Can Fogo maintain its performance during peak hours?
I am no longer convinced by performance promises, I only trust peak hours, when a chain either holds its rhythm, or breaks in plain sight.
With Fogo, the focus is the ability to keep pace under load, not just fast when the road is empty, because peak hours are when real users and real flow show up together, I have watched too many chains post pretty TPS while finality stretches out, queues swell, transactions drop, and the crowd drifts from expectation to ridicule, it is truly ironic, trust can start collapsing from a few minutes of pending.
Compared with systems that chase throughput at any cost, I think Fogo leans into operational discipline, managing the flow right at the entry gate so the queue does not explode, classifying demand, constraining transaction patterns that tend to create state conflicts, and routing the rest through a cleaner execution path, then at the execution layer, reducing collisions so transactions that do not touch the same state can run in parallel, and when spikes hit, latency does not rise in a cascading way.
Real performance always reveals itself in peak hour data, block time, finality, TPS by hour, dropped transaction rate, queue depth, node health, and how the team intervenes when spikes happen, perhaps Fogo only needs to let the numbers speak.
What impressed me is that $FOGO emphasizes keeping a stable rhythm when it is busiest, instead of only trying to prove it is the fastest when everything is quiet.