diff --git a/src/pages/ethereum/clients/hooks/useDailyByClient.ts b/src/pages/ethereum/clients/hooks/useDailyByClient.ts
index ddacc6548..964522613 100644
--- a/src/pages/ethereum/clients/hooks/useDailyByClient.ts
+++ b/src/pages/ethereum/clients/hooks/useDailyByClient.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { useMemo } from 'react';
 import { useQueries, type UseQueryResult } from '@tanstack/react-query';
+import { $ZodError } from 'zod/v4/core';
 import { useNetwork } from '@/hooks/useNetwork';
 import { useTableBounds } from '@/hooks/useBounds';
 import { fetchAllPages } from '@/utils/api-pagination';
@@ -9,6 +10,13 @@ import { chunksFor, useKeepPrevious } from './useVersionCounts';
 
 type ListFn = Parameters<typeof fetchAllPages>[0];
 
+/** Retries a failed chunk a few times, unlike the app default of forever, so one broken table settles as an error
+ * instead of loading forever and holding back the pages that wait on it. A request the API client rejects before
+ * sending fails the same way every time, so it is not retried. */
+function retryChunk(failureCount: number, error: unknown): boolean {
+  return !(error instanceof $ZodError) && failureCount < 3;
+}
+
 export interface UseDailyByClientResult<T> {
   rows: T[];
   /** First day the table has data for (unix seconds), when known */
@@ -56,6 +64,7 @@ export function useDailyByClient<T extends { day_start_date?: string }>(
         fetchAllPages<T>(list, { query: { ...chunk.query, ...filters, page_size: PAGE_SIZE } }, dataKey, signal),
       enabled: !!currentNetwork && filters !== null && !bounds.isLoading,
       staleTime: chunk.open ? 10 * 60 * 1000 : Infinity,
+      retry: retryChunk,
     })),
     combine: combine<T>,
   });
diff --git a/src/pages/ethereum/clients/hooks/useVersionCounts.test.ts b/src/pages/ethereum/clients/hooks/useVersionCounts.test.ts
index 8539fb96e..c9f480d27 100644
--- a/src/pages/ethereum/clients/hooks/useVersionCounts.test.ts
+++ b/src/pages/ethereum/clients/hooks/useVersionCounts.test.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,15 @@ describe('chunksFor', () => {
     expect(chunks).toHaveLength(1);
     expect(chunks[0].query).toEqual({ day_start_date_in_values: '2026-11-03,2026-11-04' });
   });
+
+  it('reads nothing when the data starts after the last complete day', () => {
+    expect(chunksFor('daily', to + 7 * 3600, to)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(chunksFor('daily', to, to)).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('still lists the last complete day when the data starts during it', () => {
+    expect(chunksFor('daily', to - 3600, to)[0].query).toEqual({ day_start_date_in_values: '2026-11-04' });
+  });
 });
 
 describe('weekChunks', () => {
diff --git a/src/pages/ethereum/clients/hooks/useVersionCounts.ts b/src/pages/ethereum/clients/hooks/useVersionCounts.ts
index e5c814d41..89d9ff97f 100644
--- a/src/pages/ethereum/clients/hooks/useVersionCounts.ts
+++ b/src/pages/ethereum/clients/hooks/useVersionCounts.ts
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ export function chunksFor(grain: UseVersionCountsOptions['grain'], from: number
     return chunks;
   }
 
+  // No complete day yet, such as a table whose data starts today: an empty day list is not a valid query
+  if (from !== undefined && Math.floor(from / DAY) * DAY >= to) return [];
+
   if (from !== undefined && (to - from) / DAY <= MAX_LISTED_DAYS) {
     const days: string[] = [];
     for (let day = Math.floor(from / DAY) * DAY; day < to; day += DAY) days.push(isoDay(day));