Trust Wallet Unveils Address Poisoning Protection for 32 EVM Chains

Trust Wallet has introduced an automated address poisoning protection feature to safeguard its users against phishing attacks. The tool screens destination wallet addresses against a database of known scam and lookalike addresses before a transaction is sent.

The initial rollout covers 32 Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible blockchains, including Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Polygon, Optimism, Arbitrum, Avalanche, and Base.

Address poisoning is a phishing method in which attackers send small transactions to a target wallet, with the goal of getting the recipient to later copy the attacker's address from their transaction history by mistake.

According to Trust Wallet, more than 225 million such attacks have occurred, resulting in $500 million in confirmed losses. In recent months, two investors lost a combined $62 million to address poisoning attacks, with one of them losing $50 million in USDT in December 2025.