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The DHT exists and is already a fully distributed system.
Even without the DHT, there is no centralization in Bittorrent that would lend itself to federation. Anyone with a complete copy of the data can already start their own tracker.
Do you perhaps mean a federated content index that links to torrents or magnet URIs?