From a4544975568b1807755fd8f65c90b18714f29e34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florent Tapponnier Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 22:36:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] feat(about): add Independence and disclosure section Addresses the Mobula conflict-of-interest gap flagged in external SEO audits and required for the 'neutral methodology arbiter' positioning. New section iii on the About page declares: - Mobula funds the project + why - Mobula competes in 5 benchmarks and leads 2 (made explicit above the fold) - Three safeguards: open Prometheus data, open harness source, public methodology review (with the Coinpaprika story as the live example) - No paid tier, no sponsored slots, no token policy - Hosting funding source E-E-A-T signal: makes the conflict legible, links the recent methodology review PRs (#349, #352, #353), and gives Search Console / AI citation engines a concrete reason to treat the bench as authoritative. --- src/app/about/page.tsx | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/app/about/page.tsx b/src/app/about/page.tsx index 07bda322..202c7bd5 100644 --- a/src/app/about/page.tsx +++ b/src/app/about/page.tsx @@ -52,7 +52,29 @@ export default function AboutPage() { 13 live benchmarks. ~150 (provider × chain) probe pairs. Every metric is queryable on the public Prometheus and reproducible from the harness source.

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+ OpenChainBench is funded by Mobula because we needed honest infrastructure benchmark data internally and saw no neutral source existed. The site is open-sourced because the industry needs it. +

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+ Mobula competes in five live benchmarks: aggregator head lag, bridge fee, bridge quote latency, network coverage and metadata coverage. Mobula currently leads aggregator head lag and bridge quote latency. This is a real conflict of interest and we want it visible above the fold, not buried. +

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+ Three safeguards stand against the conflict: +

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  • ·Open Prometheus data. Every number on the site is a literal quantile_over_time query. Anyone can hit our /api/citable or /api/stat/<slug> endpoint and re-derive the leaderboard with their own aggregation. If Mobula were inflating its rank, the raw data would show it.
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  • ·Open harness source. Every harness is on GitHub under harnesses/. Clone, run docker compose up, your /metrics endpoint emits the same numbers ours does within 30 seconds.
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  • ·Public methodology review. We invite external review and ship the fixes publicly. In June 2026 the Coinpaprika data team flagged four issues on the stablecoin peg and oracle deviation benches. We shipped three of them in pull requests #349, #352 and #353 within twenty-four hours and pushed back on the fourth with citations to CME, Chainlink and CoinGecko convention.
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+ We do not run a paid tier. We do not sell ranking slots. We do not take provider sponsorship in exchange for inclusion. There is no token. If you spot any deviation from this policy, file a private security advisory and we will treat it as the integrity incident it would be. +

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+ Hosting and infrastructure costs are paid by Mobula. The site runs on Vercel; harnesses run on Railway. We are open to grant funding that preserves editorial independence, but we will not accept funding from any party we benchmark. +

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Every benchmark is a YAML spec plus a harness. The spec describes what to measure, which providers, which Prometheus queries hold the numbers; the harness runs continuously on Railway and exposes those metrics. A single shared Prometheus scrapes every harness; the site queries Prometheus directly and re-renders every minute. Every provider is rendered with equal visual weight. readers do their own ranking.

@@ -62,7 +84,7 @@ export default function AboutPage() { walks through the steps. New providers, new metrics, new chains. all welcome via pull request.

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  • ·Read the{" "}live benchmarks{" "}.
  • ·Reproduce any number. the{" "}methodology{" "}page tells you how.
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  • ·Discuss ideas in{" "}GitHub Discussions{" "}or follow{" "}@OpenChainBench.
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