Recently, I saw someone say "It's all written on the chain, so stop arguing," and I couldn't help but laugh a little and feel a bit helpless... What you see on your phone/webpage as "on-chain" is actually a picture assembled from nodes + RPC + indexers, not the blockchain itself. If an RPC stalls for a moment, or the indexer falls behind, or there's a reorganization, the transaction status you see can be delayed by a few minutes or even jump back and forth repeatedly.

In cases like cross-chain bridge thefts, many people's first reaction is to look at browser screenshots to assign blame, but honestly, screenshots might just be "a perspective from a certain service." Also, after oracle price anomalies, people love to shout "wait for confirmation," and I now understand why: it's not superstition about slowness, but to first verify whether the data source is synchronized or has rolled back. Anyway, I only trust cross-verification from multiple sources, and if something seems unreasonable, I directly ask the project team: which RPC provider are you using, how much is the indexer delayed, and how did you reconcile during the incident.