Today I was looking at a few fragmented small collectibles on the chain, and the page kept "freezing for a moment," so I thought my internet was acting up again... Later I realized it's probably not the chain itself being slow, but the data layer: the indexer/subgraph hasn't synchronized to the latest blocks, or RPC is being rate-limited, and when you refresh, it queues or slows down, making the frontend feel like it's frozen for half a second. Basically, on-chain data isn't "available on demand," there's a bunch of middlemen in between. My roommate also complained, "Your broken images haven't
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