indeed, bit different.
lots of people worked in this field and made these tools. Around 2014 the state of the art was 20k DHT responses per second, see '100 million DHT replies'.
https://doi.org/10.1109/P2P.2014.6934318
I just read some interesting proposals in the GH issues and recognized your username. This is some nice piece of work - will definitely return to read more about the underlying concepts.
We are working in a similar area with similar problems: Building a new Tor/VPN-like privacy network. See https://safing.io/spn/