Fogo and the Slot That Didn’t Wait
I thought I mis-clicked.
Blotter flashed and the line came back partial, like it was doing me a favor. I stared at it too long, long enough for the on-chain order book to stop being “thin” and start being set.
The quote went in clean. The Fogo high-performance SVM chain didn’t give me that soft middle state where you cancel-replace and call it discipline. The ultra-low block cadence rotated and the allocation was already decided.
I tried to leg out. My replace hit the screen and then… nothing to stare at. No pending theater. Just deterministic execution ordering turning my “taker” intention into a posted wall. Becoming liquidity without agreeing to it.
Somebody else took my level like they’d been waiting. Maybe they were. fogo High-frequency propagation 400ms, validator proximity, whatever name you give distance when it’s measured in slots.
Chat: “leg it?”
I typed “wait—” and deleted it.
Risk didn’t escalate. Nothing broke. That’s the problem.
Hovering over cancel like the button’s still listening.