I do not understand why Blocknet's name has become more popular lately. As far as I know, it has been present for a long time. Right?
Honestly, I've just heard their name recently because the most popular that I've been hearing before is always IDEX. I've used the dex personally until they started to ask about KYC. I don't know about blocknet on how long they already are.
But Binance took over it easily, they have an established centralized exchange and upon building up a so called 'dex', they've easily gathered the attention of every trader that likes dexes.