Fogo openly acknowledges that consistent 40ms blocks require tight coordination between professional infrastructure operators, not volunteer nodes scattered across consumer hardware worldwide. Traditional finance runs this way. Nasdaq doesn't decentralize its matching engines across random data centers.
It optimizes ruthlessly for execution quality. That tradeoff works brilliantly when volume flows. Professional traders don't care about validator count they care about fills. But if adoption stalls, a small validator set becomes an easy target for "centralization" criticism that scares away the ideological capital crypto still runs on.
Fogo bet everything on performance mattering more than philosophy. The market hasn't decided yet who's right.