These past few days, looking at on-chain data made me laugh at myself: You think "on-chain transparency," but what you're actually seeing is the version pieced together by nodes/RPCs/indexers. Even a few seconds of lag can cause market sentiment to swing wildly. Especially during airdrop season, everyone is watching task platforms, and with anti-witching measures ramping up and points being displayed publicly, the airdrop hunters are competing like clocking in for work. Meanwhile, your page is still spinning... To put it simply, it's not that the chain is slow, but that your entry point is slow.

Now I’ve set a smaller goal: not to chase the very first second of "discovery," but to focus on a few overlooked small pools. Check them a couple more times after a while; I’d rather confirm a little later than get caught up in false updates and lose my rhythm. Anyway, if I make a mistake, I admit it—at least that’s better than having my mindset explode from delayed data.