Twenty-two percent of US adults say they have held or used crypto, according to a new survey — up 4 percentage points from 18% a year earlier. But only 13% actually used crypto in the past 12 months, unchanged from a year ago. In other words, more people tried it for the first time, but the number of people sticking with it did not grow.

The findings come from a survey commissioned by the DeFi Education Fund and conducted by pollster Ipsos among 1,545 US adults between September 8 and 16. The margin of error is plus or minus 2.8 percentage points. The poll was run through Ipsos’s probability-based KnowledgePanel, the same panel the Federal Reserve uses for its household finance survey.

The 4-point gain was effectively produced by…