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Quick Take
  • The SOMI token went live on day 1 of Somnia’s mainnet, with 16.02% of the total token supply circulating at TGE.
  • Somnia will follow a phased governance plan to reduce the foundation's control and allow token holders to vote, propose, and approve expenditures.
  • SOMI will have a fixed supply of 1 billion tokens, with 10% allocated to secure the network via validator rewards.
  • 50% of every transaction fee is burned, linking the SOMI supply to onchain usage.

What Happened

The network emphasizes seamless interoperability and asset portability across Somnia so developers can reuse users, liquidity, and state across ecosystems while keeping application logic onchain. Somnia launched its mainnet and SOMI token on September 2, 2025.

On August 15, Somnia revealed SOMI, the native token of the Somnia blockchain, with a maximum supply of 1 billion tokens. Unlike other blockchains, which pay out inflationary token emissions to validators securing the network, Somnia allocates a fixed 10%, allowing Somnia to cap the overall supply. Somnia’s token generation event occurred on the same day as its mainnet launch.

Investors (15.15%): 151.5 million tokens allocated to seed investors.

Launch Partners (15.00%): 150.0 million tokens for early contributors to the Somnia ecosystem.

Somnia’s token supply will vest over 48 months. At TGE, 16.02% of the SOMI supply enters circulation: 10.945% from the Community allocation and 5.075% from the Ecosystem allocation. The Community allocation will have additional unlocks in the first 2 months post-TGE, followed by 36 months of linear vesting. Ecosystem vests linearly over 48 months from launch. The Investor and Advisor allocations are subject to a 12-month cliff, followed by linear vesting over 36 months. The Somnia Team and Launch Partners allocations vest over 48 months, preceded by a 12-month cliff period.

Market Context

Community (27.93%): 279.3 million tokens for contributors, validator rewards, and liquidity.

Why It Matters

Key Insights

The SOMI token went live on day 1 of Somnia’s mainnet, with 16.02% of the total token supply circulating at TGE.

Details

Somnia will follow a phased governance plan to reduce the foundation's control and allow token holders to vote, propose, and approve expenditures.

SOMI will have a fixed supply of 1 billion tokens, with 10% allocated to secure the network via validator rewards.

50% of every transaction fee is burned, linking the SOMI supply to onchain usage. The other half is paid to validators.

Primer

Somnia (SOMI) is an EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain designed to bring complex, real-time applications fully onchain. At its core, Somnia combines a parallelized MultiStream consensus engine with compiled EVM bytecode execution and IceDB, a low-latency data store. The design targets sub-second finality, sub-cent fees, and reactive onchain primitives that let apps respond to state changes in real time.

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Tokenomics

Allocations

Ecosystem (27.35%): 273.5 million tokens to fund ecosystem development and the foundation, including grants and strategic initiatives.

Team (11.00%): 110.0 million tokens for founders and early team members.

Advisors (3.58%): 35.8 million tokens to key advisors providing strategic and technical guidance.

Unlocks

Fee Burn Mechanics

Somnia implements a deflationary mechanism by permanently burning 50% of all transaction fees. This means that for every SOMI used to pay for gas, 0.50 SOMI is removed from the total supply during settlement, making SOMI structurally deflationary. The other 0.50 SOMI is distributed to validators based on stake weight. All transactions on the network are subject to this burn mechanism.

SOMI Token Utility

Staking