Lately, people keep saying, "It's all written on the chain, why don't you believe it," and I can't help but laugh... The "on-chain" data you're seeing is mostly a translated version provided by your wallet/app through some RPC and indexer, while the node is busy, RPCs are queuing, and the index is rebuilding. The information will be delayed by a beat, and sometimes you haven't seen a transaction yet, but someone else has already screenshot and popped champagne.

It's a bit like food delivery: the meal has already been prepared at the restaurant, but the platform updates slowly, and the rider's location is drifting. You stare at the page thinking nothing's moved, but in reality, the food is almost at your building. To put it simply, it's not the chain lying; it's your "window" that has latency.

Recently, the NFT royalty disputes are similar—creators see "what I deserve," while the secondary market sees "I want to close the deal quickly." They each screenshot different on-chain data graphs from different times and argue all day... Anyway, as someone like me who’s just a liquidity intern stepping back, I don’t chase the excitement. I just watch who runs first through the faster window.