Most people think blockchains compete on decentralization slogans.
Fogo competes on something less glamorous: deterministic execution for trading.
On many chains, when you send a transaction, it enters a public mempool. Bots watch it. Latency differences matter. Ordering becomes a game of who sees what first. Traders don’t just fight price, they fight infrastructure.
Fogo reduces that surface.
Because it runs an optimized SVM stack with tightly controlled validator performance and very short block times, the window between “submit” and “finalized” is small. There’s less time for transactions to float around in uncertainty. Less time for reordering games. Less time for mempool drama.
This isn’t about being the most decentralized chain on paper. It’s about making order placement feel predictable when markets move.
Builders designing orderbooks or perps on Fogo don’t spend half their time engineering around mempool chaos. They design around execution that behaves consistently.
Fogo’s edge isn’t loud. It’s structural.
It narrows the gap between when you act and when the chain actually commits that action.