diff --git a/src/app/benchmarks/[slug]/page.tsx b/src/app/benchmarks/[slug]/page.tsx
index de1a044d..3f8c1bd7 100644
--- a/src/app/benchmarks/[slug]/page.tsx
+++ b/src/app/benchmarks/[slug]/page.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import { Suspense } from "react";
 import type { Metadata } from "next";
-import { unstable_noStore as noStore } from "next/cache";
 import { notFound } from "next/navigation";
 import Link from "next/link";
 import { ArrowLeft, ArrowUpRight, ChevronDown } from "lucide-react";
@@ -276,14 +275,6 @@ export default async function BenchmarkPage({
 
   const isDraft = benchmark.status === "draft";
   const isAwaiting = isDraft && benchmark.editorialStatus === "live";
-  // An editorially-live bench rendering as draft means the store read
-  // came back empty this cycle (srh timeout, snapshot swap), not that
-  // the bench has no data: keep that render OUT of the ISR cache so the
-  // next visitor triggers a fresh read instead of everyone seeing
-  // "no live data yet" for a revalidate window (seen on perp-fees
-  // 2026-07-10). Genuinely-new benches render dynamically until their
-  // first samples land, which is the correct behavior anyway.
-  if (isAwaiting) noStore();
   // Insufficient: editorially live, runtime might say "live" too, but the
   // shared predicate decided no provider has a usable p50. Drives the
   // pill above the H1 and the headline degradation downstream.
diff --git a/src/lib/spec.ts b/src/lib/spec.ts
index 4aeba369..9deaf4b4 100644
--- a/src/lib/spec.ts
+++ b/src/lib/spec.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  */
 
 import { cache } from "react";
-import { unstable_cache, unstable_noStore } from "next/cache";
+import { unstable_cache } from "next/cache";
 import type { Benchmark } from "@/types/benchmark";
 import type { Spec } from "@/lib/spec-schema";
 // Imported from the isolated alias module (NOT @/lib/chains) to avoid
@@ -577,16 +577,6 @@ export const loadAllBenchmarksSafe = cache(
       return await loadAllBenchmarksCached();
     } catch (err) {
       if (err instanceof AllBenchmarksDraftError) {
-        // Opt this render out of every cache layer (ISR + CDN edge). When
-        // the aggregate quorum is lost (SRH stuck, Redis blackout, worker
-        // starved) the placeholder response is a degraded surrogate, NOT
-        // ground truth. Without noStore the placeholder HTML would sit at
-        // Vercel Edge for `revalidate` seconds and — under stale-while-
-        // revalidate — for hours after backend recovery, since SWR only
-        // refreshes on cache miss. Marking the response no-store forces
-        // every subsequent hit to re-render, which immediately picks up
-        // real data as soon as SRH is back — no cache-key bump, no deploy.
-        unstable_noStore();
         const specs = await loadSpecs();
         return specs
           .map((s) => draftPlaceholderForSpec(s))