At least the prices are almost normal again, now that Chia's over.
You could also have self modifying code such that the size of the binary automatically changes as needed.
If you ship a lisp interpreter instead of rust, you can have the interpreter recode itself and any lisp files to a smaller size. You’d just implement a compression algorithm that preserves the functionality of the code compressed.
I think you could do that with rust too with a self compiling binary. It’ll require some real technical skill but if you hire a real hacker you can pull it off.
My cousin his solution for the competitive programming contest had something like that.
I do have a project a bit like that, but I'm not using Rust for it. I was trying to make my own language (like Rust, but more powerful and also smaller), but I'm probably just going to use a modified (safer) C.
If I were to write it in Rust, I'd have to compile it in the first place… and if I could do that easily, I would simply use Rust.