#fogo $FOGO

My finger hovers. Deploy.

Four threads, Fogo's Firedancer validator, packing stage, humming in the Frankfurt rack. LED wash in the dark. I keep saying parallel. Sealevel. Upfront accounts declared. SIMD... vectorized, they said.Parallel lanes. But my second tx just... stalls.

Same Drift perp book. Same writable. First grabs the lock. Second waits. No error. Just Fogo's low latency 40ms block time marching on without it. Fan pitch didn't drop. Threads idle, waiting. Thermal headroom for nothing. No kernel overhead, they said. C-stack bypass. Still this.

I check logs. Nothing. No conflict warning. @Fogo Official L1's SVM runtime serialized them. Around state, not through. I thought parallel means throughput. Right? But two txs, one target. Suddenly I'm counting slots one by one. Fast empty blocks. My flow grinds sequential.

Try batching. Different accounts. Works. Threads light up. Then both hit the same perp book. Scheduler chokes. Write-write. I can feel it before I can name it. Conflicts dominate. Firedancer-first on Fogo means there's no second client to blame. Single client. Single bottleneck. Curated set, and still this.

Slot ticks. Another 40ms. Sub-block time. Fast blocks. Empty for me. My txs don't crash, that's the "parallel." Don't accelerate—that's the truth. Dependency graph builds. My Drift nodes? Mostly linear. Should've guessed. I declared upfront accounts. Didn't guarantee anything. Runtime caught the collision anyway.

Read locks shared. Write exclusive.

Just my accounts.

My conflict chain.

Block finalizes. 1.3 seconds finality. Cleared. Not parallel. Not through. Just... around. Their throughput. Not mine. My perp book, my chain, long as my sequence. One by one. 40ms at a..

Wait. Lock release timing. Didn't check. My code? Slot boundary? Or zone handoff... London taking over, consensus rotating, next leader selected. The Fogo deterministic schedule doesn't pause for my guesses. I didn't account for that.

Not matter. It is done. But I'm still watching the fan speed. Or, no, thermal's fine.

It's the lock.

Always the lock. #Fogo