I just saw in the group chat that a brother asked, “It’s already confirmed on-chain, so why does the wallet still show zero?” This question is something I’m way too familiar with. Simply put, the “on-chain” information you’re seeing may be delayed by a few seconds, or even a few minutes. It depends on what RPC you’re connected to, whether the node is fully synced, and whether the indexer is able to keep up with and process blocks. Earlier, when a certain project rug-pulled, I immediately switched to the node I set up to check the transactions. The public RPC still showed as “running normally”—it only took a few seconds for you to lose money on a mistake.

Now that the public chain is getting upgraded, everyone is guessing whether projects might take advantage of the downtime to do migrations. Honestly, before and after a hard fork is when RPC nodes are most likely to cause weird issues—lag, returning to an old state, or even disconnecting entirely. If you usually rely on public nodes to watch the market, the “on-chain” info you see at that time can feel like time-lapse footage—by the time you realize it’s broken, other people have already run.

Anyway, I’ve switched to my own node recently. It’s slower, but at least I don’t have to guess whether the data is real or not. Sometimes I think about it and it’s pretty exhausting—you have to play detective just to read on-chain information. Forget it, consider it practice. If one day the public chain has another “period pain,” then at least we can survive a few more rounds.