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Fusaka Upgrade Fuels Record Address Poisoning on Ethereum

Price ActionNetwork & Infrastructure
February 20, 2026
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Fusaka Upgrade Fuels Record Address Poisoning on Ethereum

Ethereum has spent years trying to fix high fees, and recent upgrades finally made transactions cheaper. But while they solved one problem, they may have opened the door to another.

Leon Waidmann, head of research at Lisk, noted in an X post on Wednesday, Feb. 18, that network activity is booming, with stablecoin volume hitting $7.5 trillion in a single quarter while transaction fees stayed under a dollar.

“Record usage. Record cheap. At the same time. The biggest divergence between fundamentals and price in all of crypto right now,” he noted.

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