When Performance Hits Physics, Client Diversity Changes Meaning on Fogo
Something I’ve been thinking about with Fogo is how client diversity behaves once you push blockchain performance toward physical limits. At that point, implementations can’t diverge arbitrarily they start converging on the same architectural choices: networking models, execution pipelines, scheduling strategies. Physics narrows the design space.
So the theoretical security benefit of very different clients shrinks.
On Fogo, where validators operate in a tightly coupled, low latency environment, efficient clients end up looking structurally similar because they’re solving the same constraints the same way. Diversity still exists at the code level, but less at the architectural level.
To me, that reframes the discussion.
It’s not that diversity disappears it’s that at extreme performance, viable implementations naturally align and on Fogo, that alignment comes from physics and incentives, not protocol enforcement.