Recently, when looking at Dune/browser, people keep asking me, "Why did the data freeze for a moment? Is the chain down again?"… Actually, many times it's not the chain's problem; it's the middlemen gasping for air. When you check a transaction, behind the page it either goes through RPC to fetch raw data from the chain, or uses an indexer/subgraph—services that "pre-organize the data." The speed of the former depends on the node and rate limiting, while the latter depends on how far it has synchronized, whether it has rebuilt, or if there's an error parsing a specific event.

RPC rate limiting is even more realistic: if you query a dozen addresses at once or run a script, it will directly give you a 429, making you wait 3 to 5 seconds, just like during peak food delivery times… Anyway, don’t jump to conspiracy theories if it stalls. By the way, I just thought of the recent NFT royalty disputes—secondary markets want liquidity, creators want income, and data works the same way: everyone wants "instant results for free," but someone has to pay for the servers/indexers, and in the end, it just becomes a daily "data freeze." That’s all for now; I’ll keep browsing the block explorer.