I just realized recently that what everyone calls "seen on the chain" is actually quite similar to watching a live stream replay... The wallet you use, the market page, the bot, behind the scenes are all nodes/RPC/indexing services feeding data. If a node syncs slowly, RPC has high load, or the indexer queues and rebuilds, the transaction you saw, the liquidation, or even the status of a certain contract might be "late." So sometimes it's not the chain deceiving you, but the window you're looking through has latency, and it might not even tell you.

When I encounter "why is what I see different from others," my first reaction isn't conspiracy theory. I first switch RPC, check the block height, or directly look at the raw event logs in the browser, at least to determine whether the chain has changed or the page is just slow.

What I fear most isn't losing money, but being led astray by the delayed "truth on the chain," causing my emotions to make premature trades. By the way, I recently thought about social mining and fan tokens, that set of "attention as mining." To put it plainly, attention also relies on these data pipelines for settlement. If the pipeline gets clogged, the excitement might all be just cached data. Anyway, I’ll stay alert.