I was just about to check some on-chain data, but the Subgraph is lagging again… so damn annoying. Sometimes the frontend clearly finishes loading, but when you click in, it’s still blank—only after refreshing several times does it show. Bottom line: the indexing layer is syncing slowly, or the RPC is rate-limited, so the data “stalls”—it’s not that the network is bad; it’s that someone else queries faster than you, or the node you’re using is just too busy.

When funding rates get extremely volatile lately, the community debates whether it’s a reversal or whether they’ll keep squeezing out bubble—so I went to look up a few on-chain aggregators too, and found that some data doesn’t match at all. It’s like an alarm clock, constantly reminding me to switch sources. Anyway, I’m used to keeping two or three different RPCs—if one goes down, I switch to another instead of waiting for it to spin by itself.

By the way, some projects’ so-called “one-stop data” setups are actually pretty dumb. It’s better to build a simple indexer yourself—even if it’s more work—but at least you won’t get woken up in the middle of the night by it getting stuck.