Cold connect gets a fast path: the last-known-good entry gateway and IPR
are persisted (choices only, keys stay ephemeral) and tried first on the
next launch - measured 4.4s to tunnel-ready vs 5.6s cold, and no dead-
random-gateway lottery. Cached hints self-clear on failure and fall back
to auto-select.
The price appears instantly: the last fetched rate (under 48h) paints on
the first frame and a live fetch fires the moment the tunnel is ready
instead of waiting for the balance screen. The eager fetch doubles as an
end-to-end probe: if the first reads all fail while the tunnel claims
ready, the exit is condemned and reselected in seconds instead of
minutes. warm_up now runs first at startup.
Money path (streamexit.rs, transport.rs) untouched; ponytail sweep
verified all fallback paths and gates green.
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