This morning on the subway, I checked on-chain data again and got "backstabbed" once more: the same transaction I hadn't seen in A's browser yet, but someone in the group already screenshot and confirmed it... Basically, what you see as "on-chain" is often just the perspective of RPCs/indexers, not an omniscient view. Slow node synchronization, RPC cache hits, indexer queue congestion—these can distort the timeline, especially if you're using it for arbitrage or transferring assets, a delay of just a few seconds can turn you from profit to loss. Recently, there's been a heated debate over the "shared security + compounded yields" staking model. Besides the risk structure, data latency is also quite critical: you might think yields are credited in real-time, but in reality, it's just a front-end optimistic display... Now I prefer to check multiple RPCs and raw events; I’d rather confirm a bit slower. That mystical "it's all written on-chain" approach from the so-called KOLs really leaves me speechless.