Just tried it once: I set up my own node and ran RPC, then compared the data latency with a public RPC. The result was pretty interesting—on the public node side, it showed a certain transaction was already confirmed, but my own self-hosted indexer still kept waiting more than ten seconds before it picked it up. Honestly, I used to think on-chain data is real-time, but now I understand that “real-time” also depends on whose nodes and which RPC you’re using. Anyway, I’ll be careful when checking key states going forward, so I don’t get bitten by latency.

The recent collapse in that chain game wave is also pretty timely. The data looks great, but once you actually go in, it’s all studios and an inflation spiral. It’s the same as node latency—things that look good on the surface may actually be all “late” information that hasn’t synced yet.