My friend called last night. He asks me hey I heard $FOGO claims they will be the fastest blockchain. Is that real or just talk.

I asked him have you ever taken the train from Beijing to Shanghai. He said yeah a few times. I said how long does it take. He said about five hours. I said what if I give you a bullet train instead. He said then maybe three and a half hours.

Thats the difference between FOGO and everyone else.

Now how do they actually do this.

First the validators. @Fogo Official puts them in Tokyo London New York. Right where the trading happens. Right where the exchanges are. When you sit close to someone you talk faster.

Second the follow the sun thing. When Asia is busy Asia runs things. When Europe wakes up Europe takes over. Always the closest zone does the work.

Third the hardware. These are not laptops sitting in someones bedroom. We are talking twenty four core CPUs. One twenty eight gigs of RAM. Fast NVME drives. Stuff you would use to build a gaming PC but they use it to validate blocks.

Fourth the software. Built with Firedancer. Same thing that made Solana fast but now separate and better. This software can handle millions of transactions in one second.

So what does forty milliseconds actually mean.

It means when you click trade its done before you blink. Your order fills right. You get what you paid for. No slippage eating your money.

For people who do arbitrage this speed is everything. One second late and someone else took your profit.

Now look at the team. Robert worked at Jump Crypto. Douglas built Ambient Finance. Michael ran foreign exchange at Morgan Stanley. These guys know what they are doing. They are not here to waste time making fake promises.

Will it actually work. I dont know yet. But I know the people building it have done hard things before.

What do you think. Can #fogo really be the fastest or is this too good to be true.