performance L1.
Solana Virtual Machine.
Parallel execution.
But speed is the least interesting part after the first week.
Using SVM isn’t just a technical choice, it’s a psychological one. Fogo is choosing to inherit an execution model that’s already been battle-tested under stress. That means no novelty shield. No “it’s early, give it time.” If it slows, people will notice. If it breaks, the comparison is immediate.
That’s a higher bar than most new L1s set for themselves.
SVM environments are built for workloads that don’t tolerate latency — high-frequency trading logic, real-time applications, dense state updates. Fogo stepping into that space means it’s implicitly saying: performance is baseline, not marketing.
What interests me is what Fogo doesn’t seem to be doing.
It’s not reinventing execution semantics. It’s not launching a custom VM just to differentiate. It’s anchoring itself to a runtime developers already understand. That lowers migration friction. If you’ve built for Solana’s execution model, you don’t start from zero here.
But that familiarity also exposes weakness faster.
Parallel execution is powerful, but coordination complexity grows with usage. The real test for Fogo won’t be peak TPS in isolation. It will be behavior under unpredictable demand. Can fees remain stable? Can throughput stay boring? High-performance chains don’t fail because they’re slow — they fail when consistency cracks under pressure.
There’s also a strategic undertone here.
In a landscape saturated with new base layers, reinventing the VM layer might be unnecessary risk. Fogo’s approach feels more like optimizing the rails around something proven rather than trying to redesign the engine itself.
That can look less innovative.
It might also be more durable.
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