22% of Americans Have Used Crypto, But Past-Year Use Stays Flat at 13%

The gap between lifetime and past-year use points to a retention problem rather than an adoption story: the pool of people who have tried crypto is widening, but the active base is not. That distinction matters for anyone reading survey data as a demand signal, since headline familiarity figures can overstate ongoing engagement. The open question is whether the widening lifetime figure eventually converts into active use, or whether crypto settles into a pattern of broad experimentation with a stable, narrower core of regular users.