The post CZ slams Etherscan over address poisoning spam appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

CZ goes after Etherscan for displaying spam transactions from address poisoning scams, stating block explorers should filter out the malicious transfers completely. Summary CZ says block explorers should filter address-poisoning spam. A user received 89 poisoning alerts in 30 minutes after two transfers. Attackers use lookalike addresses and zero-value transfers to trick users. The former Binance CEO posted on X that TrustWallet already implements this filtering, while Etherscan continues showing zero-value poisoning transactions that flood user wallets. The criticism follows an incident where a user identified as Nima received 89 address-poisoning emails in under 30 minutes after making just two stablecoin transfers on Ethereum. Etherscan issued a warning about the attack, which aims to trick users into copying lookalike addresses from transaction history when sending funds. “So many will fall victim to this,” Nima warned after the automated attack campaign targeted his wallet. Block explorers should not show these spam transactions. Should be simple to filter them out completely. @TrustWallet does this already. This may have some impact on micro transactions between AI agents later. By then, we can use AI to filter out the spam too. https://t.co/97B1UmYkQF — CZ 🔶 BNB (@cz_binance) March 13, 2026 CZ goes after Etherscan for displaying spam transactions Xeift clarified that Etherscan hides zero-value transfers by default, but BscScan and Basescan require users to click a “hide 0 amount tx” button explicitly to remove address poisoning attack transactions. The difference in default settings leaves some users exposed to viewing spam that could lead to sending funds to attacker-controlled addresses. CZ noted the filtering may affect micro transactions between AI agents in the future, suggesting AI could be used to distinguish legitimate zero-value transfers from spam. Dr. Favezy pointed out that swaps create additional risks beyond address poisoning. A swap from the 0x98 wallet that…

---

Filed under: News - @ March 14, 2026 6:45 pm