Kraken vs Bitfinex
Kraken wins on measured health — 8.53/10 against 8.24/10. Note the coverage gap: we measured 72% of the criteria for Kraken and 82% for Bitfinex. Some of that gap is the finding — a service that publishes less can be measured less.
Last collection 2026-08-25: probed 252 services, measured 233, over a 90-day window.
| Measured | Kraken | Bitfinex |
|---|---|---|
| Status now | Degraded | Not published |
| Score On what we could measure: 72% of the criteria weight for Kraken, 82% for Bitfinex. | 8.53/10 | 8.24/10 |
| Value locked | — | $19.22B |
| Age | 15.7 yr | 14.7 yr |
| Latency (our probe) | 102 ms | 82 ms |
| Median fix | 343 min | — |
| Status feed | statuspage | none |
Kraken
8.53 / 1072% measuredNo public on-chain value to measure — not a smart-contract service, or not tracked by DefiLlama.
Live 15.7 yr (since founding (2011), public record). Most failures happen young, so time survived is real signal.
Publishes a machine-readable incident archive (statuspage) — its whole record can be checked by anyone, including against us.
Median 343 min from published report to resolution across 49 logged incidents. Scored on repair speed, not on how many it logged.
Median 102 ms to first byte from a public API endpoint, our own probe, slowest sample discarded, single location. Compared only within this category.
Incident repair time: Median 343 min from published report to resolution across 49 logged incidents. Scored on repair speed, not on how many it logged.
Bitfinex
8.24 / 1082% measured$19.22B in value locked (DefiLlama). Capital is the market voting with its money — scored on a log scale, so the jump from $10M to $100M counts for more than $10B to $20B.
Live 14.7 yr (since founding (2012), public record). Most failures happen young, so time survived is real signal.
No public status page found. Nothing about its reliability can be verified from outside — including by us.
No incident feed we can read, so no repair time to compute.
Median 82 ms to first byte from a public API endpoint, our own probe, slowest sample discarded, single location. Compared only within this category.
Status transparency: No public status page found. Nothing about its reliability can be verified from outside — including by us.
Anyone who needs to know when it breaks: no status feed, so you find out it is down by discovering it yourself.
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