Recently, many people have been treating "on-chain data" as gospel, but what you're seeing might actually be overdue. Nodes need to synchronize first, RPCs might be using load balancing, today’s fast node might be slow tomorrow, and the indexers have to process logs again, stacking cache layers on top. Basically, for the same transaction, the timestamp, status, and even order you see could be off by several seconds to tens of seconds. The parameters inside the contract are quite honest; the real trick is in the network.



So, the whole "attention mining" with social mining and fan tokens—it's more like mining latency and information gaps. You think you're the first to push onto the chain, but in reality, you're just the first to be pushed into the cache. Anyway, I now tend to check RPC responses from two different providers whenever I look at the chain, and compare that with my lightweight node results, just to feel more at ease. That’s all for now.
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