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Ethereum Classic back to three providers - #2933

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Cherry-pick of #2932.

The page carries a backlink and showed one row. The harness had three providers configured all along; two had stopped answering.

rpc.etcdesktop.com was a certificate that does not cover that hostname, not an outage: etc.etcdesktop.com answers normally. etcmc.rpc.nz has no DNS record anywhere and is replaced by ETC Network. All three return the same head.

Three providers clears the under-3 gate, so the page becomes indexable again.

Everything was probed with eth_getBlockByNumber, the call the bench makes, not a liveness ping: 61.rpc.thirdweb.com passes a chainId check and then fails the real call.

pnpm validate clean.

…ied (#2932)

The page carries a backlink and showed a single row, which is why it went
noindex as thin content. The harness was configured with three providers all
along and its comment still said "3 keyless providers"; two of them had
stopped answering and only drpc ever reached the page.

Neither was a dead project. rpc.etcdesktop.com serves a certificate that does
not cover that hostname, while etc.etcdesktop.com answers normally, so that
was a hostname error on our side. etcmc.rpc.nz has no DNS record anywhere and
is replaced by ETC Network.

Both replacements were probed with the call the bench actually makes,
eth_getBlockByNumber, not a liveness ping, and all three returned the same
head (0x1852588) before inclusion. That distinction mattered: 61.rpc.thirdweb.com
answers eth_chainId with 0x3d and then fails eth_getBlockByNumber with an
internal error, so a chainId check alone would have admitted a provider that
cannot serve the benchmark.

Three providers clears the under-3 gate, so the page becomes indexable again.

etcdesktop ships without a logo and renders initials. Their site's only logo
asset is assets/img/logo/home2.png, a website template's placeholder, and
publishing that as their brand would be worse than initials. ETC Network
publishes a real mark and it is committed.

go build and go vet clean, pnpm validate clean, tsc clean, 515 tests pass.
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