✈️🧳 A thread (but not really because Square doesn’t do threads, but pretend with me).
Real story:
September 2025. Korea Blockchain Week. I’m jetlagged, caffeinated, and sitting in a venue in Seoul watching dancers in matching outfits perform on a stage that says
$FOGO Bytedance Fogo Fest 2025.
It’s hype. The energy is immaculate. This is the birth of a new L1.
Then @therealchaseeb from Solana Mobile replies to the video with three words that change history:
“You mean BOGO Fest?”
And suddenly Fogo is no longer just a high-performance SVM chain with sub-40ms latency and Firedancer under the hood.
It’s BOGO. Buy One Get One. The chain that gives you two blocks for the price of one.
The comments section LOST it.
“Bogo fest i like.”
“This is the least cringe thing I’ve seen from them.”
Someone immediately started drafting the
$FOGO whitepaper, I just know it.
And this THIS is why I’m still here.
@Fogo Official has Wall Street cred. Citadel. Jump. Morgan Stanley. $13.5M raised. SVM optimized until it screams.
But they also let a typo become lore.
They let the community run with the bit. They let “BOGO” sit in the replies and breathe. They don’t take themselves so seriously that they forget crypto is supposed to be fun.
You can have ultra-low latency AND inside jokes about dance performances. You can have institutional capital AND a fisherman staring at your bags. These things are not mutually exclusive.
So here’s to Fogo.
The fastest chain that also somehow became a fishing simulator AND a BOGO meme.
I flew 15 hours. I watched the dancers. I saw the typo.
0 regrets. 🕺
#fogo #BOGOFest #IBoughtTheTicket