The introduction of a slew of new DeFi projects, as well as the sector's growing popularity, were accompanied by a flood of funding. Synthetix (SNX), saw its network token rise 28.75 percent in the last 24 hours and 62.88 percent in the last week. Another DeFi lending protocol, Aave (AAVE), saw its token rise 23.82 percent and 34.17 percent during the same time period. SushiSwap (SUSHI), saw its native coin's price rise by 24.11 percent and 13.18 percent, respectively.