Recently, I realized something quite upsetting: I thought I was timely by focusing on "on-chain fund flows," but in reality, I might also be late. Slow node synchronization, RPCs congested at public endpoints, indexers still queuing for rebuilds... The transaction or interaction you see may not be fake, but it could be several minutes or even longer behind, and the emotional turning point has already passed. To put it simply, on-chain data also has an "information gap," just dressed in a more hardcore exterior.

These days, social mining and fan tokens are heating up again, and everyone is shouting "attention is mining." I, on the other hand, am more cautious: if the hotness you see is delayed itself, are you mining attention or just replaying? I now treat it as self-rescue: compare multiple RPCs/browsers for the same event, don’t get overly excited just because one panel shows red or green... As for whether this "lateness" can turn into an advantage, I haven't figured that out yet.