Somnia, the Layer 1 blockchain built by Improbable, has gone live with its mainnet. Source: Somnia
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Somnia blockchain built by Improbable goes live with mainnet

Somnia, the high-performance Layer 1 blockchain built by Improbable in partnership with the Somnia Foundation, has gone live with its mainnet.

It also launched its native token, $SOMI. Built for commercial-scale applications including DeFi, social, and gaming, Somnia enters mainnet after a six-month testnet phase that processed over 10 billion transactions, onboarded more than 118 million unique wallet addresses, and attracted over 70 ecosystem partners.

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