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Over the past couple of days, I keep seeing on-chain data “hiccup” and lag. But actually, it’s not that the chain has stopped—it's the layer of data I’m looking at that’s catching its breath… Subgraphs/indexers need to first fetch the new blocks, parse them, and write them into storage. The moment you refresh, if it hasn’t caught up to the head block yet, you’ll see something like: “It shows transactions happened, but the list hasn’t changed.” On top of that, there’s RPC rate limiting. Especially on testnets—where there are incentives and people constantly trying to rack up points—when too many requests come in, they get queued or even rejected. The end result feels like delays, errors, and occasionally empty data. I don’t know whether the mainnet will issue tokens, but when everyone is crowding the entrance, the quality of the data source affects your mindset more than you’d expect. I don’t regret the outcome—I regret that when I saw the stutter, I was so anxious to adjust my positions. Later I realized it was just the data running half a step behind… Anyway, I’d rather check two sources now, align them, and then make a move.