Most blockchains talk about speed like it’s a feature you can toggle on.
Fogo treats speed like a constraint you have to live with.
Instead of chasing peak TPS demos, Fogo designs around what actually breaks systems in production: latency variance, hardware limits, geographic distance, and coordination overhead. It assumes congestion will happen. It assumes adversarial behavior. And instead of masking those realities, it builds guardrails so failure is contained, priced, and predictable.
That’s why ideas like local fee markets, zone-based validator coordination, and curated performance standards matter. Not because they sound good on a slide, but because they shape how the chain behaves on bad days — not just good ones.
The real question isn’t “How fast is Fogo?”
It’s “How honest is it about the cost of being fast?”
That’s a much rarer design choice in crypto.