Recently, people keep asking me, "Isn't on-chain real-time?" I’ve actually wrestled with this too. The transaction or interaction you see is behind layers of intermediaries like nodes, RPC, and indexes: RPCs sometimes glitch or rate-limit, indexes need to fetch and organize data, and sometimes you have to roll back and redo after reorganizing. So what you see as "on-chain" might already be a few minutes or even longer behind... To put it simply, it’s not that the chain isn’t real, but that the window you’re looking through might not be the same one.

A couple of days ago, discussions about economic collapses in blockchain games also felt similar: on the dashboard, activity looks lively and data looks good, but when inflation and studio pumping kick in, the price drops and spirals downward. Anyway, I now believe more in "slower and more confirmations," rather than getting excited over a single chart. That’s all for now, I’m going back to work.