- Address Poisoning Protection is the response to that reality: automatic, real-time alerts that offer users the information they need before they act.
- Chainalysis has reported recently that around $17 billion was lost to crypto scams in 2025, mainly influenced by the rise of AI-enabled impersonation tactics.
Trust Wallet has rolled out a new security feature to safeguard users from a common type of crypto scam known as address poisoning. The feature will be accessible on Trust Wallet for mobile over 32 EVM chains, with extra chains planned.
As per the publication, the new Trust Address Poisoning Protection will instinctively scan user transactions to detect false addresses and alert users before any false funds are sent, a scam that comprises sending small transactions from similar wallet addresses to trick users into copying the wrong place.
The tool will leverage aggregated intelligence from HashDit and Binance Security to verify known scam and similar addresses. It will also make a side-by-side comparison to show where the addresses differ.
The chief executive officer of Trust Wallet, Felix Fan, mentioned that the threat is made to be invisible: a few characters buried in the middle of a long string, easy to miss and expensive to ignore.
Others To Permit Automatic Transaction
Address Poisoning Protection is the response to that reality: automatic, real-time alerts that offer users the information they need before they act. Chainalysis has reported recently that around $17 billion was lost to crypto scams in 2025, mainly influenced by the rise of AI-enabled impersonation tactics.
Trust Wallet is not the sole entity to permit automatic transaction protections. Ledger Live, for instance, provides “clear signing” to give complete transaction details along with a whitelisting option for trusted addresses.
Safe, which also provides some address poisoning safeguarding, mentioned that this form of “spoofing” is comparatively new and has been a surging issue in the past few years. Security firm Cyvers mentioned that it has been finding over 1 million address-poisoning preparations per day on Ethereum, while Trust approximates 34,000 attacks occur every hour, aiming at 17 million victims, as per the spokesperson.
For its part, Trust Wallet mentions Address Poisoning Protection is set to be made on its current security stack, comprising a transaction-level risk tool launched in 2023.
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