Insights
Research and perspectives on onchain markets
Explainers, research, frequently asked questions and news from Somnia on market structure, oracles, agents and the infrastructure underneath them.
One book, many venues: how shared liquidity works on Somnia
Venues on Somnia plug into shared order books and shared resolution instead of bootstrapping their own. This piece explains the mechanics and the economics.
How the Somnia Oracle resolves a question
From a natural-language question to an immutable onchain answer in minutes: the Somnia Oracle's lifecycle, step by step.
Agents inside consensus: how Somnia Agents work
Somnia Agents let smart contracts call APIs, read websites and run deterministic AI models, with results agreed by a validator subcommittee and every step receipted.
Reactivity explained: contracts that respond on their own
Somnia Reactivity runs contract handlers in the same block as the events they react to, and pushes events to apps over WebSocket. A practical guide to both modes.
Why matching belongs onchain
Where an exchange matches orders decides who you have to trust. A look at the trust models in today's order-book venues, and why Somnia puts the matching engine in a smart contract.
What is an onchain order book?
A plain-language introduction to central limit order books, price-time priority, and what changes when the book runs on a blockchain.