How to Run a Safe OTC Stablecoin Deal

Screen the counterparty, verify the on-chain payment, document the deal, and keep watching after close so you do not inherit USDT or USDC freeze risk.

Safe OTC Deals

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Who this is for What to do before you agree How to keep records Limits after the deal closes Related reading

Most OTC freeze risk is contagion rather than an obvious criminal on the other side. You accept USDT or USDC from a wallet you did not screen, and their problem becomes yours: a frozen balance, a blocked withdrawal, or a review months later. Screen before you agree, verify before you release, document the deal, and keep watching after it closes.

Check a wallet before you act

Run a FreezeRadar scan for issuer-freeze signals, sanctions exposure, counterparty risk, and freezeable asset sensitivity before moving funds.

Scan a wallet

Who this is for

Peer-to-peer and OTC desks that settle in freezeable stablecoins and need a repeatable process rather than a one-time screenshot check.

What to do before you agree

How to Run a Safe OTC Crypto Deal is the core checklist: screen the counterparty wallet before you agree on price, verify the actual on-chain payment before you release the asset, and keep watching after close.

A wallet scan is the pre-trade screen. Scoring methodology explains how to read a high-risk result.

How to keep records

A clean deal today does not help if you cannot reconstruct it six months later. P2P and OTC Stablecoin Documentation covers invoices, identity, hashes, and payment proof.

Limits after the deal closes

A wallet can look clean on trade day and get flagged later. OTC counterparty flagged after the deal covers that case. Ongoing monitoring, not a one-time check, is what catches it.

Never release on a screenshot. Never use FreezeRadar output to bypass an issuer freeze or a sanctions hit.

Wallet already flagged? What to do if it is frozen.
Running this at business scale? Compliance for teams.

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