When people hear that @Fogo Official is a high-performance Layer 1 using the Solana Virtual Machine, the first instinct is to focus on speed. That’s usually the headline. But after sitting with it for a bit, the more interesting part isn’t the performance. It’s the choice.
Building a new chain already means starting over in many ways. New rules. New ecosystem. New expectations. So deciding to anchor it to the Solana VM feels less like a technical flex and more like a practical move. You can usually tell when a team wants familiarity to matter.
The Solana VM isn’t just a piece of code. It carries habits. Developers know how it behaves. They understand how programs execute, how accounts are structured, how parallel processing changes the way you think about state. #fogo stepping into that world instead of designing its own VM from scratch shifts the tone entirely.
That’s where things get interesting. It’s not trying to rewrite how execution should work. It’s asking something simpler: what happens if we keep this model, but build a separate chain around it?
Over time, it becomes obvious that this reduces friction quietly. Builders don’t need to relearn everything. The mental model stays familiar. The question changes from “is this a new system?” to “how does this system feel in a different setting?”
And maybe that’s the point.
Not louder. Not radically different. Just another path using a structure people already understand, and letting it evolve from there.
