Fogo doesn’t feel like “one more L1” so much as an exchange engine that happens to be a blockchain. Built on the Solana Virtual Machine, it leans on a Firedancer-based client and a multi-local, co-located validator design to chase ~40 ms blocks while staying compatible with the existing Solana dev stack.
The big recent milestone: Fogo’s public mainnet went live on January 15, 2026, following a roughly $7M token sale and day-one listings on major venues like Binance and KuCoin, plus others. Live from launch are trading-centric pieces—orderbook DEXs, lending markets, native price feeds—built to exploit that latency instead of just benchmark it.
If Fogo can keep those 40 ms blocks steady once bots, market-makers, and high-frequency strategies really crowd in, it won’t need slogans; traders will simply route there first.