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That name's already taken.
Look into IPv6 ephemeral addresses.
Sounds good! But does it provide encryption tho?
IPv6 supports IPsec, but I think this proposal would be closer to Tor/I2P over IPv6.
For example, a client using an IPv6 ephemeral address, accessing a Tor hidden site, hosted on another client using an IPv6 ephemeral address, will both encrypt, and anonymize both endpoints, with a very short window for any de-anonymization attempts.
I2P will also scramble the whole connection over multiple circuits.
EDIT: reading closer the proposal, I see you only consider connections to public targets, with intermediate nodes keeping a cache of the circuit, and using a shortest path algorithm. It would seem to me that a client on IPv6 ephemeral using a HTTPS (with ECH) connection over Tor, would be safer than in this proposal. Choosing random intermediate nodes is a feature to reduce the chance of a single actor controlling all nodes on the path and being able to log the whole circuit.
I2P takes that a couple steps farther, adding more intermediate nodes, splitting the send and receive parts over different circuits, and expiring circuits periodically.