Trust Wallet has launched address-poisoning protection that automatically screens destination wallets for scam or lookalike addresses across 32 Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible blockchains.
The noncustodial wallet provider said the feature checks a user’s transaction destination against a database of known malicious addresses to prevent cryptocurrency transfers to scam wallets.
Trust Wallet described address poisoning as one of the “fastest-growing threats in crypto,” claiming the tactic has already resulted in more than 225 million attacks and about $500 million in confirmed losses.
Address poisoning scams typically involve attackers sending small transactions from lookalike addresses in hopes that victims copy the malicious wallet address from their transaction history when making future transfers.
Two recent attacks highlighted the scale of the risk, with victims losing about $62 million in cryptocurrency including a $50 million USDt theft in December 2025.
“All wallets should simply check if a receiving address is a poison address, and block the user,”
Said Binance former chief executive, Changpeng Zhao.
Security threats have increasingly targeted crypto wallets, including a December 2025 compromise of Trust Wallet’s Chrome browser extension that resulted in roughly $7 million in user losses before the company released a patched version and pledged reimbursement.
At the time of reporting, Ethereum price was $2,024.23.