Trust Wallet deploys protection against address poisoning on Ethereum and BNB Chain

Crypto attacks have multiplied in recent months, with each week bringing a slew of bad surprises. Yet, no one stands idle. Wallets are reacting with determination. Technical teams are tirelessly activated. Concrete solutions are finally emerging. Trust Wallet today takes a major step forward. The mobile wallet launches unprecedented protection against address poisoning. Behind this announcement, figures that chill the blood.

Digital poison: Trust Wallet counterattacks after 225 million crypto attacks

First, let’s measure the scale of the disaster striking our ecosystem. More than 225 million address poisoning attacks have been detected to date. Over 500 million dollars have vanished in this well-oiled scam. The company Cyvers spots more than one million “preparations” each day on the Ethereum blockchain alone.

Trust Wallet estimates that 34,000 attacks are launched every hour against users. They potentially target 17 million victims worldwide. Last December, an investor lost 50 million dollars in USDT all at once. Fifty million simply by copying a trapped address from his history.

The CEO of Trust Wallet, Felix Fan, sums up the situation with words that resonate:

The threat is designed to be invisible: a handful of characters buried in the middle of a long string, easy to miss and costly to ignore.

Faced with this silent carnage, it was necessary to act quickly and firmly.

The technique that saves your cryptos: how Trust Wallet traps fraudsters

Specifically, how does this new protection implemented by Trust Wallet work? The app now queries the Intel Security API in real time. This shared database aggregates data from HashDit and Binance Security. When you copy or enter a destination address, the system instantly compares it to a blacklist of already known fraudulent addresses.

If the address is indeed trapped, a red screen blocks the transaction before it even starts. The wallet does not just alert the user in a basic way. It displays a side-by-side comparison between the suspicious address and the legitimate address it imitates. The different characters appear clearly, especially those in the middle that we never look at when in a hurry.

The system is fully automatic; no manual activation is required. This protection covers 32 EVM-compatible blockchains from the official launch. Among them are Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Polygon, Optimism, Arbitrum, Avalanche, and Base.

A massive deployment that places Trust Wallet on the front line of the generalized counterattack.

CZ’s call and the weight of the past: Trust Wallet’s crypto redemption

The timing of this announcement is no coincidence, to say the least. On December 24, 2025, Changpeng Zhao posted from his sickbed a message that would make history.

All wallets should simply check if a destination address is poisoned, and block the user. It’s a blockchain request.

CZ

Binance Wallet was already applying the directive without delay. Trust Wallet, a subsidiary of the group, had to follow this call imperatively. Especially since the same month, its Chrome extension was compromised causing 7 to 8 million dollars in losses. An embarrassment for a Binance subsidiary, to be honest.

So this new protection bears a very clear double signature. That of technical redemption after this painful episode. And that of obedience to the call of the founding father.

However, Hacken experts warn that the user remains the weak link. As long as they copy their addresses from history, the risk will persist nonetheless.

The technology alerts, educates, protects effectively, but it cannot prevent a hasty action.

The poison hunt in numbers

• 225 million: number of address poisoning attacks detected to date;
• 500 million: confirmed dollars lost in this single scam;
• 34,000: attacks launched every hour against crypto users;
• 32: EVM blockchains covered by the new protection from launch;
• 0.4888 dollar: price of the TWT token at the time of writing this article.

The year 2025 was bloody for the security of digital assets. Trust Wallet was hacked, Ledger exposed its users to new risks. Attacks multiplied, as did losses. But fortunately, concrete solutions are emerging to protect cryptocurrencies. This new protection against address poisoning is living proof. The war continues, but the weapons are improving.