In brief
- Some 22% of U.S. adults have ever owned or used crypto, up from 18% in 2025, but past-year use held at 13%, and the growth came mostly from lapsed users.
- Only 19% say the financial system is secure, and 63% say it needs an upgrade to combat threats like AI and cybercrime. Yet just 4% trust crypto exchanges.
- Only 2% are very familiar with DeFi, though 40% say they’d be at least somewhat likely to try it.
More Americans have tried crypto than a year ago. Far fewer are still using it.
Some 22% of U.S. adults say they have ever owned or used crypto, up from 18% in 2025, according to a national survey conducted by Ipsos for the DeFi Education Fund, a crypto policy advocacy group. But the share who used crypto in the past 12 months…
