Oooh interesting! I've been reading up on DHT's for the first time recently (I'm very late to the party).

It looks like the original inspiration was an anti-censorship network for sharing/providing scientific papers: https://eli.sohl.com/2017/02/17/theseus-robust-system-for-pr...

But as another poster noted, the project seems to be defunct do it being a solo effort: https://eli.sohl.com/2017/02/17/theseus-robust-system-for-pr...

I'm curious why the OP is interested in this project, or if anyone else has any interesting DHT tools they want to share?