# EthereumWarnsonAddressPoisoning

The recent $50M USDT phishing incident tied to lookalike Ethereum addresses is a stark reminder of how small UX decisions can have massive financial consequences. In this case, the truncation of wallet addresses showing only the first and last few characters made it easier for attackers to exploit human trust and pattern recognition. When two addresses look nearly identical at a glance, users often assume they are sending funds to the correct destination. This incident has rightly pushed the Ethereum community to urge wallet providers to rethink how addresses are displayed and verified.
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#EthereumWarnsonAddressPoisoning
The recent $50 million USDT phishing incident on Ethereum has become a defining moment for wallet security and user experience in crypto. What makes this case especially troubling is that it wasn’t caused by a vulnerability in a smart contract, a broken protocol, or a complex exploit. It was caused by something far more ordinary and far more dangerous: lookalike wallet addresses combined with truncated address displays.
For years, wallets have shortened Ethereum addresses to improve readability and visual cleanliness. Users typically see only the first and las

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#EthereumWarnsonAddressPoisoning
The $50M USDT phishing incident caused by lookalike Ethereum addresses has exposed a systemic problem in crypto security that goes beyond simple user error: truncated wallet addresses are inherently unsafe in adversarial environments, and the ecosystem has relied on this dangerous practice for far too long. Most wallets display only the first few and last few characters of an address something like implicitly training users to assume that verifying just the visible segments is sufficient. Attackers exploit this predictability by generating addresses that share