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These days, I’ve seen new L1/L2 projects trying to boost TVL through incentives again.
Old users curse "mining and selling" while rushing in at the same time.
Actually, I’m more worried about this: you think you're watching "real-time on the chain," but the "chain" you're looking at might not even be the latest.
To put it simply, your wallet/dashboard/robot relies on intermediary layers like nodes, RPC, and indexers.
RPCs will queue and rate-limit, nodes might be a few blocks behind, and indexers, to save costs, may delay synchronization or even reorganize (reorg) and modify data afterward.
So, the holdings, transactions, and TVL changes you see might already be "the truth from half an hour ago."
Anyway, I now compare signals from two sources on the chain, preferring to confirm more slowly rather than be led by delayed data into emotional chasing and panic selling.