I used to really think that "on-chain data = real-time truth," and if the candlestick charts and explorers didn't match, I thought someone was messing around. Now I realize that often it's not the chain lying to you, but the nodes/RPC you're using queuing, the indexers catching up: for the same transaction, some see it a few seconds early, others refresh half a minute late, and different interfaces can even give you different "confirmed/unconfirmed" experiences... To put it simply, what you see as "on-chain" might also be "on-chain + intermediary cache + delay." Recently, with staking and shared security stacking these yields, being called "nested" or "layered," I’ve become more cautious: information delays + layers of packaging make it easiest to manipulate emotions. Anyway, I now treat what I see as "near real-time," a slight delay isn’t a big deal, and in the long run, this small lag isn’t worth getting worked up over. A beginner’s misconception: on-chain is absolutely synchronized. My current understanding: the chain itself is solid, but the path to the chain isn’t necessarily smooth.