diff --git a/src/components/MarketOracle/ChainlinkFeedTooltip.tsx b/src/components/MarketOracle/ChainlinkFeedTooltip.tsx
index 2f72321f..d545f9db 100644
--- a/src/components/MarketOracle/ChainlinkFeedTooltip.tsx
+++ b/src/components/MarketOracle/ChainlinkFeedTooltip.tsx
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 import Image from 'next/image';
 import Link from 'next/link';
+import { IoHelpCircleOutline } from 'react-icons/io5';
 import { Address } from 'viem';
 import { Badge } from '@/components/common/Badge';
 import { ChainlinkOracleEntry, getChainlinkFeedUrl } from '@/constants/oracle/chainlink-data';
+import { useGlobalModal } from '@/contexts/GlobalModalContext';
 import etherscanLogo from '@/imgs/etherscan.png';
 import { getExplorerURL } from '@/utils/external';
 import { PriceFeedVendors, OracleVendorIcons } from '@/utils/oracle';
 import { OracleFeed } from '@/utils/types';
+import { ChainlinkRiskTiersModal } from './ChainlinkRiskTiersModal';
 
 type ChainlinkFeedTooltipProps = {
   feed: OracleFeed;
@@ -15,6 +18,7 @@ type ChainlinkFeedTooltipProps = {
 };
 
 export function ChainlinkFeedTooltip({ feed, chainlinkData, chainId }: ChainlinkFeedTooltipProps) {
+  const { toggleModal, closeModal } = useGlobalModal();
   const baseAsset = feed.pair?.[0] ?? chainlinkData?.baseAsset ?? 'Unknown';
   const quoteAsset = feed.pair?.[1] ?? chainlinkData?.quoteAsset ?? 'Unknown';
 
@@ -75,7 +79,23 @@ export function ChainlinkFeedTooltip({ feed, chainlinkData, chainId }: Chainlink
             </div>
             <div className="flex items-center justify-between font-zen text-sm">
               <span className="text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-400">Risk Tier:</span>
-              {getRiskTierBadge(chainlinkData.feedCategory)}
+              <div className="flex items-center gap-1">
+                {getRiskTierBadge(chainlinkData.feedCategory)}
+                <button
+                  onClick={(e) => {
+                    e.preventDefault();
+                    e.stopPropagation();
+                    toggleModal(
+                      <ChainlinkRiskTiersModal isOpen onClose={() => closeModal()} />,
+                    );
+                  }}
+                  className="cursor-pointer text-gray-500 transition-colors hover:text-gray-700 dark:hover:text-gray-300"
+                  type="button"
+                  aria-label="Learn about risk tiers"
+                >
+                  <IoHelpCircleOutline size={14} />
+                </button>
+              </div>
             </div>
             <div className="flex justify-between font-zen text-sm">
               <span className="text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-400">Deviation Threshold:</span>
diff --git a/src/components/MarketOracle/ChainlinkRiskTiersModal.tsx b/src/components/MarketOracle/ChainlinkRiskTiersModal.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4c941621
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/MarketOracle/ChainlinkRiskTiersModal.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+import Image from 'next/image';
+import { Badge } from '@/components/common/Badge';
+import { Modal, ModalHeader, ModalBody } from '@/components/common/Modal';
+import { PriceFeedVendors, OracleVendorIcons } from '@/utils/oracle';
+
+type ChainlinkRiskTiersModalProps = {
+  isOpen: boolean;
+  onClose: () => void;
+};
+
+export function ChainlinkRiskTiersModal({ isOpen, onClose }: ChainlinkRiskTiersModalProps) {
+  const chainlinkIcon = OracleVendorIcons[PriceFeedVendors.Chainlink];
+
+  return (
+    <Modal
+      isOpen={isOpen}
+      onOpenChange={(open) => !open && onClose()}
+      zIndex="base"
+      size="xl"
+    >
+      <ModalHeader
+        title="Chainlink Risk Tier Categories"
+        description="Risk categories assigned by Chainlink for data feeds"
+        mainIcon={chainlinkIcon ? <Image src={chainlinkIcon} alt="Chainlink" width={20} height={20} /> : undefined}
+        onClose={onClose}
+      />
+
+      <ModalBody>
+        <div className="space-y-4">
+          {/* Low Risk */}
+          <div className="rounded-sm bg-hovered p-4">
+            <div className="mb-2 flex items-center gap-2">
+              <Badge variant="success" size="sm">LOW RISK</Badge>
+            </div>
+            <p className="text-sm text-secondary">
+              Data feeds following standardized workflows to report market prices. Highly resilient to disruption with many data sources. High trading volumes across large numbers of markets enable consistent price discovery.
+            </p>
+          </div>
+
+          {/* Medium Risk */}
+          <div className="rounded-sm bg-hovered p-4">
+            <div className="mb-2 flex items-center gap-2">
+              <Badge variant="warning" size="sm">MEDIUM RISK</Badge>
+            </div>
+            <p className="text-sm text-secondary">
+              Market price feeds for asset pairs that may have features making them more challenging to reliably price or subject to volatility. Risk factors include lower or inconsistent volume, spread between trading venues, market concentration on single exchanges, cross-rate pricing, or significant market events.
+            </p>
+          </div>
+
+          {/* High Risk */}
+          <div className="rounded-sm bg-hovered p-4">
+            <div className="mb-2 flex items-center gap-2">
+              <Badge variant="danger" size="sm">HIGH RISK</Badge>
+            </div>
+            <p className="text-sm text-secondary">
+              Asset pairs exhibiting heightened risk factors that make market prices subject to uncertainty or volatility. Risk factors include significant market events (hacks, bridge failures, major exchange delistings), asset or project deprecation, or extremely low trading volumes.
+            </p>
+          </div>
+
+          {/* Custom */}
+          <div className="rounded-sm bg-hovered p-4">
+            <div className="mb-2 flex items-center gap-2">
+              <Badge variant="primary" size="sm">CUSTOM</Badge>
+            </div>
+            <p className="text-sm text-secondary">
+              Feeds built to serve specific use cases and may not be suitable for general use. Categories include onchain single source feeds, proof of reserve feeds, exchange rate feeds, technical metric feeds, total value locked feeds, custom index feeds, and LP token feeds. Users must evaluate feed properties against their intended use case.
+            </p>
+          </div>
+
+          <p className="text-xs text-secondary italic">
+            Risk tier categories are assigned by Chainlink based on feed characteristics and market conditions.
+          </p>
+        </div>
+      </ModalBody>
+    </Modal>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/src/components/MarketOracle/CompoundFeedTooltip.tsx b/src/components/MarketOracle/CompoundFeedTooltip.tsx
index 2a547bbf..11e4b86d 100644
--- a/src/components/MarketOracle/CompoundFeedTooltip.tsx
+++ b/src/components/MarketOracle/CompoundFeedTooltip.tsx
@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
 import { useMemo } from 'react';
 import Image from 'next/image';
 import Link from 'next/link';
+import { IoHelpCircleOutline } from 'react-icons/io5';
 import { Address } from 'viem';
 import { Badge } from '@/components/common/Badge';
 import { getChainlinkFeedUrl, getChainlinkOracle } from '@/constants/oracle/chainlink-data';
 import { CompoundFeedEntry } from '@/constants/oracle/compound';
+import { useGlobalModal } from '@/contexts/GlobalModalContext';
 import etherscanLogo from '@/imgs/etherscan.png';
 import { getExplorerURL } from '@/utils/external';
 import { PriceFeedVendors, OracleVendorIcons } from '@/utils/oracle';
 import { OracleFeed } from '@/utils/types';
+import { ChainlinkRiskTiersModal } from './ChainlinkRiskTiersModal';
 
 type CompoundFeedTooltipProps = {
   feed: OracleFeed;
@@ -17,6 +20,7 @@ type CompoundFeedTooltipProps = {
 };
 
 export function CompoundFeedTooltip({ feed, compoundData, chainId }: CompoundFeedTooltipProps) {
+  const { toggleModal, closeModal } = useGlobalModal();
   const baseAsset = compoundData.base;
   const quoteAsset = compoundData.quote;
 
@@ -100,7 +104,23 @@ export function CompoundFeedTooltip({ feed, compoundData, chainId }: CompoundFee
             </div>
             <div className="flex items-center justify-between font-zen text-sm">
               <span className="text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-400">Risk Tier:</span>
-              {getRiskTierBadge(underlyingChainlinkData.feedCategory)}
+              <div className="flex items-center gap-1">
+                {getRiskTierBadge(underlyingChainlinkData.feedCategory)}
+                <button
+                  onClick={(e) => {
+                    e.preventDefault();
+                    e.stopPropagation();
+                    toggleModal(
+                      <ChainlinkRiskTiersModal isOpen onClose={() => closeModal()} />,
+                    );
+                  }}
+                  className="cursor-pointer text-gray-500 transition-colors hover:text-gray-700 dark:hover:text-gray-300"
+                  type="button"
+                  aria-label="Learn about risk tiers"
+                >
+                  <IoHelpCircleOutline size={14} />
+                </button>
+              </div>
             </div>
             <div className="flex justify-between font-zen text-sm">
               <span className="text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-400">Deviation Threshold:</span>
diff --git a/src/utils/oracle.ts b/src/utils/oracle.ts
index 83abe476..cc0cf923 100644
--- a/src/utils/oracle.ts
+++ b/src/utils/oracle.ts
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ export function checkFeedsPath(
     const actualPath = `${remainingNumeratorAssets.join('*')}/${remainingDenominatorAssets.join(
       '*',
     )}`;
-    missingPath = `Feed path mismatch: got ${actualPath}, expected ${expectedPath}`;
+    missingPath = `Oracle uses ${actualPath.toUpperCase()} instead of ${expectedPath.toUpperCase()}. Depegs or divergence won't be reflected`;
   }
 
   return {