Recently, a lot of people have been saying, “Why does on-chain data lag a bit?”—but it’s not necessarily your network being slow. Sometimes it’s because the indexer/subgraph hasn’t caught up with the latest blocks yet: like the instant a vinyl turntable drops the needle, it jitters for a moment. And on top of that, with RPC rate limiting, everyone crowds in to check balances and refresh unlock calendars, so the nodes start “queueing.” What you end up seeing is lag, missing one or two entries, and even a brief reversion to old data.

In the past couple of days, staking unlocks and token unlock calendars have been dug up again. Once the fear of selling pressure and the anxiety kick in, the query volume gets even more intense. The on-chain data hasn’t changed—people just get anxious first. Either way, when I check the data myself, I just wait a few seconds, switch to a different RPC, and don’t keep staring at the needle dancing… As for which data source you believe is more reliable, it all comes down to how you see it.