Late at night, I was checking blockchain data again, getting more anxious the more I looked: for the same transaction, my explorer hadn't shown it yet, but the group was already shouting "It's seen"... I only realized later that what you see as "on-chain" is often just the version provided by nodes/RPCs/indexers, not the real-time view of the blockchain itself. Sometimes RPCs lag, load balancing switches, or indexers fall behind; a delay of a few seconds to several minutes is normal. Relying on it for short-term judgments can easily scare you.

Recently, after the cross-chain bridge issues, I see everyone suddenly turning into the "wait for confirmation" camp, even waiting before acting on a ridiculous price reported by an oracle. Honestly, it's not that everyone is more cautious, but they've been educated by delays and inconsistencies: you think you're monitoring the chain, but in reality, you're watching the state of a bunch of intermediary layers. Anyway, when I see anomalies now, I switch between two or three RPCs to cross-check, or I get too emotional too quickly... Lone wolves have this downside—they have no one to back them up.