I’ll be honest — the first time I saw @Fogo Official mentioned, my reaction was basically, “another fast L1 riding Solana’s shadow.” I’ve seen that movie before. Most don’t age well.

What kept pulling me back wasn’t the speed talk. It was how little friction there seemed to be for Solana-native devs. Rust didn’t feel like an afterthought here. Anchor support showing up early mattered more to me than any TPS number. That’s usually where these “compatible” chains quietly fail — they say SVM, but the tooling tells a different story. With Fogo, the tooling alignment feels intentional, not cosmetic.

What I kept noticing was how familiar everything felt. Not exciting-familiar. Just… usable. Like this was built by people who actually shipped on Solana and got tired of fighting the same bottlenecks.

The bridge question is still the fuzzy part for me. Solana ↔ #Fogo makes sense conceptually, but bridges are where narratives go to die if execution slips even a little. Security, liquidity fragmentation, UX — all unresolved until it’s live and stressed.

So yeah, I’m not fully convinced yet. But I’m paying attention. Mostly because $FOGO doesn’t seem desperate to convince me back. And that usually means something real is still forming.