What Wall Street Taught $FOGO About Building a Blockchain

Ever wonder why trading firms like Citadel and Jump exist?

Because milliseconds matter. In traditional finance, if you're 5ms slower than the guy next to you, you're broke.

FOGO's founders? They lived that life.

Douglas Colkitt spent years at Citadel Securities building high-frequency trading systems. Robert Sagurton ran things at Jump Crypto .

When they sat down to build @Fogo Official , they didn't copy other blockchains. They copied what worked in financial markets.

Here's what they took:

1. Co-location

In TradFi, traders put their servers inside exchange data centers. Why? Shorter cables = faster execution. FOGO does the same validators co-located in Tokyo, side by side .

2. Follow-the-sun

Global banks don't keep everyone awake 24/7. They shift teams across time zones. FOGO rotates consensus zones the same way Asia awake? Tokyo runs. Asia sleeping? London takes over .

3. One engine, max power

Wall Street doesn't run five different trading systems. They pick the fastest and optimize it to death. #fogo uses a single Firedancer client instead of juggling multiple ones like other chains .

The result?

A blockchain that thinks like a hedge fund. 40ms block times. 1.3s finality. Built by people who actually know what low latency means .

Not theory. Just finance-grade engineering applied to crypto.