Fogo feels like a trading floor that eliminated the hidden delays traders usually absorb without noticing.
By building on the Solana Virtual Machine, it keeps the execution layer familiar while concentrating on how the network performs when activity surges all at once. The focus is not experimentation for its own sake, but stability under pressure.
The recent v20.0.0 update reflects that philosophy. It shifts gossip and repair traffic to XDP, introduces native token wrapping and transfers through Sessions, and reduces consecutive leader slots. These changes are less about headlines and more about cleaner propagation and minimizing edge-case behavior during heavy load.
Fogo’s public mainnet went live on January 15, 2026, with a stated target of 40-millisecond block times. At that speed, incremental improvements in infrastructure matter. When the work centers on network mechanics instead of marketing, the outcome is straightforward: more consistent execution — and consistency is what turns raw speed into something traders can rely.