Comparison Tables Rot: Keeping "X vs Y" Pages Honest With a Typed Fact Sheet
"X vs Y" comparison pages are mostly hand-written tables, and hand-written tables rot. Exchanges re-enter countries, change fees, get hacked and leave markets, and nobody goes back to page 37 to fix the sentence that is no longer true. In October I checked the crypto comparison pages on my own site against each exchange's own pages. These sentences were wrong: "Bybit has never experienced a major…
Comparison tables on crypto exchange websites are mostly hand-written and prone to errors over time. When exchanges change their fees, get hacked, or leave markets, the information on these pages quickly becomes outdated. In October, the writer checked their own site's comparison pages against each exchange's official pages and found several inaccuracies.
For instance, Bybit claimed it had never experienced a major hack, yet a significant amount of ETH was stolen from their cold wallet in February 2025. The UK users could access Bybit after the exchange re-launched in December 2025 with spot trading and P2P services. Kraken is licensed in all 50 U.S. states but does not serve New York or Maine.
MEXC charges lower fees than most exchanges, with spot fees being 0% for makers and 0.05% for takers. The operator of MEXC is registered in Seychelles, but its terms incorrectly name it as MEXC (Comoros) Ltd.
To combat these issues, the writer created a typed fact sheet containing exchange information. The fact sheet includes fields such as the exchange's name, founding year, licensing status in various regions, proof of reserves, incident history, peer-to-peer services, card payments, served countries, and sources for each fact. Only verified information from primary sources like the exchange's terms, fee page, help center, or regulator is included in the fact sheet.
A function determines a field's value based on the reader's location, such as which countries MEXC is barred from or if a reader in the EEA would need to sign up with the EU platform. The fact sheet ensures that the comparison pages on the writer's site always display honest and up-to-date information.
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