refactor(home): remove the site-wide LiveTicker (info already lives below the fold)

The marquee ticker rendered above the navbar on every page, duplicating
the status, pricing, and benchmark data already shown on the homepage.
Removes LiveTicker, its ticker-data helper + test, and the ticker-only
CSS (keyframe + track rules). Keeps tf-live-dot (ActivityStream) and
tf-live-pulse (HeroV2), which are shared.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: RipperMercs

src/app/globals.css

@@ -223,10 +223,6 @@ a, button, input, select, textarea,
 
 /* ===== Phase 1 facelift: shared keyframes + utilities ===== */
 
-@keyframes tf-ticker-scroll {
-  0% { transform: translate3d(0, 0, 0); }
-  100% { transform: translate3d(-50%, 0, 0); }
-}
 @keyframes tf-pulse-dot {
   0%, 100% { opacity: 1; transform: scale(1); }
   50% { opacity: 0.55; transform: scale(0.85); }
@@ -243,12 +239,6 @@ a, button, input, select, textarea,
   100% { box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 0 transparent; }
 }
 
-.tf-ticker-track {
-  animation: tf-ticker-scroll calc(55s / var(--motion, 1)) linear infinite;
-  will-change: transform;
-}
-.tf-ticker:hover .tf-ticker-track { animation-play-state: paused; }
-
 .tf-live-dot {
   animation: tf-pulse-dot calc(2s / var(--motion, 1)) ease-in-out infinite;
 }
@@ -362,7 +352,6 @@ a.tf-activity-row:hover {
 .tf-explore-card .tf-explore-vis { z-index: 0; }
 
 @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
-  .tf-ticker-track,
   .tf-live-dot,
   .tf-live-pulse::after,
   .tf-hero-title-reveal,

src/app/layout.tsx

@@ -7,22 +7,9 @@ import ThemeProvider from '@/components/ThemeProvider';
 import ViewModeProvider from '@/components/ViewModeProvider';
 import AgentView from '@/components/AgentView';
 import CookieConsent from '@/components/CookieConsent';
-import LiveTicker from '@/components/home/LiveTicker';
 import TopAlertBar from '@/components/home/TopAlertBar';
 import JsonLd from '@/components/seo/JsonLd';
 import Script from 'next/script';
-import pricingData from '@/../data/pricing.json';
-import benchmarkData from '@/../data/benchmarks.json';
-import { buildEvergreenTickerItems, type PricingDataLite, type BenchmarkDataLite } from '@/lib/ticker-data';
-
-// Ticker price + benchmark rows derived once at build from the canonical data
-// files (data/pricing.json + data/benchmarks.json), so the homepage ticker can
-// never drift out of sync with them again. Passed to the client LiveTicker as a
-// prop, which keeps the JSON out of the client bundle.
-const TICKER_ITEMS = buildEvergreenTickerItems(
-  pricingData as unknown as PricingDataLite,
-  benchmarkData as unknown as BenchmarkDataLite,
-);
 
 export const metadata: Metadata = {
   title: {
@@ -132,9 +119,6 @@ export default function RootLayout({
         />
         <ThemeProvider>
           <ViewModeProvider>
-            <ChromeGate>
-              <LiveTicker evergreenItems={TICKER_ITEMS} />
-            </ChromeGate>
             <Navbar />
             <ChromeGate>
               <TopAlertBar />

src/components/home/LiveTicker.tsx

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 import { usePathname } from 'next/navigation';
 
 /**
- * Suppresses all wrapped chrome (LiveTicker, StatusAlertBar, CookieConsent,
- * etc.) on /widget/* routes so embeddable iframe surfaces render bare.
+ * Suppresses all wrapped chrome (TopAlertBar, CookieConsent, AgentView)
+ * on /widget/* routes so embeddable iframe surfaces render bare.
  * Pairs with the Navbar + ConditionalFooter route checks; this single
  * gate covers everything else from layout.tsx.
  */