ralyodio · Nov 9, 2026 · Nov 9, 2026 · Nov 9, 2026
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ members = [
 ]
 
 [workspace.package]
-version = "0.3.5"
+version = "0.3.6"
 edition = "2024"
 license = "MIT"
 repository = "https://github.com/profullstack/c0mpute"

diff --git a/apps/tui/package.json b/apps/tui/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@c0mpute/tui",
-  "version": "0.3.5",
+  "version": "0.3.6",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {

diff --git a/apps/web/package.json b/apps/web/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "c0mpute",
-  "version": "0.3.5",
+  "version": "0.3.6",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {

diff --git a/apps/web/src/app/releases/latest.json/route.ts b/apps/web/src/app/releases/latest.json/route.ts
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ export const dynamic = "force-dynamic";
  * this in sync with the workspace version in `Cargo.toml` on each release so a
  * freshly built CLI reports "already latest" rather than a phantom upgrade.
  */
-const FALLBACK_VERSION = "0.3.5";
+const FALLBACK_VERSION = "0.3.6";
 const FALLBACK_MIN_REQUIRED = "0.0.1";
 
 type Channel = "stable" | "beta" | "nightly";

diff --git a/node/crates/c0mpute-core/src/buyer.rs b/node/crates/c0mpute-core/src/buyer.rs
@@ -461,7 +461,8 @@ pub async fn run_auction(net: Arc<Libp2pNetwork>, auction: JobAuction) -> Result
     }
 
     // ── wait for receipt ────────────────────────────────────────────
-    let recv_deadline = Instant::now() + auction.receipt_timeout;
+    let receipt_timeout = receipt_wait(auction.receipt_timeout, &winner);
+    let recv_deadline = Instant::now() + receipt_timeout;
     while Instant::now() < recv_deadline {
         let remaining = recv_deadline.saturating_duration_since(Instant::now());
         match tokio::time::timeout(remaining, rx.recv()).await {
@@ -510,7 +511,7 @@ pub async fn run_auction(net: Arc<Libp2pNetwork>, auction: JobAuction) -> Result
 
     Err(AuctionFailure::NoReceipt(format!(
         "no receipt from winner {} within {:?}",
-        winner.bidder_peer_id, auction.receipt_timeout
+        winner.bidder_peer_id, receipt_timeout
     ))
     .into())
 }
@@ -653,6 +654,27 @@ async fn publish_json<T: serde::Serialize>(
     net.publish(topic, bytes).await
 }
 
+/// Bench score a workload's receipt timeout is calibrated for (dev2's image
+/// worker scores ~5,500 and draws a 512x512 image in ~2 min).
+pub const REFERENCE_BENCH_SCORE: u32 = 5_000;
+
+/// How long to wait for `winner`'s receipt: the auction's timeout, longer
+/// for a winner that says it needs longer (2.5x its quoted ETA) or that
+/// benchmarks slower than [`REFERENCE_BENCH_SCORE`] (scaled by how much
+/// slower), never more than 4x the timeout. A slow CPU node (bench 1,606)
+/// needed ~7 min per image against a 6 min timeout: it was benched for
+/// "never delivered", the job re-queued and went straight back to it.
+pub fn receipt_wait(base: Duration, winner: &JobBid) -> Duration {
+    let by_eta = Duration::from_secs(winner.eta_seconds.saturating_mul(5) / 2);
+    let by_bench = match winner.bench_score {
+        Some(score) if score > 0 && score < REFERENCE_BENCH_SCORE => {
+            base.mul_f64(REFERENCE_BENCH_SCORE as f64 / score as f64)
+        }
+        _ => base,
+    };
+    base.max(by_eta).max(by_bench).min(base.saturating_mul(4))
+}
+
 /// Gossipsub gives us a cryptographically-authenticated `source: Option<PeerId>`
 /// (see `c0mpute_net::GossipMessage`) that cannot be forged by another peer —
 /// `capabilities.rs`'s ad registry already keys off it for the same reason.
@@ -742,4 +764,22 @@ mod tests {
             None
         );
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn slow_or_busy_winners_get_longer_to_deliver() {
+        let base = Duration::from_secs(360);
+        let mut b = bid("w", None);
+        b.eta_seconds = 60;
+        b.bench_score = Some(5_560);
+        assert_eq!(receipt_wait(base, &b), base, "a reference-speed node: the plain timeout");
+        b.bench_score = Some(1_606);
+        let slow = receipt_wait(base, &b);
+        assert!(slow > Duration::from_secs(1100) && slow < Duration::from_secs(1200), "{slow:?}");
+        b.bench_score = None;
+        b.eta_seconds = 400;
+        assert_eq!(receipt_wait(base, &b), Duration::from_secs(1000), "2.5x its own ETA");
+        b.eta_seconds = 1_000_000;
+        assert_eq!(receipt_wait(base, &b), base * 4, "capped");
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "c0mpute-monorepo",
-  "version": "0.3.5",
+  "version": "0.3.6",
   "private": true,
   "workspaces": [
     "apps/*",

diff --git a/packages/captcha/package.json b/packages/captcha/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@profullstack/c0mpute-captcha",
-  "version": "0.3.5",
+  "version": "0.3.6",
   "description": "Solve image, slider, gap, click-text, audio and math captchas on the c0mpute network: library (fetch().then(solveCaptcha)), CLI and stdio MCP server.",
   "type": "module",
   "license": "MIT",

diff --git a/packages/shared/package.json b/packages/shared/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@c0mpute/shared",
-  "version": "0.3.5",
+  "version": "0.3.6",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "main": "./dist/index.js",

diff --git a/plugins/ad-generator-agent/module.toml b/plugins/ad-generator-agent/module.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "ad-generator-agent"
 name        = "Ad Generator Agent — every ad type from one URL"
-version     = "0.3.5"
+version     = "0.3.6"
 kind        = "service"
 category    = "applications"
 status      = "available"

diff --git a/plugins/ads-manager/module.toml b/plugins/ads-manager/module.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "ads-manager"
 name        = "Ads Manager — shared ad operations layer"
-version     = "0.3.5"
+version     = "0.3.6"
 kind        = "service"
 category    = "applications"
 status      = "partial"

diff --git a/plugins/apps/module.toml b/plugins/apps/module.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "apps"
 name        = "Apps — backends with 3x redundancy"
-version     = "0.3.5"
+version     = "0.3.6"
 kind        = "workload"
 category    = "infrastructure"
 status      = "available"

diff --git a/plugins/captcha/module.toml b/plugins/captcha/module.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "captcha"
 name        = "Captcha — image, slider, audio and math solving"
-version     = "0.3.5"
+version     = "0.3.6"
 kind        = "workload"
 category    = "ai"
 status      = "available"

diff --git a/plugins/coinpay/module.toml b/plugins/coinpay/module.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "coinpay"
 name        = "CoinPay — DID, payments, escrow, reputation"
-version     = "0.3.5"
+version     = "0.3.6"
 kind        = "service"
 category    = "applications"
 status      = "available"

diff --git a/plugins/crawl/module.toml b/plugins/crawl/module.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "crawl"
 name        = "Crawl — distributed web fetching"
-version     = "0.3.5"
+version     = "0.3.6"
 kind        = "workload"
 category    = "data"
 status      = "available"

diff --git a/plugins/crowdgpt/module.toml b/plugins/crowdgpt/module.toml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "crowdgpt"
 name        = "CrowdGPT: donate idle compute"
-version     = "0.3.5"
+version     = "0.3.6"
 kind        = "donation"
 category    = "ai"
 status      = "available"

diff --git a/plugins/ctv-ads/module.toml b/plugins/ctv-ads/module.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "ctv-ads"
 name        = "CTV Ads — VAST and VMAP from every gateway"
-version     = "0.3.5"
+version     = "0.3.6"
 kind        = "service"
 category    = "applications"
 status      = "partial"

diff --git a/plugins/diffusion/module.toml b/plugins/diffusion/module.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "diffusion"
 name        = "Diffusion — image generation"
-version     = "0.3.5"
+version     = "0.3.6"
 kind        = "workload"
 category    = "ai"
 status      = "available"

diff --git a/plugins/embed/module.toml b/plugins/embed/module.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "embed"
 name        = "Embeddings — vector generation"
-version     = "0.3.5"
+version     = "0.3.6"
 kind        = "workload"
 category    = "ai"
 status      = "available"

diff --git a/plugins/gameserver/module.toml b/plugins/gameserver/module.toml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "gameserver"
 name        = "Game server — Minecraft / Factorio / Valheim"
-version     = "0.3.5"
+version     = "0.3.6"
 kind        = "workload"
 category    = "infrastructure"
 status      = "available"

diff --git a/plugins/hosting/module.toml b/plugins/hosting/module.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "hosting"
 name        = "Hosting — p2p static sites"
-version     = "0.3.5"
+version     = "0.3.6"
 kind        = "service"
 category    = "data"
 status      = "available"

diff --git a/plugins/infernet/module.toml b/plugins/infernet/module.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "infernet"
 name        = "Infernet Protocol — AI inference"
-version     = "0.3.5"
+version     = "0.3.6"
 kind        = "workload"
 category    = "ai"
 status      = "available"