Dusting attacks

Someone sends tiny amounts of crypto, called dust, to many wallets at once.

What it means

Moving the dust together with your other coins can show which addresses belong together, and dust tokens with a website in their name often lead to phishing sites.

What to watch

Tiny amounts or unknown tokens you did not expect; many people leave them alone and do not open links found in token names.

How Compass-Alpha uses it

Wallet token lists hide dust worth less than €0.01 and flag suspicious tokens with a warning.