Here's the reality nobody talks about.

When your indexing layer crashes twice daily, that's not innovation velocity. That's infrastructure gambling.

I threw the same cross-chain indexing job at four different providers. Three failed spectacularly—each with their own creative excuse:

→ Hit rate caps mid-query
→ Requests timing out randomly
→ Historical records corrupted beyond repair

The fourth? Surprisingly stable. But here's the kicker: reliability shouldn't be a surprise feature in 2025.

If you're building on shaky data pipes, you're not shipping fast. You're just accumulating technical debt while praying your monitoring alerts stay quiet.

Multi-chain architecture demands boring infrastructure. The kind that works when you're asleep. Not the kind that requires a dedicated war room every deployment.