There's iroh.computer which can use a relay/ do direct nat punching.

They use bao hashing which is something that I discovered through them (IIRC) and its really nice.

Could create such a protocol though bittorrent/ipfs is fine

I once wanted to create a website which was just a static website.

and I used some ipfs gateway to push it with my browser and got a link of that static website, all anonymous.

Kind of great tbh.

Shame it's being abused by crypto bros who want to treat it as money.

There are other genuinely useful crypto projects (like Monero for privacy and I don't like the idea of smart contracts)

I really want to tell you the fact that most crypto is scam. These guys first went into crypto and now I am seeing so much crypto + AI.

As someone who genuinely is interested in crypto from a technology (decentralization perspective)

I see transactions as a byproduct not the end result & I see people wanting to earn a quick buck feel really weird.

Also crypto isn't safe. I just think like now its better to correlate as a tech stock though 99% of the time, its run by scams, so absolutely worse.

The technology is still fascinating. But just because the technology is fascinating doesn't mean its valuable. Many people are overselling their stuff.

That being said, I have actually managed to use crypto to create a permanent storage (something like ipfs but its forced to store it forever) , so I think this can be used where anonymity/decentralized is required. But still, this thing could be done without including money in the process as well & crypto is still not as decentralized as one might imagine.