#fogo @Fogo Official $FOGO
At the end of 2025, in a small room in Mau, Gautam spent all night poring over the charts. Solana had speed, but every limit order was being stolen by bots. The pain of slippage, the anger of delayed fills-everything was burning inside. One night, he closed the screen and said, "That's it! I'll build the chain myself where trading isn't a war, it's a victory."
He picked up the phone and called an old friend-a Firedancer-obsessed engineer. "Brother, leave Solana aside, we'll build a new L1 based purely on Firedancer. Multi-local zones, sub-40ms blocks, order book enshrined on L1. Gasless, no excuses."
The two wrote code day and night, co-locating validators in trading hubs. No big funding drama-just 13.5M raised from believers. People came to the testnet, games like FogoFishing showed volume, but the real test was the mainnet.
January 2026, chain live. Gautam bridged USDC, placed a perp limit on Valiant. The order was matched-in 42ms. Heart pounding. For the first time, the blockchain didn't stop him, but supported him.
Today he says, "No, Fogo, this is my revenge-for every second I wasted." Not the chain, this is one trader's revenge.