Yes, I also believe the recent bullish and rally was thanks to the market finally caught up with the hype surround of DeFi project. When I saw Kucoin and Binance exchange tweet about DeFi then it clearly set a new trend to the public.
You made a very good point. The truth is that I never knew about defi projects until I saw the tweet by binance ceo, it gave me an impression that something great is cooking and going through the forum posts, it's obvious that several people are interested in the defi project discussion.