I started recording on-chain data and occasionally "hiccuping" to figure out where the delay was, only to realize that many times it's not the protocol being down, but rather a bottleneck on my side for data retrieval: the indexer hasn't caught up with the latest blocks, the Subgraph is waiting for it to finish scanning events, and RPC calls are being rate-limited, causing timeouts... It looks like a pause, but actually it's just queuing. Anyway, I've now relaxed my mindset; if the data is slow, it's slow. No need to rush to draw conclusions. By the way, hardware wallets have been out of stock lately, and phishing links are everywhere. The more these "stalls" happen, the easier it is to slip up and click randomly. Better to wait two more minutes than to send money to scammers.