Lately, when I check on-chain data, I always feel like something is off: for the same transaction, someone says “it’s already been on-chain,” but my explorer hasn’t shown it yet, and my wallet balance also needs a bit of time to update. After thinking about it, it’s normal. What you see as “on-chain” is actually a view put together by nodes/RPCs/indexers. If any part of the process is slower, has caching delays, or is acting up, it will arrive late. In plain terms, it’s not that the chain isn’t real—it’s just that the pipe you use to access the chain might not be stable.

Especially now, when everyone is watching testnet incentives and the points leaderboard, and asking every day whether the mainnet will issue tokens, you’re even more likely to get thrown off by these delays and lose your patience: you’ve clearly done the interactions, but if the points don’t move, people start doubting everything... My own approach is to switch between as many different RPCs as possible and compare whether the same transaction is consistent across different sources—don’t get so worked up that you immediately dump all the blame on the project team. Take a look, and then see...