diff --git a/nym-sphinx-wasm/Cargo.toml b/nym-sphinx-wasm/Cargo.toml
index f000325369..69e91b6c90 100644
--- a/nym-sphinx-wasm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/nym-sphinx-wasm/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,6 +38,14 @@ wee_alloc = { version = "0.4.2", optional = true }
 [dev-dependencies]
 wasm-bindgen-test = "0.2"
 
-[profile.release]
+# This gets ignored right now, and there is a compiler warning generated:
+# "warning: profiles for the non root package will be ignored, specify profiles 
+# at the workspace root"
+#
+# I'm OK with that for the moment, I don't want to put it in the root Cargo file
+# as I'm unclear what effect it'll have and I'm still experimenting with wasm. 
+# But it's good that we are reminded to do something about it before any 
+# production release.
+[profile.release] 
 # Tell `rustc` to optimize for small code size.
 opt-level = "s"