My response to this will be less specific than you might appreciate :)  I have little understanding of blockchain mechanics and even less understanding of NFTs.  I am, however, interested in the process of scientific research.

I remember reading with amazement about Marie Curie's path to the Nobel Prize (shared with Bequerel).  It was mostly measuring.  Painstaking measuring and insight into what she was observing.  The fact that she shared the prize with Bequerel is commentary on the dynamics of research attribution and politics.

I also remember the conflict between Watson/Crick and Rosalind Franklin when it came to receiving credit for 'discovering' the structure of DNA.  Once again, politics entered into it.

So...your suggestion that we get around the traditional publishing/accreditation stream in research probably is headed in the right direction.  It certainly is a messy state of affairs as things stand now.  

Good luck with that idea.  Innovation and throwing off institutional choke holds is almost always a good thing.