Today’s rain made me doubt my life, the coffee in the car jostled all the way to cool down… When I got home, I wanted to check on-chain data to calm my nerves, but I found that “what I see on the chain” is also quite often late.

Honestly, when you check your balance, look at transactions, or browse various dashboards, there are several layers in between: slow node synchronization, RPC hiccups, the indexer still queuing to process, and you might think you haven’t received/done a transaction/not on the chain, then you shake your hand and resend a transaction, ending up paying twice in gas fees. After being rug-pulled twice, I’m now especially afraid of this “self-PUA caused by on-chain data delays.”

Recently, new L1/L2 projects are incentivizing to pull TVL, and I understand the complaints about “mining, selling”: when you see the lively TVL/transaction volume, it might just be a delayed + packaged perception. By the time you realize it, they’ve already withdrawn… Anyway, I’m testing with small positions now, preferring to be a bit slow rather than being scared by fake real-time data and making reckless moves.