I’ve noticed how every new phone launch eventually sounds the same. Faster chip. Better battery. Slightly brighter screen. After a while, speed alone stops meaning much. Blockchains have drifted into a similar pattern. Lower latency, higher throughput, tighter block times. On paper, they look impressive. In practice, they blur together.
That’s the quiet risk of being “another fast chain.” If speed is the headline, someone else can always claim to be faster next month. For , the challenge isn’t proving that blocks settle in milliseconds. It’s proving that those milliseconds change behavior. Fast block times simply mean transactions confirm quickly. That matters for traders who don’t want to wait, but it matters even more for developers building apps that feel instant instead of fragile.
On Binance Square, dashboards reward visible metrics. Transactions per second, total value locked, daily active wallets. Those numbers travel well in rankings and AI-driven summaries. The temptation is obvious: optimize for what shows up on the leaderboard. But rented activity fades. If users only arrive for incentives, they leave when emissions drop. We’ve seen that cycle before.
Fogo’s real test is whether its speed reduces friction in ways people actually notice. Gas-free interactions, smoother execution, fewer failed trades. Small things. They compound. Still, there’s risk. If differentiation stays technical and never becomes experiential, the market will compress it into a single word: fast.
And “fast” alone rarely builds loyalty.
