Recently, many people have been complaining, "On-chain data is slow to load, and transaction records take half a day to appear." Actually, most of the time, it's not the blockchain itself that's slow, but the data service layer you're using that's struggling... For example, Subgraph/indexers need to first process each block before organizing the data into a format you can directly query. If nodes go offline, reindex, or they are catching up on historical data, delays will occur. Plus, RPC rate limiting is also quite common; if you refresh too often, you'll see "Please try again later." It feels like the market moves up and down with macroeconomic expectations: interest rate cut expectations, minor fluctuations in the US dollar index, risk assets rising and falling together. When everyone gets excited and refreshes madly, the service can’t keep up.

For my part, I now prefer to take an extra step for safety: I’d rather spend two more minutes cross-checking the same transaction status using two different RPCs or browsers. If it’s slow, so be it. At least I won’t make a mistake just because of a "lag," and that extra time doesn’t matter.