Recently, on the Chain Theater, I keep encountering a common issue: the page suddenly "freezes for a moment," then the data suddenly pops up... At first, I thought my internet was slow, but then I realized that often it's not the chain itself that's the problem, but the group of middlemen catching their breath. For example, subgraph/indexers need to first piece together the on-chain fragments into a story you can understand. When new L1/L2 incentives are launched or TVL skyrockets, requests surge, and if the indexers can't keep up, there will be delays; plus, with RPC rate limiting, it's like
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