when I first saw Fogo, I mentally filed it under “another fast L1 trying to ride the SVM wave.” I didn’t think the market needed one more chain promising performance.
But the more I looked, the more I realized Fogo isn’t trying to out-market anyone — it’s leaning into a very specific idea: high-performance infrastructure for latency-sensitive use cases. Running on the Solana Virtual Machine means it inherits parallel execution at the core, not as an afterthought. That matters if you care about things like gaming, NFT mints, or fast DeFi interactions where milliseconds actually change outcomes.
What shifted my view wasn’t hype — it was seeing serious builders paying attention. When experienced devs start experimenting quietly, that’s usually a signal. Performance isn’t just about TPS screenshots; it’s about consistency under load.
I’m still watching. But I don’t scroll past it anymore.