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Lately, I've been feeling like the on-chain data is "lagging" when I refresh, but actually, it's often not your network connection. The indexer/subgraph needs to process the new blocks first before recalculating, and when there's a hot contract, it gets busy and queues up; plus, with RPC rate limiting, if you make too many requests, you'll get a 429 error, and the frontend just shows spinning circles. To put it simply, the "time points" you see on your browser, subgraph, and your own node for the same on-chain event may not be exactly the same. Recently, we've been discussing rate cut expectations and the dollar index moving together with risk assets, but I'm actually more cautious: when the market fluctuates, query volume surges, and data services become more prone to stuttering. Anyway, now I add a "buffer" to my interactions: check again after a few minutes for the same action, avoid refreshing wildly, and also keep track of the costs. I no longer believe the intuition that "data delay = project has issues"; many times, it's just infrastructure catching its breath.