My finger presses. Not hovers. Presses.
RPC returns. 200. Success. Fogo's Firedancer validator client queued. No kernel buffer. No delay. Just... shift. I check explorer. Pending. Not failed. Not included. Waiting.
Refresh. Slot 4,203,891. Mine? No. 4,203,892. Packing stage looked at my declaration... upfront, writable—and saw the Jupiter swap lock. Decided. Next slot. No warning. No log. No pause. Just... next. And next.
I thought—no. Ethereum, revert. Solana, error. Here, silently. Sealevel. SIMD lanes open. Other vectors. Not mine. Fogo ( @Fogo Official ) Solana virtual machine runtime detected busy. Not stalled. Deferred. 40ms sub-block time marched. My tx walks behind.
Timestamp. Fogo layer-1's 1.3s finality. But mine needed 80ms. Two slots. First slot—my slot—space. But scheduler routed around. Leader handoff. Deterministic. Not elected. Scheduled. My vector, next cycle. Or... wait. Not SIMD. Banking Stage. PrioGraph. Dependency queue. I can't see the graph. Just the slot.
Try again. Same account. Same timing. Same, different. No. Same. Slot +1 still. Deterministic execution. Predictable. Invisible. Votes locking behind me. Inside Fogo’s parallelized transaction scheduler. Can't rewind. Tokyo zone. Morning light. Sticky humidity. Server ozone. Different hum. Lower pitch. Threads idle. No thermal change. Fastest validator wins. My tx, slow lane. Sits in Firedancer's memory, queued, while PoH ticks.
Check logs. Nothing. No "wait." No "retry." Just inclusion. Later. Clean. Too clean.
Wait. Declaration. Writable. Runtime caught it. Could error. Could warn. Instead... packing order. My urgency. Their sequence. Or—no. My sequence. Just later. Always later.
Doesn't matter. Included. But I'm still watching. 4,203,893. Three ahead. Across Fogo’s real-time block propagation. I can see the slot. Can't touch it. Or—the next. Or after.
Still pressing. Still waiting. Finger sweat on trackpad. No slip. Just stick.