Somnia’s infrastructure evolves, QuickSwap will serve as a foundational layer for liquidity and trading. It will support not only DeFi protocols but also enable in-game marketplaces, social apps, and other real-time use cases that require seamless and reliable token exchange.

You can try out the DEX now on Testnet and see how fast the swapping and LP experience is compared to other chains! Our tests against the Monad testnet have shown times of roughly half on swaps, as shown below:

Salt: Decentralized Treasury Infrastructure Built for AI Collaboration

Salt is the world’s first open and permissionless MPC platform. Built on public, neutral infrastructure, Salt democratises access to the type of sophisticated self-custody tooling hedge funds use to retain control of assets while trading direct from wallet. On Salt, anyone can set up their portfolios and delegate its management to asset managers and AI agents, within guardrails they control and they define. 

Salt originated from traders who refused to take on the credit risk of centralised custodians. With omni-chain programmable wallets, advanced policy controls, delegations, and automated strategy execution, Salt offers a new level of flexibility and control over digital assets while maintaining security and transparency. 

Otomato: Simplifying On-Chain AI with Drag-and-Drop Agent Builders

Otomato makes it easy to build and use AI-powered autonomous agents on the blockchain. With low-code and no-code tools, users can create on-chain agents through drag-and-drop logic or activate existing ones using Simple Mode in just a few clicks. From automating DeFi strategies to launching programmable NFT campaigns, Otomato simplifies complex workflows into intuitive, user-friendly experiences.

Otomato leverages ERC-4337 smart accounts for secure, non-custodial execution. The platform has already attracted over 500 users to its beta waitlist and continues to grow with a strong community and product-led momentum. It’s a powerful toolkit for the next generation of on-chain automation.

Experience the Dream on Somnia 

The future of AI and DeFi will be built on Somnia. With record-setting throughput, low latency, and nearly non-existent fees, the Somnia ecosystem is enabling real-world applications that go far beyond what’s possible on legacy chains. From decentralized agents and CLOBs to NFT-powered games and cross-chain infrastructure, the first wave of builders is already showing what the next era of Web3 looks like. 

Experience the dream for yourself on the Somnia Testnet. 

About Somnia

Somnia is the fastest and most cost-effective EVM Layer-1 blockchain, capable of processing over 1 million transactions per second (tps) with sub-second finality. Somnia’s new multi-stream consensus technology achieves sub-second block certainty and higher transaction throughput. Sequential execution and compression algorithms effectively handle high-density scenarios, increasing the amount of data transferred between nodes by 10-20x. The custom database IceDB achieves 15-100 nanosecond read/write times, reducing transaction costs to less than a penny. This makes Somnia an ideal platform for building large-scale, real-time applications in games, social, metaverse, finance, and other fields, serving millions of users, all on-chain, making EVM more efficient than ever before.

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