These past few days, I was "educated" again about on-chain data: you think you're viewing real-time data, but actually it's the node you're connected to or the RPC (remote interface used by wallets/frontends) queuing to output data, and the indexer might still be a bit slow. So for the same transaction, some people see it early, others see it late, and in chat rooms, people start questioning each other, "Are you Photoshopping this?"… Basically, it's not the chain lying to you; it's the window you're looking through that has latency.

What’s even more heartbreaking is that recently, everyone has been complaining that validators are making too much profit and that MEV is causing unfair ordering. I can also understand that sense of helplessness: you stare at the block like you're watching a train station timetable, only to find that the timetable itself is delayed in updates. Anyway, I’ve now gotten used to checking two or three sources; if they don’t match, don’t rush to blame the chain first—blame your own naivety instead.