They asked why the Fogo's validator set isn’t open.
Because 40ms doesn’t wait.
On Fogo’s SVM, entry is not philosophical though. It’s measurable.
Minimum stake. Infra audit. Latency trace.
Zone placement isn’t random, somehow... it’s engineered. Co-located validators. Supermajority zone voting reshapes geography each epoch.
If you might be wondering... Fogo layer-1's Multi-local consensus only holds if every node clears the slot window.
Miss it once? You’re late.
Miss it twice? You’re noise.
Firedancer standardization removes client variance. No “different implementation” excuses. Same execution path. Same timing discipline. The leader schedule rotates whether you’re ready or not.
PoH ticks. Tower locks. The slot closes.
Fogo's block execution, Forty milliseconds is shorter than hesitation. On Fogo, that’s the difference between validator and spectator.
Open sets sound good in theory.
But SVM at 40ms doesn’t price in theory. It prices in hardware, proximity, and uptime.
If your rig can’t keep up, the network won’t slow down for you.
That’s the rule.