These days, I’ve been “educated” again by on-chain data: you think that staring at the browser is the first-hand scene, but in fact, there are nodes, RPCs, and indexers in between... Sometimes they’re busy, sometimes they’re lagging, sometimes they’re still rebuilding, and what you see as “something happening on the chain” might already be a version from a few minutes ago or even longer ago.

I thought a certain fund flow was very clear, but after switching to a different RPC and checking the original transaction, I found it was just indexing delay + cache not refreshed, wasting half a day on unnecessary worry. Now I’m used to checking multiple entry points; if I can see the original transaction, I don’t just rely on the dashboard.

By the way, I was reminded of the recent collapse points in chain games with inflation + studio + coin price spiral. Many people are still arguing in retrospectives that “the on-chain data clearly shows no exit,” but if the layer you’re looking at is inherently delayed... emotions are even easier to be misled. Anyway, I’ll slow down first; the data needs to cool down for myself too.