Recently, checking on-chain data always feels like it’s “hanging,” at first I thought it was my VPN acting up… but after inspecting, I found it’s RPC rate limiting + the indexer not keeping up. To put it simply, the balances/transactions you see when you open it aren’t necessarily read in real-time from the chain; many are first fetched from subgraph/indexing service caches, so if the update is slow, it will show blank and spin; then adding a public RPC 429 error causes a deadlock for a few seconds. Now, a bunch of AI agents and automated trading scripts are frantically hitting APIs, some claiming “full automation,” others focusing on security and stability, and the gap is quite obvious. Anyway, I keep it simple on my end: before key operations, wait a bit for confirmation, and for important queries, switch to a different RPC as a backup to avoid getting stuck and losing my composure.