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Lately, people keep asking me, "Why does on-chain data keep lagging?" Honestly, most of the time it's not your internet connection; it's those middlemen, the "translators," catching their breath. The project front end isn't directly querying nodes; it's more often using indexers or subgraphs, which require first organizing transaction records into a table you can understand at a glance. Once there's an upgrade, hard fork, or even downtime for maintenance, and data sources are replayed or resynchronized, and the indexer falls behind a bit, it looks like everything is paused. Plus, with RPC rate limiting, during peak hours, when many people hit refresh simultaneously, you'll get a 429 error, and the front end just spins in circles... So don't rush to accuse the project of "faking," first check if everyone is just sharing the same faucet. Anyway, I tend to hold back when I feel liquidity is threatened, and when emotions run high plus data delays happen, I prefer to step back first. I might be stubborn about it, but I still act quickly. As for whether this wave of mainstream blockchain upgrades will lead to migrations? I don't know, but if they do, the first to get hit on day one will probably be all kinds of data services.