A lot of chains talk about speed but end up being clones of something else. Fogo feels different because they aren’t just borrowing a VM; they’re building a custom environment with a Firedancer-based client that actually moves the needle. Seeing the mainnet go live in January with 40ms blocks is a huge statement.
By baking price feeds and high-performance validator specs directly into the core infra from day one, they’re skipping the usual excuses. The 7M funding through Binance definitely helped the momentum, but the real story is the tech. It’s less about the theory now and more about seeing just how fast this thing can actually go in the wild.