Recently I’ve been reconciling accounts again, and I realize that the line “on-chain is real-time” is really rather mysterious… the transfers and Swaps you see in a browser are sometimes not slow on-chain; it’s just that the node/RPC you’re using is dozing off, or the indexer hasn’t finished scanning the data yet. In plain terms, for the same transaction, my wallet may already show it as successful, while the page still shows pending; after a few minutes, it suddenly fills in, making it feel like I’m seeing things. I used to even doubt that I might have operated it wrong, but my obsessive-compulsive approach now is: for any key action, at least check two RPCs plus the raw on-chain transaction hash—if I can verify it myself, I don’t fully trust the front end. The twist is that lately AI Agents/automatic interactions have been quite popular, and the narrative gets inflated, but security is being tightened even more: if you let a robot watch the “late-arriving on-chain,” it might “strike” at the wrong time when something goes wrong, wasting extra gas fees or misjudging the status… Anyway, I can now automatically record whenever I can, but for automatic execution, I’d rather be slower and not gamble on those unstable entry points.