I’ve seen “fast chain” debates end the same way every time: the TPS screenshots look great… until a real trading window shows up and the only thing that matters is whether money can move in and out fast enough to count.
That’s why Fogo stands out to me. It’s SVM-based, so if you already live in Solana tooling, you don’t rebuild your whole stack—you keep your programs and workflows, make minor tweaks, and point everything at a Fogo RPC.
The trading-first story is the plumbing:
FluxRPC: a dedicated RPC layer so reads stay responsive when things get busy
Wormhole + Portal Bridge: familiar rails for moving value across
Fogoscan: easy transaction + balance checking when you want proof, not promises
Pyth Lazer: low-latency oracle inputs
Goldsky: indexing so apps and analytics can query cleanly
And there’s a quiet truth behind it: this kind of behavior assumes serious infrastructure—strong hardware and a validator approach that doesn’t let weak setups drag performance down.
So yeah, people will call Fogo “fast.” I’d say it’s built for flow—and speed is just what happens when every part of the pipeline is designed to not hesitate when markets don’t.