Haha, I think the more official name is Hypercore, Hyperdrive is a part of the stack. But no there are no shitcoins involved, lol. (Check out Holepunch.to for a toolset to build with it)

I think of it as the next major evolutionary step of BitTorrent. My bet is it will be the dominant P2P traffic protocol on the internet in a few years. I’m in the process of building an app on it that is going to be sick. Hopefully a closed alpha isn’t in the too distant future so some people can test it out.