The blockchain project Somnia, dedicated to putting global data on-chain at record speed and efficiency, has announced the official launch of the Shannon testnet, an important step before the mainnet goes live. Named after "the father of information theory," Claude Elwood Shannon, this testnet aims to provide developers and users with a real environment for testing high-speed, scalable, and cost-effective blockchain applications.
Following the development network's achievement of over 1 million transactions per second (TPS), sub-second confirmation times, and transaction fees of less than one cent, the launch of the Shannon testnet will further push the network's scalability boundaries. During the development network testing period, Somnia processed over 3.6 million transactions, with more than 300,000 independent addresses participating in interactions, strongly demonstrating its capability to handle real-world demands. The Shannon testnet is designed to test anti-congestion performance and provide developers with advanced infrastructure for application deployment.
It is reported that the Shannon testnet is designed to simulate real-world conditions, ensuring that blockchain applications can operate normally in large-scale scenarios.
Four New Features of the Shannon Testnet
Higher Decentralization: With the launch of the staking protocol, multiple third-party validators have already connected to operate, further enhancing network security and operational resilience;
Significant Stability Improvement: No more state clearing, allowing developers to focus on building products without needing to redeploy or restart replay states;
Further Development Readiness: All necessary infrastructure for building and testing applications is now in place;
Ecosystem Expansion: More projects are set to debut and be introduced, driving rapid development of real adoption and testnet activities.
Infrastructure Partners
Somnia's testnet is fully equipped with the infrastructure developers need to build and scale applications. We have integrated key infrastructure partners to ensure seamless development and deployment. As the ecosystem continues to grow and evolve, developers can start building products immediately without waiting for additional integrations.
Four Technological Innovations Driving Somnia
Somnia's Shannon testnet is powered by several groundbreaking innovations, making it one of today's leading blockchain testing environments.
MultiStream Consensus: The Core of High-Performance Scalability
Somnia's MultiStream consensus is a significant breakthrough in blockchain scalability, allowing for the parallel execution of transactions without causing network delays. This innovation ensures that even under high transaction volumes, Somnia can maintain speed, efficiency, and decentralization. Other innovations driving Somnia's exceptional performance include:
Accelerated Sequential Execution: Converts EVM bytecode into highly optimized native code, providing better single-core performance without runtime interpretation bottlenecks;
IceDB (Deterministic Database): A database built specifically for blockchain, offering nanosecond-level read and write speeds, ensuring consistency in transaction confirmations and accurate gas fee estimations;
Advanced Compression Technology: Reduces bandwidth requirements through streaming compression algorithms, supporting scalability of millions of transactions per second.
By integrating these technologies, the Shannon testnet provides developers with a powerful and scalable development environment to build the next generation of blockchain applications.
Unlocking Four New Application Scenarios
With high-speed and low-cost transactions, Somnia lays the foundation for a new category of blockchain applications, including:
Responsive Applications: Smart contracts that can instantly respond to on-chain events and real-world data, opening new possibilities for real-time gaming, dynamic markets, and automated financial services;
Full-Chain Games: Games with real-time mechanisms, instant transactions, and decentralized economies, without the need for centralized servers;
Scalable DeFi Protocols: Supporting high-frequency trading, instant exchanges, and decentralized financial infrastructure without network congestion and excessive fees;
Social Platforms and Metaverses: Seamlessly scalable interactive digital worlds and social networks for millions of users.
Somnia founder Paul Thomas stated: “The Shannon testnet is a validation environment prepared for a fully on-chain future. With TPS in the millions, sub-second confirmation times, and MultiStream consensus, developers can build products without restrictions, allowing millions of users to experience a truly internet-scale blockchain network.”
Future Plans
The launch of Somnia's Shannon testnet is a key step towards the mainnet. In the coming months, developers will deploy applications, optimize performance, and conduct stress tests, while Somnia's official team will continue to enhance the infrastructure in preparation for large-scale adoption.
Join the Shannon Testnet Development Now
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About Somnia
Somnia is a leading high-speed and low-cost EVM Layer-1 blockchain network capable of sub-second confirmation times and processing over 400,000 transactions per second (TPS). Through the innovative MultiStream technology, it achieves sub-second block confirmations and higher transaction throughput; its sequential execution and compression algorithms effectively handle high-density scenarios, increasing data transfer between nodes by 10-20 times; the custom database IceDB enables read and write times of 70-100 nanoseconds, reducing transaction costs to below one cent, making Somnia capable of serving millions of users in gaming, social, metaverse, and financial sectors, while ensuring that related processes run seamlessly on-chain, achieving efficient improvements in EVM network efficiency. Thus, Somnia has become the ideal platform for building large-scale real-time applications.
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