福利加码,Gate 广场明星带单交易员二期招募开启!
入驻发帖 · 瓜分 $20,000 月度奖池 & 千万级流量扶持!
如何参与:
1️⃣ 报名成为跟单交易员:https://www.gate.com/copytrading/lead-trader-registration/futures
2️⃣ 报名活动:https://www.gate.com/questionnaire/7355
3️⃣ 入驻 Gate 广场,持续发布交易相关原创内容
丰厚奖励等你拿:
首帖福利:首发优质内容即得 $30 跟单体验金
双周内容激励:每双周瓜分 $500U 内容奖池
排行榜奖励:Top 10 交易员额外瓜分 $20,000 登榜奖池
流量扶持:精选帖推流、首页推荐、周度明星交易员曝光
活动时间:2026 年 2 月 12 日 18:00 – 2 月 24 日 24:00(UTC+8)
详情:https://www.gate.com/announcements/article/49849
Cheaper Fees on Ethereum Fuel Surge in Address Poisoning Scams - Crypto Economy
TL;DR
The reduction in gas fees on Ethereum following the Fusaka upgrade in December 2025 generated an unintended side effect: an exponential increase in address poisoning attacks. What was meant to improve network accessibility ended up becoming a breeding ground for scammers who can now send millions of dust transactions at negligible cost.
Leon Waidmann, head of research at Lisk, highlighted the current paradox on X. Stablecoin volume reached $7.5 trillion in a single quarter, while transaction fees remained below one dollar. “Record usage. Record cheap. At the same time,” he wrote, pointing to the largest divergence between fundamentals and price in the crypto ecosystem.
Blockchain researcher Andrey Sergeenkov published a study revealing how address poisoning attacks skyrocketed after Fusaka. The upgrade reduced gas fees sixfold, making operations cheap enough to scale these types of fraud.
Millions in Losses Within Just Two Months
The address poisoning mechanism involves sending small transfers from addresses that mimic the victim’s regular contacts. If the user copies the wrong address from their history for a subsequent transaction, funds end up in attackers’ hands. Sergeenkov describes the practice as a lottery: scammers send millions of low-cost transactions hoping for a few large payoffs.
Before Fusaka, attackers sent approximately 30,000 dust transactions per day, according to Sergeenkov’s analysis of 101 tokens between September 2025 and February 2026. After the upgrade, the figure jumped to 167,000 daily, with a peak of 510,000 on a single day in January.

The economic consequences are telling. In just over two months after Fusaka, victims lost more than $63 million. That figure multiplies by 13 the $4.9 million stolen in a comparable period before the upgrade.

A single transfer, which occurred on December 19, 2025, concentrated a large portion of the losses by stealing $50 million in USDT. Even excluding that case, thefts reached $13.3 million, 2.7 times higher than in the previous period.
Sergeenkov criticized the prioritization of growth over security: “There is nothing wrong with lowering fees, but the security problems that cheap transactions amplify should have been addressed before the upgrade. When the Ethereum Foundation claims it is building trillion-dollar security, user safety must be the strictest priority over growth metrics.“