Last night at 2:30 AM, I was checking on-chain data when the page suddenly froze. My first thought wasn't "bad internet," but rather: I've been rate-limited again during a traffic surge. RPC is like a small shop window; when there are many people, they first ask you to line up on the side. Subgraph/indexers are more like the kitchen preparing ingredients; when new blocks come on-chain, they need to process, index, and then display them to you. If any link in this chain gets overwhelmed, what you see is just "a few seconds of delay."

To put it simply, data also has emotions: it plays dead when busy. The feeling before a blockchain game crashes is quite similar—when inflation is maxed out, studios rush in, and finally the coin price spirals. On-chain looks lively, but behind the scenes, it's already smoking... Anyway, when I see "a brief freeze," I assume the system is protecting itself, not that I missed some divine opportunity. That's it for now—don't mistake me for liquidity.