Everyone talks about Fogo like it’s just “SVM speed + low latency.”
But the deeper story is state, not TPS.
When throughput rises, the hardest part isn’t producing blocks fast it’s moving state reliably without the validator choking under real load. And that’s exactly where Fogo’s engineering is pointing right now.
Recent validator updates aren’t marketing numbers. They’re operational warfare: shifting gossip/repair traffic to XDP, enforcing shred version expectations, re-initializing configs because memory layouts changed, and dealing with hugepages fragmentation the kind of boring problems that only show up when a chain is actually preparing for serious throughput.
On the UX side, Sessions mirrors the same philosophy: fewer signatures, less friction, more continuous execution. That’s how you enable thousands of micro-updates without turning every action into a slowdown.
Fogo isn’t racing for headlines.
It’s tightening the state pipeline.
And that’s how real high-performance chains are built.