#fogo @Fogo Official $FOGO

Pack Didn't Lie. I Misread the Contract.

Fogo. Zone A activating in 90 seconds. Position staged. Fee set to base. Submitted 6:59:20.

Never packed.

Not dropped. Not failed. Chain healthy. 40ms slots landing. 1.3s window cycling. My transaction just... not in any of them.

Spent 20 minutes thinking it was a node issue.

It wasn't a node issue.

Firedancer's Pack tile doesn't queue transactions. It optimizes them. Litepaper says it clearly: maximum fee revenue and efficient execution. I read that line six times during setup. Thought it meant the chain was efficient.

It meant Pack was.

Six bots fired priority fees simultaneously at zone activation. Pack built the microblock that maximized fee capture. My base fee transaction was valid, correct, and the least profitable inclusion decision Pack could make.

So it didn't make it.

I had been treating fee priority like congestion insurance. Pay base, get included. Pay priority only when the chain is busy.

Fogo inverted that assumption without telling me.

40ms blocks mean execution isn't the bottleneck. Pack's optimization window is. Zone activation is when every pre-staged position fires at once. That window isn't congestion. It's competition. And I showed up to a competition with a participation fee.

Fixed it. Dynamic fee scaling tied to epoch schedule. Two hours to implement.

One missed position to understand that valid and included are not synonyms on a chain this fast.

Still not sure how many other places I'm paying participation fees in competitions I don't know I've already lost.