Recently, I kept encountering that "lag" moment when drawing small charts on the chain, even though the blocks have been produced, the data still feels a bit slow. Later, I thought about it and it makes sense: indexers/subgraphs need to scan through the events before storing them, and RPCs also have rate limits. The more requests you make, the more they queue up, making the frontend look like it's offline… Actually, the chain isn't broken; I was just too impatient.

What's even funnier is that outside, people are interpreting ETF capital flows and U.S. stock market risk appetite as directly linked to crypto price movements. I was watching the TVL's authenticity, but when the data lagged, my mood was immediately affected, almost wanting to quit and uninstall a few market monitoring apps. I held back, lowered the sampling frequency first, switched to another node, and waited a bit longer—anyway, a slower pace wouldn't cause me to miss anything.