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Lately, looking at on-chain data feels a bit like listening to old song tapes: you think it's live, but actually you're a few beats late.
Many people jump to conclusions just by looking at browser screenshots, but what you see as "on-chain" is often the result after nodes/RPC/indexers have processed it.
Someone gets stuck or caches for a moment, and the delay shows up.
Especially before and after major public chain upgrades/maintenance, the group is guessing whether projects will migrate.
I instead suspect that everyone might be looking at different data sources…
For the same transaction, some say it didn't go on-chain, while others are already celebrating—it's quite awkward.
Anyway, what I do now is: at critical moments, don't rely on the default RPC, keep two or three backups (even paid ones), and double-check the original transaction hash.
It's a bit troublesome but gives peace of mind.