Most blockchain consensus is designed to accommodate geographic distribution. Validators anywhere in the world. The cost of that is latency.

Latency tolerance is acceptable for consumer applications. For capital markets, it's an infrastructure constraint.

Fogo's consensus is designed around colocation. Validators in the same physical infrastructure. Consensus rounds that complete faster because the network round-trip is microseconds, not hundreds of milliseconds.

This is the same infrastructure logic that powers DMA-grade electronic exchanges. Physical proximity is a performance specification.