Overview

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Somnia is a high-performance, cost-efficient EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain capable of processing over 1,000,000 transactions per second (TPS) with sub-second finality.

It is suitable for serving millions of users and building real-time mass-consumer applications like games, social applications, metaverses, and more, all fully on-chain. You can find a block explorer for mainnet at: https://explorer.somnia.network/ and for testnet at: https://shannon-explorer.somnia.network/ Here are links to Somnia’s website if you want to explore their user documentation or developer docs.

Network Support

Network	HTTPS	WSS
Mainnet	✅	✅
Testnet	✅	✅

WebSocket clients MUST respond to server ping frames, otherwise the connection will be closed and re-established every minute.

Getting Started

Send a request to check that your endpoint works. Replace <YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> with the key from your endpoint in the Validation Cloud app.

curl https://mainnet.somnia.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_blockNumber","params":[],"id":0}'

curl https://testnet.somnia.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_blockNumber","params":[],"id":0}'

Connect over WebSocket:

wscat -c wss://mainnet.somnia.validationcloud.io/v1/wss/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>

wscat -c wss://testnet.somnia.validationcloud.io/v1/wss/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>

Compute Units

Method	Compute units
debug_traceCall	80
debug_traceTransaction	80
eth_accounts	20
eth_blockNumber	20
eth_call	40
eth_chainId	10
eth_estimateGas	40
eth_gasPrice	40
eth_getBalance	40
eth_getBlockByHash	40
eth_getBlockByNumber	40
eth_getBlockReceipts	40
eth_getBlockTransactionCountByHash	40
eth_getBlockTransactionCountByNumber	40
eth_getCode	40
eth_getLogs	80
eth_getStorageAt	40
eth_getTransactionByBlockHashAndIndex	40
eth_getTransactionByBlockNumberAndIndex	40
eth_getTransactionByHash	40
eth_getTransactionCount	40
eth_getTransactionReceipt	40
eth_sendRawTransaction	80
eth_subscribe	20
eth_unsubscribe	20
eth_syncing	10
net_listening	10
net_version	10
web3_clientVersion	40
web3_sha3	40

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Network Support

Getting Started

Compute Units

​Network Support

​Getting Started

​Compute Units

Network Support

Getting Started

Compute Units