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Fogo and the Redesign of Validator Availability
Satoshis original design of blockchain engineering has had one fear: the offline node. Every big protocol that came after Satoshis design got this fear and made it even bigger. Ethereum made slashing. Cosmos made jailing. Polkadot made era-based stake forfeiture. All the rules for consensus mechanisms are based on one main idea: a node that is not working is a node that is failing.
Fogo just changed this idea completely.
By doing so it may have found one of the most surprising ideas in designing distributed systems: a network that lets nodes be inactive in a structured way is stronger than one that needs all nodes to be working all the time.
What "Follow the Sun" Actually Means at the Protocol Level
Fogo has a special way of designing its consensus model called "follow the sun". This means that validators move to parts of the world based on when people are trading. When it is daytime in Asia validators go to Singapore or Hong Kong. Then they move to London when it is time for trading and finally to New York when it is time for American trading.
Most people talk about this feature as a way to reduce latency.. It is.. This does not fully explain the deeper change in thinking. What Fogo has really done is make it okay for nodes to be absent at times.
Validators choose which zone to go to through a voting system on the blockchain, where they have to agree on where to go. This way validators have time to set up secure infrastructure in the chosen zone. When a zone is not active. Because it is the time of day or the wrong place. The validators in that zone do not fail. They do not get penalized. They just stop working by design. Let another zone take over.
This is not being lazy. This is being precise and planned.
Antifragility Over Uptime: Rewriting the Definition of Reliable
Traditionally blockchain reliability is measured by how the nodes are online. The goal is to be 99.9% of the time. If a node is offline for a short time it is seen as a threat.
This way of thinking comes from infrastructure like power grids and water systems, where everything has to be working all the time.. Distributed systems like blockchain do not work that way. They are strong because they can still work even if some nodes are offline. The problem is that people have been trying to make blockchain work like infrastructure for too long.
Fogos design recognizes this difference. If a chosen zone goes offline.. If validators cannot agree on where to go next. The protocol automatically switches to a global consensus mode. This mode is slower. It is safe and always working. The fallback plan is not a failure it is a way to make the network work at a pace rather than stopping completely.
Nassim Talebs idea of antifragility is, about systems that do not just survive when things go wrong. Actually get stronger. Fogo does not eliminate the ups and downs of participation. It makes them predictable and structured. A validator zone that goes offline on schedule is not a threat. A validator zone that goes offline without warning is. By making the one part of the protocol Fogo reduces the chance of the second one happening.
#fogo #Fogo @Fogo Official $FOGO
Fogo just changed this idea completely.
By doing so it may have found one of the most surprising ideas in designing distributed systems: a network that lets nodes be inactive in a structured way is stronger than one that needs all nodes to be working all the time.
What "Follow the Sun" Actually Means at the Protocol Level
Fogo has a special way of designing its consensus model called "follow the sun". This means that validators move to parts of the world based on when people are trading. When it is daytime in Asia validators go to Singapore or Hong Kong. Then they move to London when it is time for trading and finally to New York when it is time for American trading.
Most people talk about this feature as a way to reduce latency.. It is.. This does not fully explain the deeper change in thinking. What Fogo has really done is make it okay for nodes to be absent at times.
Validators choose which zone to go to through a voting system on the blockchain, where they have to agree on where to go. This way validators have time to set up secure infrastructure in the chosen zone. When a zone is not active. Because it is the time of day or the wrong place. The validators in that zone do not fail. They do not get penalized. They just stop working by design. Let another zone take over.
This is not being lazy. This is being precise and planned.
Antifragility Over Uptime: Rewriting the Definition of Reliable
Traditionally blockchain reliability is measured by how the nodes are online. The goal is to be 99.9% of the time. If a node is offline for a short time it is seen as a threat.
This way of thinking comes from infrastructure like power grids and water systems, where everything has to be working all the time.. Distributed systems like blockchain do not work that way. They are strong because they can still work even if some nodes are offline. The problem is that people have been trying to make blockchain work like infrastructure for too long.
Fogos design recognizes this difference. If a chosen zone goes offline.. If validators cannot agree on where to go next. The protocol automatically switches to a global consensus mode. This mode is slower. It is safe and always working. The fallback plan is not a failure it is a way to make the network work at a pace rather than stopping completely.
Nassim Talebs idea of antifragility is, about systems that do not just survive when things go wrong. Actually get stronger. Fogo does not eliminate the ups and downs of participation. It makes them predictable and structured. A validator zone that goes offline on schedule is not a threat. A validator zone that goes offline without warning is. By making the one part of the protocol Fogo reduces the chance of the second one happening.
#fogo #Fogo @Fogo Official $FOGO
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