Key Concepts of Fogo

Follow the Sun

At the core of Fogo’s design is the idea of maximising throughput and minimising latency.
One of the most innovative approaches to achieve this is multi-local consensus, better known as Follow the Sun.

In finance, liquidity naturally migrates across the world’s financial hubs — from Asia to Europe to North America. Fogo applies the same principle to its validators: they are co-located by region and activated based on where market activity is strongest.

When trading peaks in Asia, consensus happens in Asia. When markets open in Europe,consensus shifts to Europe — and so on.

This ensures that block validation always takes place as close as possible to the users who are most active, minimising latency at every moment of the day.
In short, consensus literally follows the sun.

Multi-Local Consensus

Blockchain consensus is how validators agree on which blocks are valid.
Traditionally, validators are scattered around the globe, which increases the distance data must travel and therefore increases latency.

Fogo’s approach is different: validators are grouped into regional clusters.
By reducing the physical distance between nodes, consensus can be reached much faster.
This is called co-located consensus, and combined with the Follow the Sun approach, it provides both performance and resilience.

Firedancer

Another cornerstone of Fogo’s performance is Firedancer, a high-performance validator client originally built for Solana.
Firedancer was engineered by Jump Crypto to push blockchain infrastructure to the limits of modern hardware, with extreme throughput and ultra-low latency.

By standardising on Firedancer, Fogo avoids bottlenecks created by slower or less optimised clients. This ensures that the entire network is aligned on the fastest possible execution environment.

Validators

Validators are the backbone of any blockchain. They secure the network by verifying transactions, producing blocks, and enforcing the rules of consensus.

In Fogo, validators are not only responsible for security, but also for optimising performance. By clustering in key financial regions and operating under the Follow the Sun model, validators make sure the network stays close to traders, liquidity, and market activity.

This validator strategy makes Fogo uniquely suited for real-time trading and high-frequency financial applications.

In Summary

• Follow the Sun keeps consensus close to active markets to minimise latency.
• Multi-local consensus reduces physical distance between validators for faster block validation.
• Firedancer provides extreme throughput and ultra-low latency as the standard client.
• Validators secure the chain while optimising performance for trading and finance.

Together, these concepts make Fogo a Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for speed, reliability, and real-time finance.

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