Somnia Partners With Google Cloud in a Big Boost for Gaming Developers

Somnia has partnered with Google Cloud in a bid to integrate its tools and make it a validator on its blockchain network.

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Sneha Agrawal

July 1, 2025

Partnership Somnia Partners With Google Cloud in a Big Boost for Gaming Developers

Somnia, the gaming and entertainment focused blockchain, has announced a major partnership with Google Cloud. With the partnership, it has integrated its AI Agent tools and will operate as a validator on the Somnia network.

The partnership was unveiled at the ongoing Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) in Cannes where leaders like Vitalik Buterin and other Ethereum developers and innovators are gathering.

Founded with backing from a $270 million fund led by Improbable, Somnia boasts a novel multistream consensus mechanism and its proprietary IceDB database. Unveiled last year, it has throughput exceeding one million transactions per second (TPS), sub‑second finality, and transaction fees below one cent.

The network recently surpassed 1 billion transactions on its public testnet – surpassing Ethereum and Solana for gaming transactions.

Google Cloud to Become Somnia’s Validator

Under the partnership, Google Cloud will operate validator nodes on Somnia’s network. It will leverage its enterprise‑grade infrastructure to bolster decentralization, uptime, and security.

With this, Somnia developers are set to gain seamless access to Google Cloud’s AI, data‑streaming, cloud and analytics services. These include real‑time blockchain data ingestion via Pub/Sub and indexed Somnia datasets in BigQuery for rapid prototyping and deep insights.

As per the press release shared with BrandTalk, Somnia is integrating Google’s AI agent ecosystem, including ADK, A2A, and MCP, to enable intelligent, interoperable agents within on-chain games and applications.

We just made a huge announcement at @EthCC! 🤯

We're teaming up with @GoogleCloudTech to power AI agents and leverage their security capabilities!

Google Cloud will also operate as a validator on the Somnia network.

See the full story on @GamesBeat: https://t.co/V5b0MAnBgN pic.twitter.com/JAaLsaRkpx

— Somnia – a Fully Onchain World (@Somnia_Network) June 30, 2025

This comes as not only the gaming applications, the broader crypto industry is rapidly integrating AI agents and their capabilities. Be it the exchanges, wallets and DeFi platforms, the combination of Crypto and AI is increasingly being adopted.

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Google Cloud’s Increasing Blockchain Engagements

This comes as the latest Google Cloud’s publicly announced blockchain‑related partnerships in 2025. It is already partenering with CME Group, piloting its Universal Ledger – a private, programmable distributed‑ledger network – to explore tokenization of derivatives and streamlining of settlement and clearing processes.

Further, in early 2025, Google Cloud joined Injective as an official validator node operator. This collaboration leverages Google’s infrastructure to secure Injective’s DeFi‑focused Layer 1 network, improve transaction validation throughput, and give developers access to real‑time blockchain data and tooling on GCP.

The broader web3 gaming industry is also rebounding. In Q1 2025, GameFi platforms hit 1 million daily active users, led by Solana and Ethereum L2 titles. While Q2‑specific wallet counts aren’t yet aggregated, weekly reports show strong engagement on Layer‑2 chains. For example, Mythos is exceeding $650 million lifetime trading volume with the growing momentum in Metaverse‑style games.

After Q1’s dip to 5.8 million dUAW, Q2 2025 has also seen stabilization and even slight rebounds. April saw 4.8 M dUAW while May witnessed 4.9 M dUAW (a modest uptick from April’s lows). Gaming accounted for 19.4 % of all dUAW in May, narrowly outpacing DeFi and AI‐driven dApps. However, the investment in web3 gaming projects is yet to get back to 2024-levels.

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With over four years of experience in covering and tracking the financial markets, Sneha Agrawal is a dedicated Crypto Journalist and Editor with passion for researching and writing the crypto pieces. She is currently leading the Brandtalk section, here at CoinGape. She likes to keep track of political, legal and financial happenings all around the world - without which she deems her day incomplete. Apart from her Journalistic endeavours, she is a solo traveler, museum goer, and a keen reader of books.