Recently researching Fogo's white paper and actual architecture, especially its touted parallel execution model. It's not the only player in parallel execution; Sui and Aptos are also involved, and Monad is lurking in the background. As someone who has been harvested by various 'high-performance public chains', I specifically ran some data on its test nodes.
In practice, Fogo's handling of state conflicts is indeed more aggressive than the current Solana. When processing transactions with non-overlapping states, its throughput data looks impressive, basically able to utilize the full bandwidth. However, once it encounters hot accounts, the advantages of parallelism instantly turn into serial queuing. It's like a supermarket having 100 checkout counters, but everyone just wants to buy that one special-priced egg, ultimately still needing to queue at the same window.
Compared to Sui, Fogo’s path dependency advantage based on SVM lies in the low migration cost for developers. Things written in Rust can be modified and moved over from Solana easily. But the disadvantages are also clear; Sui's Object model is actually more intuitive in handling asset ownership, and although the learning cost is high, the safety ceiling might be higher. Fogo's current strategy resembles 'brutal aesthetics', relying on hardware resources and code optimizations to push performance, rather than doing a thorough reconstruction of the underlying logic.
Another hidden issue is the centralization risk of nodes. To pursue extreme millisecond block times, the hardware requirements for validators are too high. I looked at the recommended configuration, and this is simply not a game that ordinary retail investors can participate in. If in the future the nodes are controlled by a few large institutions, then I have doubts about its censorship resistance. Don't forget, blockchain is not just a database; the degree of decentralization is the real protection.
In the past few days, there have occasionally been individual RPC nodes reporting errors, which, although not affecting the overall situation, indicate that the robustness of the infrastructure still needs improvement. Stop staring at TPS to refresh data all day; improving the foundational support is the real deal. After all, no one wants to store large amounts of money on a chain that, while fast, could crash at any moment.
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