These days, I keep experiencing “lag” when checking on-chain data. Actually, many times it’s not your internet connection being slow, but the middle layer struggling: the indexer is catching up on blocks, the Subgraph is resynchronizing, and RPCs are rate-limiting you. Basically, at the moment you hit refresh, it might just be catching up on historical data or the node is being overwhelmed by a bunch of users at the same time, so it’s like a mirror ball turning to the backlit side, reflecting slowly.

Recently, everyone has been talking about rate cut expectations, the US dollar index, and risk assets sometimes rising together and sometimes falling together. When emotions run high, the request volume can spike dramatically, making on-chain “market watching” even more prone to delays. My little habit is: when I see the data jump, don’t rush to draw conclusions. Switch to a different RPC, wait two minutes, and don’t treat the delay of that one second as a matter of pride or a reason to fight over your position.