#fogo $FOGO
🧠 Founders and Core Team Behind Fogo
1. Robert Sagurton — Co-Founder
Conceived the Fogo protocol alongside other co-founders.
Has experience at Jump Crypto, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and other TradFi firms.
Focuses on connecting institutional finance expertise with high-performance blockchain design.
2. Douglas Colkitt — Co-Founder / Initial Contributor
Former quantitative researcher at Citadel Securities and founder of Ambient Finance (an on-chain DEX project).
Brings deep technical and trading system expertise to Fogo’s architecture and execution model.
3. Michael Cahill — CEO and Co-Founder
Leading Fogo’s strategic and technical development as CEO.
Previously served in leadership roles at Morgan Stanley, Jump Crypto, and was a core contributor to the Pyth Network oracle project.
🛠️ Development and Engineering Support
Douro Labs
The primary engineering team developing Fogo’s protocol stack.
Also known for building the Pyth Network, a high-performance oracle system that integrates natively with Fogo for real-time market data.
Douro Labs has contributors from notable institutions and companies, including traditional finance and blockchain engineering backgrounds.
🧩 Team Expertise & Vision
Together, the founders and Douro Labs merge high-frequency trading systems knowledge, institutional finance insight, and blockchain infrastructure development to build the Fogo protocol — emphasizing low latency, high throughput (40 ms block times), and compatibility with Solana’s tooling and smart contract ecosystem.