Recently, many people have been asking why on-chain data sometimes "lags," essentially it's not that the chain suddenly stops, but rather the layer you're viewing is struggling: RPC is rate-limited, indexer queues are backed up, Subgraph is still catching up with blocks/filling in, and the frontend can only show you the last cached data, which looks like latency. Especially when you're focusing on failed transactions or nonce sequences, missing just one or two blocks can make the data completely mismatched.

Some people have also been more anxious lately due to rumors of increased taxes or stricter/looser compliance in certain regions, and when a refresh doesn't show the expected data, they suspect deposit/withdrawal issues... but often it's just that the data hasn't caught up with the chain.

I see complexity as an enemy: don't rely blindly on "real-time" data, cross-check two or three data sources to avoid arguing with illusions.