No more pretending— I only just realized recently that the “on-chain” I’m seeing sometimes also arrives late. Last night, while scrolling on X in a rainy night to check a blockchain game minting situation, my side’s block explorer showed no movement yet, but in the group someone was already yelling “It’s over”… Later, I remembered: the node/RPC you’re using might be queuing, caching, and the indexing service also needs to scan through before results show up—sometimes it may even miss it by a few minutes and then catch up. To put it plainly, what you think you’re watching in real time is actually a “broadcast” someone else has already packaged and relayed.

Airdrop season makes this even more obvious. The task platform’s anti-sybil/anti-witch campaign makes it feel like clocking in for work. I stared at the points panel for a bit—one moment it jumped, the next it didn’t—almost convinced myself I’d missed some step again… Turns out it was just that the data hadn’t synchronized yet. Now I just go with the flow: for key actions, double-check using two different RPCs. Don’t let yourself be fooled by “no display = no occurrence.” I’m writing this down as a lesson and calling it here for now.