I might be crazy, but I got a side project to write a DHT using iroh. The key is to use QUIC 0-rtt connections to keep the connection overhead minimal.

But at this point it is just a toy project to push the limits of what is possible with iroh and 0-rtt. It is not used in prod and won't be any time soon :-)

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/lets-write-a-dht-1