Last night, I was watching on the chain as others "entered the market early," I was still taking screenshots and making notes, and only after refreshing did I realize that the record I was looking at was almost half a beat late... To put it simply, you think you're watching "real-time on the chain," but actually you're connected to a node/RPC, plus an indexer bringing you the "prepared food." Sometimes it's not the market targeting you, but your information source itself is a beat slow.

Especially recently, everyone is incentivized to test the network, watch points, and in the group chat, people are guessing whether the mainnet will issue tokens. I see many people haven't even traded yet but are already imagining airdrop scenarios. But if your connected RPC stalls for a moment, or the indexer delays, the "what position I am in" you see might be inaccurate, and your mindset can be easily misled.

My current clumsy method: before key operations, switch between two or three RPCs to verify, don't just trust one website's "confirmed," it's better to confirm slowly than to be misled by fake real-time data. Those who have been caught in the trap fear not slow speed, but thinking they're fast.