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I used to really think that "on-chain = real-time," and as a beginner, I would get nervous just seeing a large transfer alert. Turns out, I found out later that the other party had already completed their action somewhere else before my alert popped up... Now I understand that what you see on the chain is actually a version "translated" for you by nodes/RPCs/indexers. Different providers have different synchronization speeds, caching, and reassembly processes, and even the timestamp for the same transaction can vary across tools. Recently, there's been a lot of talk about delays and potential misinformation from on-chain data tools and tagging systems. I, for one, am increasingly skeptical of taking a single dashboard as the truth. Now I usually open two or three RPCs to compare, then check the original event and block height. If it's slow, so be it—at least I won't be led astray by the "late on-chain" signals. Anxiety aside, the priority is to stay alive.