Lately, people keep saying "I saw it on the chain," and I want to ask first: whose chain are you actually looking at... Block production is one thing, but the wallet you're connected to via RPC might be queuing, and the indexer reorganizes the data, which is another rhythm. If any layer gets congested, what you see will be "late." To put it simply, the on-chain data hasn't changed; it's your information pipeline that's jittery.

During airdrop season, it's even more obvious. Task platforms implement anti-witch-hunting measures and a points system, and everyone starts competing like at work, clicking interactively like crazy. RPCs get overwhelmed, indexes can't keep up, and the result is you think you didn't complete the task or didn't receive the tokens, causing anxiety for half the day... I was staring at the refresh last night until my eyes hurt, then I realized it might just be cache not updated yet. Forget it, I went to sleep. My view isn't absolute—feel free to use latency data to prove me wrong.