wondering if anyone knows a Verifiable-Compute Protocol? (if that's the right name) 

basically a way for anyone to run a compute-heavy server (i.e. web2 services), provide data APIs or fulfill requests, and the protocol coordinates attestations/slashing for those who misbehave.

it's not as secure as eth but scalable!

real-time web3 indexing @ flair.dev - contributor @ github.com/erpc/erpc

"those who misbehave" as in when the server misbehaves?
zkp should kinda solve this problem as in it wouldn't be possible for the server to misbehave and get away with it but ofc it comes with proving costs