Recently, people keep asking me: why does on-chain data keep "hiccuping," even though the blocks are coming out fine? To be honest, what you're seeing isn't the blockchain itself, but a chain of intermediaries: indexers are scanning logs and building databases, Subgraphs need to sync first before you can query them, and RPCs might also be rate-limited or queued. Any hiccup in any of these links makes you feel like the "chain has stopped," but in reality, it's just your data pipeline that's clogged.

Now, with modularization and the DA layer narrative making developers excited as if it's the New Year, users are confused: I just clicked a button, do I need to understand where the data is going? Anyway, whenever I see latency, I first suspect: is the RPC overwhelmed? Is the indexer lagging behind? Don't jump to the black swan hypothesis right away... although I do fear real black swans. That's all for now, I need to get back to work.