How Much Can Co-location Cut Block Time? FOGO's Answer is Wild.
You order food from downstairs 10 mins. Same food from another city? 1 hour. Cold. Late. Frustrating.
That's latency.
Now imagine your blockchain transactions face the same delay. Because New York to Tokyo is 10,800 km. Light takes ~100ms round trip. Just physics. Before any validation.
Most chains accept this.
$FOGO didn't.
They put their validators in the same Tokyo data center. Same room. Side by side.
Result? Block time dropped from 400ms (Solana) to 40ms. 10x faster. Live since January 13, 2026.
Then they built Follow-the-Sun: Asia awake? Tokyo runs. Asia sleeping? London takes over. Europe sleeping? New York handles it. You're always connected to the closest validator.
Numbers? 40ms blocks. 1.3s finality. 136,000+ TPS in tests. Visa does 24,000.
Team? Ex-Citadel, ex-Jump Crypto guys. They built Wall Street HFT systems. They know latency.
Bottom line: Co-location + smart rotation = 400ms → 40ms.
That 360ms saved? In crypto trading, 1ms matters. 360ms is everything.
Speed vs decentralization what's your take?