Speed is easy to market. Latency is harder to engineer.
Fogo didn’t launch as another “high TPS” chain. It went live on January 15 with a different posture: SVM compatibility for developer continuity, a Firedancer-based client for execution efficiency, and a multi-local validator model designed to compress network round-trip time. The target is roughly 40ms blocks. That number matters less for retail swaps and more for on-chain order books, liquidations, and any strategy where milliseconds define edge.
The strategic signal is just as important as the technical one. A ~$7M Binance-backed token sale before mainnet put early liquidity and distribution in place, shifting the conversation from feasibility to performance ceilings.
The real thesis is simple: if you can keep execution familiar but rewrite the rules around latency and validator topology, you don’t just build a faster chain. You build infrastructure that markets can actually price in real time.