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Today I got a little frustrated again by on-chain data "lagging"… It’s not your internet connection, often it’s the indexer/Subgraph slowly syncing, or your RPC being rate-limited, and suddenly it feels like the whole world has stopped. To put it simply, the "balance/transactions/task completion" you see all need someone to organize and present them to you, and if any link in the chain is delayed, you have to wait.
I’ve now learned to be patient: wait for confirmation, wait for the page to refresh, wait until I’ve thought things through before clicking next… Especially with chain games, when one card is drawn, someone is eager to add positions or replenish energy, but with inflation + studio manipulation, the coin price spirals downward and it’s even harder to sleep. Anyway, I’d rather go slower and not open high leverage just to avoid waiting, it’s really not worth it.