Recently, I was educated again: I was looking at on-chain data and thought it was "real-time," but after changing RPCs or switching to a different indexer, the same transaction's displayed time could be off by several minutes... To put it simply, what you see "on-chain" is often someone else's translation of the on-chain data, and that translation can be slow or incomplete. Node synchronization, RPC queuing, index re-scanning, cache not updated—if any link in that chain malfunctions, you might think the market is playing you.

These days, everyone is comparing RWA, the yield on US bonds, and on-chain yield products all together. I really envy those who can look at something and immediately draw conclusions—I can't do that... My current approach is: for key data, compare sources from two different providers. If there's an anomaly, I write a small script to pull the raw logs for confirmation. Otherwise, it's easy to get frustrated by the "delayed on-chain" data. Anyway, for now, that's how I do it.