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📢 CZ_Binance [retweet] | 🕒 2026-10-29 02: 44: 23 🔗 [Source]

🇨🇳 RT @MetaFinancialAI: Address poisoning across four blockchains.

Scammers send a fake 0 USDT transfer, causing a similar address with the same beginning and ending as the address you use to appear in your transaction history. If you are not careful, your money will be gone.

We sampled 24 hours of USDT and USDC transfer data from each blockchain. Here is the proportion of zero-value transfers:

• Ethereum: 13.5%, approximately 177,000 transactions per day

• Base: 2.7%

• BNB chain: 1.1%• Arbitrum: 0.4%On the BNB chain, all 40 zero-value transfers we sampled were sent by strangers rather than account owners. This is a classic poisoning pattern.

Ethereum’s poisoning rate is BNB times that of the 12 chain, even though the basic transfer fee on the BNB chain is only about 1/12 of Ethereum’s (today 0.0008 USD vs 0.0098 USD).

This is no small matter. A study by USENIX Security 2025 found that between 2022 and 2024 there were a total of BNB attack attempts on Ethereum and the 270000000 chains, affecting 17000000 victims and causing losses of at least 83800000 USD.

Measures currently in place:

• Binance security researchers developed a detector that matches similar addresses with their target addresses and submits the matches to HashDit.

• Before you sign, Trust Wallet checks each target address against a database of known scam addresses and similar addresses across BNB chains, including the 32 chain.

• On Binance, you can lock withdrawals to an address whitelist.

Your responsibility: 1. Never copy addresses from your transaction history. 2. Use an address book or whitelist. 3. Read the full address.

Stay safe.🔶 🇺🇸 RT @MetaFinancialAI: Address poisoning, measured on four chains.

The trick: a scammer sends you a fake 0 USDT transfer, so a look alike address appears in your history, with the same first and last characters as one you use. One careless copy later, the money is gone.

We sampled 24 hours of USDT and USDC transfers on each chain. Share that were exactly zero:

• Ethereum: 13.5%, about 177,000 a day • Base: 2.7% • BNB Chain: 1.1% • Arbitrum: 0.4%

On BNB Chain, all 40 zero transfers we opened were sent by a stranger, not the account owner. The textbook pattern.

Ethereum's poison rate is 12 times BNB Chain's, even though a basic transfer on BNB Chain costs about 12 times less ($0.0008 vs $0.0098 today).

It is not small. A USENIX Security 2025 study counted 270 million attempts and 17 million victims on Ethereum and BNB Chain from 2022 to 2024, with at least $83.8M stolen.