I didn’t really notice Fogo at first. Another Solana adjacent L1 doesn’t exactly stand out in 2026 especially when most of them lead with the same “faster, cheaper, more scalable” pitch. What caught my attention wasn’t marketing, it was seeing a few developers I trust quietly experimenting with it without much noise around it.

The main draw is obvious: it’s built around the Solana Virtual Machine. For builders coming from Solana, that familiarity matters more than people admit. Same mental models, similar tooling, Rust smart contracts, parallel execution. You don’t need to relearn an entirely new paradigm just to deploy. That lowers friction in a way most “new L1s” fail to achieve.

But I’m still cautious. SVM compatibility alone doesn’t guarantee a real ecosystem. Liquidity is thin, DeFi is shallow, and outside of infra experiments, it’s not obvious where sustained user demand comes from yet. A chain can be technically solid and still end up as a ghost town.

So Fogo feels less like a breakout narrative and more like a quiet infrastructure bet. #fogo @Fogo Official $FOGO