These days, I’ve been seeing everyone fixated on staking unlocks and token unlock calendars, with screens full of “selling pressure is coming.” I’ll take a look myself first: the on-chain data you see might already be a bit “late.”

Node synchronization can be fast or slow, RPCs also cache and rate-limit, and during peak times they might return old blocks; plus, many people use indexing services (organizing on-chain data into a searchable format), which are not real-time magic—batch processing, reorganization, and delays are quite common. As a result: you might think a large transfer just moved into an exchange, but it could be from a few minutes ago; you might think “nothing’s happening yet,” but it’s just that you haven’t refreshed on your end. Anyway, when I see very consistent emotional calls, I first switch to two different RPCs and check the block height, so I don’t let my anxiety be based on delays.