Following the partnership between Somnia, the blockchain for gaming and entertainment, and The Residency, a fan-engagement platform, fans logged almost 250,000 interactions with former Arsenal and Chelsea Premier League player Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, just one of the 25+ stars The Residency works with.
During Aubameyang’s event, more than 120,000 unique users engaged with the player, quizzing him on everything from favourite moments in his career to favourite teams and everything in between.
A Series of Events Powered by Somnia
The partnership elevated fan experiences with their favourite sports stars and was one of six powered by Somnia to offer “intimacy at scale” for football fans globally.
“By powering the spaces that bring people together, we hope to create stronger communities and foster more fan love through more authentic interaction”, said Paul Thomas, Founder of Somnia. “For those who may not be able to make every match or in-person meetup, we wanted to enable every fan to have the opportunity to get to know their idols on a deeper level.”
Mathieu Golan, CEO and Founder of The Residency, added: “It has been fantastic working alongside Somnia to help power these experiences. I’m looking forward to future collaborations between us. “We work to drive closer interactions between sports stars and their fan bases, and our work with Somnia proved their network is more than capable of keeping up with the high interest and high demand of football fans.”
Fans Stepping Into the Action
The Residency’s onboarding of A-List footballers signals a broader demand for more intimate fan experiences, and the partnership with Somnia helped to facilitate this through its lightning-fast, low-cost network that is designed to mitigate congestion.
Already, Somnia’s leading blockchain network hosts over 70 projects across entertainment and DeFi, from AI-powered social apps to games like Sparkball, and Maelstrom. These contribute to Somnia’s growing library of applications that drive authentic interaction and community, all supercharged by Somnia’s cutting edge architecture.
Users can download The Residency app now to create an account and see the upcoming schedule of footballer-fan experiences.
About Somnia
Somnia is bringing the world’s data on-chain with the fastest, most cost-efficient EVM Layer 1 blockchain, processing over 1M TPS with sub-second finality and sub-cent fees even in high-density scenarios. Somnia’s innovative design includes the new Multistream Consensus with accelerated sequential execution, the custom IceDB database, advanced compression techniques, and instant reactivity to on-chain events directly in Solidity. Somnia is the only blockchain fully equipped for real-time, reactive, mass-consumer dApps that reach millions of users. Find out more at somnia.network.
About Residency
The Residency is the #1 fan engagement app, where the world’s biggest football stars – including Valverde, Pedri, Enzo Fernández, Rafael Leão, Trevoh Chalobah, Alejandro Balde, Fermín López, and many more – connect directly with fans in exclusive live chats and interactive video games.
