Networking
The node opens one outbound connection to the marketplace gateway and keeps it open. Offers go out on it and jobs come back on it, tokens and receipts included. Nothing connects in to your machine.
What that means
Section titled “What that means”- No public hostname, no certificate, no port forwarding. A Mac on home Wi-Fi behind carrier-grade NAT is a complete provider.
- Outbound HTTPS to the gateway must be allowed, which is true of almost every network.
- The connection is authenticated by the signed offer your node sends first; the gateway checks it against your registration on chain.
- If the connection drops, the node reconnects on its own with a short backoff. Jobs in flight at that moment end without a receipt, so they are not billed and not paid.
Latency
Section titled “Latency”Validators measure time to first token. A slow uplink counts against you the same way a slow GPU does. A wired connection helps; the gateway sits in the same region as most buyers.
Direct dialing
Section titled “Direct dialing”Operators who run in a data centre can register a public HTTPS address as well and start the node with -listen. The router then dials that address for jobs while the connection still carries offers. This is optional and offers no advantage for a single machine.