Continuous Small-Scale Meme Token Poisoning Transfers from Huobi-Related Addresses
On-chain data shows that addresses marked as HTX DepositAndWithdraw (reported as sanctioned addresses) continue to send small transfers of meme tokens to Kraken user addresses, including PEPE, TURBO, SHIB, etc., with individual values mostly around $0.5 to $0.8.
DeFi observers point out that Huobi's poisoning transfers are ongoing, now shifting from USDT to various small meme tokens, and using separate Huobi wallet addresses for operations, with hundreds of transactions daily, resembling task execution.
The total assets of the address are approximately $66,600, holding ETH, USDT, and USDC. Related transfers are viewed by some users as address poisoning or dusting attacks, which may affect the compliance review of the recipients on other exchanges.
HTX previously denied that such transfers were initiated by the official account, stating that internal investigations found no involvement of official accounts and that some reports were exaggerated. Due to sanctions affecting HTX, platforms like Kraken have restricted funds from related addresses.
The incident continues to spark discussions on the risks of hot wallet operations and address pollution at exchanges.
From a market mechanism perspective, small meme transfers increase compliance risks for receiving addresses, potentially leading to frozen or reviewed funds; the incident is driven by on-chain operations, with unclear beneficiaries, putting pressure on recipients and users relying on address cleanliness.
Source: Public Information
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HTX-related addresses have been continuously observed sending small meme tokens to Kraken users, extending the previous USDT dust controversy, indicating that even with official denial, the behavior of marking addresses on-chain is still ongoing and changing token types.
In terms of capital pathways, operators frequently transfer at extremely low costs to implant similar or polluted markers into the target address history, possibly motivated by testing, interference, or exploiting compliance mechanisms related to sanctions, with specific actions including hundreds of small meme transfers daily.
Similar cases have been seen in recent years involving dusting and poisoning incidents at exchanges or related addresses, as well as chain freezes caused by sanction lists; currently, crypto compliance is in a highly sensitive phase concerning exchange addresses and sanction lists.
Essentially, this reflects regulatory changes: sanction lists and address markings convert small transfers into compliance risks, as receiving marked funds may trigger automatic reviews or freezes, thereby amplifying the actual impact of dusting operations.
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- The real lethality of small meme transfers lies in the compliance reviews they trigger.
- Hundreds of "tasks" daily are no longer ordinary dusting.
- Transfers from sanctioned addresses can drag the recipient into the risk pool.