| What to Know: – Added Address Poisoning Protection across 32 EVM chains to prevent copy-paste scams. – Warns about suspicious lookalike addresses and history-seeding zero-value spam transfers. – Supplementary safeguard; widespread poisoning caused $83.8M losses; stablecoins frequently targeted. |
trust wallet has added Address Poisoning Protection across 32 EVM chains, targeting schemes that plant lookalike addresses in transaction histories. The move focuses on reducing copy‑paste errors that scammers exploit.
Based on data from a January 2025 arXiv study by Tsuchiya, Dong, Soska and Christin (https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16681), researchers tracked 270 million poisoning attempts aimed at 17 million victims. The study links 6,633 successful attacks to about $83.8 million in confirmed losses and details zero‑value ‘spam’ transfers and near‑matching addresses.
According to Webacy’s September 2025 analysis (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-ctos-desk-september-2025-address-poisoning-results-analysis-qmfuc), there were 32,290 address‑poisoning events affecting 6,516 unique victims across EVM networks. Stablecoins emerged as frequent targets in those incidents.
Trust Wallet’s protection surfaces clear warnings around suspicious addresses and history‑seeding attempts. It is an additional safeguard and does not replace user verification.
Across the 32 EVM chains, the feature scans addresses at entry or paste and flags lookalikes before a transaction is signed, as reported by Longbridge News (https://longbridge.com/news/278537990). The system also taps threat‑intelligence sources such as HashDit to identify counterfeit or previously abused addresses.
By targeting dust and zero‑value transfers that poison histories, the tool seeks to reduce confusion across supported networks. It does not eliminate risk, and users still need to verify recipient details carefully.
Industry leadership has urged wallets to implement earlier warnings and filter bait transactions. ‘Wallet‑level safeguards’ are needed to ‘block known “poison” addresses’ and filter trivial‑value ‘spam’ transactions, said Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao, Co‑Founder of Binance (https://financefeeds.com/binances-cz-calls-for-wallet-level-fixes-to-stop-poisoning-scams/).
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