Comment by ikmckenz

Looks like past events had deep technical talks on libp2p's DHT (https://p2p.paris/en/talks/libp2p-dht/), and a novel gossip based pubsub protocol (https://p2p.paris/en/talks/gossipub/). Pretending that there is zero overlap between "crypto and blockchain bullshit" and p2p work is detrimental to everyone involved, there is serious p2p research and work being done both from crypto projects and from more traditional projects.