Security

Decentralisation

Somnia philosophically believes in having sufficiently decentralised services, not maximally decentralised. What this means is that you have enough decentralisation of infrastructure to enable the good properties of decentralisation (increased security, censorship resistance, no single owner/counterparty) whilst not trading off to degrade performance significantly (all decentralisation will inherently decrease performance see blockchain trilema).

For Somnia, the main validators of the network will be targeting hardware specs between a Solana and Aptos node. This will allow a large group of participants to join the network but not have sub-par hardware and connectivity. This will ensure the high level of performance needed for real-time mass-consumer applications. There will initially be 100 globally distributed validator nodes. We expect this to grow as the network matures. We also incentivize decentralisation and global footprint for the chain through our tokenomics.

Securing The Network

As stated in the introduction the network is secured by validators staking tokens to participate in the network. This is a PoS network similar to other major blockchain networks (e.g. ETH). Node providers are subject to slashing if they act maliciously against the network. This will be further explored in our tokenomics.