Today I was once again educated by "on-chain data"… You think you're seeing the truth, but you're actually just looking at the mood of a certain RPC/indexer. A transaction I already see as successful on my wallet, but the browser is still spinning, switching nodes turns it into pending, and the timeline gets completely out of sync, making me feel like I'm following a serialized story. Even more absurd is that whenever there's a cross-chain bridge hack or an oracle suddenly reports an outrageous price, everyone starts collectively "waiting for confirmation," basically not trusting the chain but afraid that what they see is just a delayed illusion. Now I look at the chain first by source: which RPC, which indexer, whether there's caching, and I keep the transaction hash handy so I won't be accused of making things up. What I’ve learned isn’t a skill, but… what you see as "on-chain" might just be a version someone else has translated for you.