Fogo isn’t chasing speed for headlines. It’s chasing the moment when on-chain trading stops feeling like a delay and starts feeling like a decision.
The idea is simple but uncomfortable. Markets run on timing. If consensus drifts, execution drifts. If execution drifts, fairness disappears. So Fogo tightens the loop. Familiar SVM rails so builders don’t hesitate. Performance-first validators so stress doesn’t rewrite outcomes. Local consensus so agreement lands before volatility does.
But that creates a tension most chains avoid. The faster the venue, the more proximity matters. The cleaner the timing, the louder the fairness questions become. Fast mode, fallback mode, operators who can live at the performance edge. This is infrastructure thinking, not ideology.
If it works, on-chain markets stop defending themselves from latency and start behaving like real venues. If it doesn’t, it proves something just as important: you can’t redesign time without redesigning decentralization.