Fogo is using the Solana Virtual Machine as a timing engine, not a portability story: parallel execution is the baseline, and the chain is tuned to keep
Confirmations steady when flow gets chaotic. The client is built on Firedancer and the consensus design is explicitly multi local with validators co
located in zones to squeeze network latency toward hardware limits. In testnet terms they are not vague about it: 40 millisecond block target, 375 block
leader terms so one producer holds the wheel for about 15 seconds, and 90,000 block epochs about one hour with consensus rotating to a different zone each epoch.
That is a clear bet that predictable cadence beats raw peak numbers for on chain trading style workloads.
