[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @0xPaulThomas Paul Thomas Paul Thomas posts on X about somnia, token, web3, gaming the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1446133668913692674/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX +158% - X Month XXXXXXX +29% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +13,965% - X Year XXXXXXXXX +2,060% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1446133668913692674/posts_active)  - X Month XX +3.30% - X Months XXX +2,562% - X Year XXX +17,750% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1446133668913692674/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +1.20% - X Month XXXXXX +1.30% - X Months XXXXXX +197% - X Year XXXXXX +3,874% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1446133668913692674/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1446133668913692674/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) **Social topic influence** [somnia](/topic/somnia) #20, [token](/topic/token) #716, [web3](/topic/web3), [gaming](/topic/gaming), [yappers](/topic/yappers) #108, [leaderboard](/topic/leaderboard), [blockchain](/topic/blockchain), [$pump](/topic/$pump), [alt](/topic/alt), [$113b](/topic/$113b) **Top assets mentioned** [PumpBTC (Governance token) (PUMP)](/topic/$pump) [Solana (SOL)](/topic/solana) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1446133668913692674/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "This blog sets out why we need another blockchain in the space. We didn't want to build this 😄. but we had to solve blockchain performance for metaverse and gaming. This is the foundation for open interoperable and composable digital experiences"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1778367347369079273) 2024-04-11 10:19:50 UTC 48.3K followers, 159.2K engagements "Watching this one very closely. Alt launches have not had a good time this year. Market conditions are good ATM though. And there is actual revenue behind the token"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1944810835890573561) 2025-07-14 17:26:50 UTC 48.3K followers, 10.4K engagements "@0xSofiya @Somnia_Network @SomniaYappers @aleksamil_ They will give you benefits in the Somnia ecosystem 😊"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1947921577284169929) 2025-07-23 07:27:49 UTC 48.4K followers, XXX engagements "New website has some alpha in it if you look carefully. Can you find the secret upcoming stuff for Somnia Also really interested in feedback. We went in a very different direction from most website. Wanted it to feel a bit like a game"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1948035056670306709) 2025-07-23 14:58:44 UTC 48.3K followers, 13.8K engagements "I strongly believe that prediction markets will save Web3 gaming. Polymarket processed over $15.2B across 114M trades with $1.13B in May alone. But you can't bet on anything. I think the mix of gaming + prediction markets will skyrocket engagement"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1942337917596361165) 2025-07-07 21:40:21 UTC 48.3K followers, 6900 engagements "Time to claim your SomniYaps. People are asking what are these for. We can't give specifics but it will give you "benefits in the Somnia ecosystem". To maybe add a bit more we wanted a separate system from points to reward yappers"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1947990584385311109) 2025-07-23 12:02:01 UTC 48.3K followers, 9846 engagements "The race of the layer ones. What's interesting is Monad and Somnia are similar node setup to our mainets. The others I'm not sure but probably have less validators. Very impressed with SEI. I ran this about XX times and Monad kept failing. Not sure why. Result Somnia - XXX ms avg SEI - XXX ms avg Sonic - XXX ms avg Solana - XXX ms avg Monad - failed Be interesting to see what others get. Location will change as it's end to end latency. I'm in the UK"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1931783935178244415) 2025-06-08 18:42:35 UTC 48.3K followers, 153.3K engagements "Looking forward to playing this over the weekend. Would check it out if you like something a bit more casual and chill. Native mobile is a very important platform for web3 gaming"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1932165425829433414) 2025-06-09 19:58:30 UTC 48.3K followers, 5150 engagements "@Marcel_Drizer No that era is over I'm afraid. I wouldn't worry too much as it's your total points that matter not where you are on the leaderboard"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1948017219855634914) 2025-07-23 13:47:52 UTC 48.3K followers, XXX engagements "Discussing future governance models this morning. My main issue with most DAOs: - Token plutocracy: Wealth dictates decisions ignoring other contributions. - Decisions behind closed doors: Many are just centralised projects in disguise. - Slow decisions: Decentralisation of decision making slows progress. Which projects do you think does governance well"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1947237731341410440) 2025-07-21 10:10:27 UTC 48.3K followers, 12.6K engagements "Time to set sail on the high seas with @MaelstromRise. See you all in game and onchain. Game on Somnia"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1945118579575194061) 2025-07-15 13:49:42 UTC 48.3K followers, 7433 engagements "@kodakdalk I can not comment on this question 😅"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1947715562269978705) 2025-07-22 17:49:11 UTC 48.3K followers, XX engagements "I find it odd how many people feel like TGE is the end of the project. To me it's just the start. It's actually when your product is live and you can asses real usage. It's when the game really steps up and you need to drive real adoption. Somnia starts at TGE"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1946126434063278312) 2025-07-18 08:34:33 UTC 48.3K followers, 43.6K engagements "Somnia tokenomics wise we are currently planning to make a deflationary token. This means that as the chain gets used the supply will decrease. This is very different to most L1s which are inflationary. We did not like that you are punished for holding a token long term"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1944062118992421201) 2025-07-12 15:51:42 UTC 48.3K followers, 56.4K engagements "The difference this cycle compared to the last is institutional money flooding in. Token treasury strategies are being normalised. I reckon the top XX projects will have treasury companies. Financial innovation often leads bubbles. Still early but it's going to be interesting"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1947641583081558318) 2025-07-22 12:55:13 UTC 48.3K followers, 8499 engagements "One of the biggest issues I see in founders is conflict avoidance. We naturally shy away from tough conversations and hard decisions. Im like this too. I now start every day by confronting the hardest problem. Eat the s**t sandwich first. Its how you move 10x faster"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1946510509257179480) 2025-07-19 10:00:44 UTC 48.3K followers, 11.2K engagements "Most startups fail because founders energy runs out. In a bull market the pace increases 100x and founders try to do everything forgetting their limited time chips per day. The real risk isn't the market deals or PMF it's burnout. Stay in the game to win"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1948344926342959348) 2025-07-24 11:30:03 UTC 48.3K followers, 4927 engagements "@ZaraFatoluu For yapper rewards you will be getting SomniYaps now. Points will be more focused on dApp usage"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1948017489327051116) 2025-07-23 13:48:56 UTC 48.3K followers, XXX engagements "One of the major leavers we have in web3 is using incentives to attract users. The issue is often teams use these mechanisms to retain users. This gives a false sense of product market fit. I think using incentives as user aquisition make sense. Similar to spending $X on ads to acquire a user spending X tokens is god UA spend. Continuing to spend to retain I think is dangerous. Teams should try to turn off these mechanisms to see what their true baseline is. Otherwise you may think you have product market fit when you don't"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1945493284161233298) 2025-07-16 14:38:39 UTC 48.3K followers, 11.2K engagements "The issue with incentives is people will come and try to max extract. The trick is identifying who are your target audience. Somnia is starting to look at systems that proves your gaming credentials. This allows us and games in the ecosystem to incentivise players not bots"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1943662841413734899) 2025-07-11 13:25:07 UTC 48.3K followers, 35.3K engagements "Introducing SomniYaps our new social tokens given to influential voices in the Somnia ecosystem. We created this to have a broader way to incentivise Yappers. We will use it to create programs around specific ecosystem projects and topics. SomniYaps unlock access to rewards and ecosystem perks. We have a lot of fun plans here. More dropping soon. Keep an eye out on the timeline on Friday"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1945846272705056972) 2025-07-17 14:01:18 UTC 48.3K followers, 104.9K engagements "Don't think we are going to hit July. Gas model changes we made to Somnia have caused more issues with apps than we anticipated. Making a super high throughput chain is harder than you think 😅"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1946873852681986529) 2025-07-20 10:04:32 UTC 48.3K followers, 57.5K engagements "Congrats on your new role To be clear when @aleksamil_ posts it's probably a joke. When I post you can see it as a project update (but she does drop alphas in a funny way)"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1947313478563168609) 2025-07-21 15:11:27 UTC 48.3K followers, 7561 engagements "It's a big move for us doubling down on how we work with Yappers in throughout the ecosystem. If youre an experienced Yapper youve probably already spotted the change. If not head to your profile and see whats new:"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1945846284675588317) 2025-07-17 14:01:20 UTC 48.4K followers, 6227 engagements "Having a long term view is important in this space. Short term decisions feel good at the time but often lead to worse outcomes. Zoom out place bets where you think the world is going not where it is today"  [@0xPaulThomas](/creator/x/0xPaulThomas) on [X](/post/tweet/1947922691794866381) 2025-07-23 07:32:15 UTC 48.3K followers, 8521 engagements
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@0xPaulThomas Paul Thomas
Paul Thomas posts on X about somnia, token, web3, gaming the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX +158%
- X Month XXXXXXX +29%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +13,965%
- X Year XXXXXXXXX +2,060%
Mentions: XX #
- X Month XX +3.30%
- X Months XXX +2,562%
- X Year XXX +17,750%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +1.20%
- X Month XXXXXX +1.30%
- X Months XXXXXX +197%
- X Year XXXXXX +3,874%
CreatorRank: XXXXXXX #
Social Influence #
Social category influence finance cryptocurrencies
Social topic influence somnia #20, token #716, web3, gaming, yappers #108, leaderboard, blockchain, $pump, alt, $113b
Top assets mentioned PumpBTC (Governance token) (PUMP) Solana (SOL)
Top Social Posts #
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"This blog sets out why we need another blockchain in the space. We didn't want to build this 😄. but we had to solve blockchain performance for metaverse and gaming. This is the foundation for open interoperable and composable digital experiences"
@0xPaulThomas on X 2024-04-11 10:19:50 UTC 48.3K followers, 159.2K engagements
"Watching this one very closely. Alt launches have not had a good time this year. Market conditions are good ATM though. And there is actual revenue behind the token" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-14 17:26:50 UTC 48.3K followers, 10.4K engagements
"@0xSofiya @Somnia_Network @SomniaYappers @aleksamil_ They will give you benefits in the Somnia ecosystem 😊" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-23 07:27:49 UTC 48.4K followers, XXX engagements
"New website has some alpha in it if you look carefully. Can you find the secret upcoming stuff for Somnia Also really interested in feedback. We went in a very different direction from most website. Wanted it to feel a bit like a game" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-23 14:58:44 UTC 48.3K followers, 13.8K engagements
"I strongly believe that prediction markets will save Web3 gaming. Polymarket processed over $15.2B across 114M trades with $1.13B in May alone. But you can't bet on anything. I think the mix of gaming + prediction markets will skyrocket engagement" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-07 21:40:21 UTC 48.3K followers, 6900 engagements
"Time to claim your SomniYaps. People are asking what are these for. We can't give specifics but it will give you "benefits in the Somnia ecosystem". To maybe add a bit more we wanted a separate system from points to reward yappers" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-23 12:02:01 UTC 48.3K followers, 9846 engagements
"The race of the layer ones. What's interesting is Monad and Somnia are similar node setup to our mainets. The others I'm not sure but probably have less validators. Very impressed with SEI. I ran this about XX times and Monad kept failing. Not sure why. Result Somnia - XXX ms avg SEI - XXX ms avg Sonic - XXX ms avg Solana - XXX ms avg Monad - failed Be interesting to see what others get. Location will change as it's end to end latency. I'm in the UK" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-06-08 18:42:35 UTC 48.3K followers, 153.3K engagements
"Looking forward to playing this over the weekend. Would check it out if you like something a bit more casual and chill. Native mobile is a very important platform for web3 gaming" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-06-09 19:58:30 UTC 48.3K followers, 5150 engagements
"@Marcel_Drizer No that era is over I'm afraid. I wouldn't worry too much as it's your total points that matter not where you are on the leaderboard" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-23 13:47:52 UTC 48.3K followers, XXX engagements
"Discussing future governance models this morning. My main issue with most DAOs: - Token plutocracy: Wealth dictates decisions ignoring other contributions. - Decisions behind closed doors: Many are just centralised projects in disguise. - Slow decisions: Decentralisation of decision making slows progress. Which projects do you think does governance well" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-21 10:10:27 UTC 48.3K followers, 12.6K engagements
"Time to set sail on the high seas with @MaelstromRise. See you all in game and onchain. Game on Somnia" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-15 13:49:42 UTC 48.3K followers, 7433 engagements
"@kodakdalk I can not comment on this question 😅" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-22 17:49:11 UTC 48.3K followers, XX engagements
"I find it odd how many people feel like TGE is the end of the project. To me it's just the start. It's actually when your product is live and you can asses real usage. It's when the game really steps up and you need to drive real adoption. Somnia starts at TGE" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-18 08:34:33 UTC 48.3K followers, 43.6K engagements
"Somnia tokenomics wise we are currently planning to make a deflationary token. This means that as the chain gets used the supply will decrease. This is very different to most L1s which are inflationary. We did not like that you are punished for holding a token long term" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-12 15:51:42 UTC 48.3K followers, 56.4K engagements
"The difference this cycle compared to the last is institutional money flooding in. Token treasury strategies are being normalised. I reckon the top XX projects will have treasury companies. Financial innovation often leads bubbles. Still early but it's going to be interesting" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-22 12:55:13 UTC 48.3K followers, 8499 engagements
"One of the biggest issues I see in founders is conflict avoidance. We naturally shy away from tough conversations and hard decisions. Im like this too. I now start every day by confronting the hardest problem. Eat the s**t sandwich first. Its how you move 10x faster" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-19 10:00:44 UTC 48.3K followers, 11.2K engagements
"Most startups fail because founders energy runs out. In a bull market the pace increases 100x and founders try to do everything forgetting their limited time chips per day. The real risk isn't the market deals or PMF it's burnout. Stay in the game to win" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-24 11:30:03 UTC 48.3K followers, 4927 engagements
"@ZaraFatoluu For yapper rewards you will be getting SomniYaps now. Points will be more focused on dApp usage" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-23 13:48:56 UTC 48.3K followers, XXX engagements
"One of the major leavers we have in web3 is using incentives to attract users. The issue is often teams use these mechanisms to retain users. This gives a false sense of product market fit. I think using incentives as user aquisition make sense. Similar to spending $X on ads to acquire a user spending X tokens is god UA spend. Continuing to spend to retain I think is dangerous. Teams should try to turn off these mechanisms to see what their true baseline is. Otherwise you may think you have product market fit when you don't" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-16 14:38:39 UTC 48.3K followers, 11.2K engagements
"The issue with incentives is people will come and try to max extract. The trick is identifying who are your target audience. Somnia is starting to look at systems that proves your gaming credentials. This allows us and games in the ecosystem to incentivise players not bots" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-11 13:25:07 UTC 48.3K followers, 35.3K engagements
"Introducing SomniYaps our new social tokens given to influential voices in the Somnia ecosystem. We created this to have a broader way to incentivise Yappers. We will use it to create programs around specific ecosystem projects and topics. SomniYaps unlock access to rewards and ecosystem perks. We have a lot of fun plans here. More dropping soon. Keep an eye out on the timeline on Friday" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-17 14:01:18 UTC 48.3K followers, 104.9K engagements
"Don't think we are going to hit July. Gas model changes we made to Somnia have caused more issues with apps than we anticipated. Making a super high throughput chain is harder than you think 😅" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-20 10:04:32 UTC 48.3K followers, 57.5K engagements
"Congrats on your new role To be clear when @aleksamil_ posts it's probably a joke. When I post you can see it as a project update (but she does drop alphas in a funny way)" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-21 15:11:27 UTC 48.3K followers, 7561 engagements
"It's a big move for us doubling down on how we work with Yappers in throughout the ecosystem. If youre an experienced Yapper youve probably already spotted the change. If not head to your profile and see whats new:" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-17 14:01:20 UTC 48.4K followers, 6227 engagements
"Having a long term view is important in this space. Short term decisions feel good at the time but often lead to worse outcomes. Zoom out place bets where you think the world is going not where it is today" @0xPaulThomas on X 2025-07-23 07:32:15 UTC 48.3K followers, 8521 engagements