People keep asking me why on-chain data sometimes “lags” a bit. To put it simply, what you’re seeing isn’t the blockchain itself being slow—it’s that whole pile of middlemen “carrying it” and catching their breath. First, the RPC enforces rate limits (especially on free tiers); when requests increase, they end up queuing. On top of that, indexers/Subgraphs have to ingest the logs, rebuild indexes, and sometimes—when there’s a rollback or an unstable node—they can’t line up with the latest blocks for a brief moment, so the front end looks like it’s glitching. Traders who use strategies fear this kind of “fake latency” the most: the market hasn’t changed, but your signals start to jitter… So I usually keep multiple RPCs as fail-safes, and for key metrics I’d rather do a verification with a more “dumb” direct on-chain read. By the way, lately, the social mining setup—“attention is mining”—also has data sources that lag in a stop-and-go way. The reward settlement depends entirely on the indexing layer. If I really treated it as mining to play with, I’d still feel a bit uneasy. In any case, don’t use leverage to bet on it.