Product updates

Until now, FreezeRadar product updates could be prepared in our content system without a dedicated public home. That made it too hard to see what had changed.

What's new

• A new Product updates page lists published releases in chronological order.
• Each release expands in place with the feature, improvement, or fix details.
• The page is linked from the site footer and included in the public sitemap.

Every user-visible FreezeRadar change will now be recorded here as a published release note.

Until now, the only way to see freeze activity as it happened was to check the stats page or scan a wallet directly. There was no running feed of individual events.

That's changed. Our new live events feed lists every freeze, unfreeze, and burn event we track, newest first, and refreshes automatically so you always see the latest activity without reloading the page.

What this means for you

• A running feed of every freeze, unfreeze, and burn event across the 9 chains we track.
• Filter by chain, asset, event type, or minimum amount — and share the exact filtered view with a link.
• Each entry links to the wallet's full history and the transaction on a public block explorer.
• An RSS feed is also available for anyone who wants to follow the feed outside the site.

Until now, seeing the big picture on FreezeRadar meant scanning wallets one at a time. There was no single place to see how much has been frozen in total, or how that breaks down across chains and assets.

That's changed. Our new stats page shows live totals pulled straight from issuer contract events: total value frozen, wallets blocked, the single largest freeze on record, and how many new freezes happened in the last 30 days. It also covers what other trackers don't — wallets that were later unfrozen, funds permanently burned by an issuer, and funds lost after being sent into an already-frozen wallet.

What this means for you

• A live snapshot of stablecoin freeze activity across all 9 chains we track, no scan needed.
• A breakdown by chain and by asset (USDT, USDC, PAXG, XAUt).
• A ready-to-copy summary for journalists and researchers who want to cite current numbers.
• The same data is also available as a public JSON API for anyone building on top of it.

Solana wallets could always be scanned on FreezeRadar, but freeze history for that chain was missing. If Circle or Tether froze a wallet's USDC or USDT there, we had no record of it.

That's fixed. FreezeRadar now watches Solana for freeze and unfreeze events on USDC, USDT, and PYUSD, and adds them to a wallet's history the same way we already do on Ethereum, Tron, and other chains.

What this means for you

• Frozen Solana wallets now show up in the freeze explorer, with the balance and transaction that triggered it.
• A wallet's history stays accurate whether the freeze happened on Solana or anywhere else we cover.

No action is needed on your end — this runs automatically as part of our regular data sync.

Most freeze checkers stop at USDT and USDC. But plenty of other coins can be frozen by whoever issues them, and until now there was no easy way to find out which.

We've added eight assets to our registry: PayPal's PYUSD, Paxos' USDP, BUSD, Circle's EURC, Ripple's RLUSD, TUSD, FDUSD, and DAI. For each one we record who the issuer is, on which chains it lives, and exactly how that issuer can freeze a balance — verified against the live contract, not copied from a blog post.

DAI is in the list for the opposite reason: it has no freeze switch at all, and that's worth knowing too.

What this means for you

• You can see at a glance whether the coin you hold can be frozen by anyone.
• For PYUSD, USDP, BUSD and EURC we also watch for freeze events as they happen.
• We fixed a bug that stopped us from catching Circle's blacklist events, so USDC and EURC freezes now show up properly.

More assets will follow. Risk scans still run on USDT, USDC, PAXG and XAUt for now.

If an issuer froze a wallet and later released it, FreezeRadar used to keep scoring that wallet as critical forever. The old freeze was still on record, and nothing in the score reflected that the restriction had been lifted. After the wave of releases earlier this year, that meant some perfectly usable addresses looked as bad as actively blocked ones.

We've fixed it. When you scan a wallet, we now ask the issuer's contract directly whether the address is blocked right now. That answer wins over anything in our event history, so a released wallet gets an accurate score instead of a permanent red flag.

Past freezes don't just disappear, though. A wallet that was frozen and then released still carries a moderate risk note, because that history is worth knowing about. And if the issuer destroyed the balance before releasing the address, that stays visible too.

If we can't reach the issuer contract during a scan, we fall back to our own records and lower the confidence score rather than guessing.

To see the updated score on a wallet you checked before, just run the scan again.

A frozen wallet isn't always the end of the story. Sometimes Tether goes a step further and permanently destroys the frozen balance, taking it out of circulation for good. Until now, FreezeRadar only showed the freeze itself — it had no way to tell you the funds were later burned.

That's changed. FreezeRadar now picks up these destruction events for USDT and XAUt, on both Ethereum-compatible chains and Tron, and adds them to a wallet's history alongside its freeze record. The amount destroyed comes straight from the burn transaction itself, so it reflects exactly what was removed from supply.

This distinction matters: a freeze can, in principle, be reversed, but a burn cannot. Knowing which one happened gives a clearer picture of a wallet's actual status.

No action is needed on your end — this runs automatically as part of our regular data sync.

Until now, FreezeRadar only picked up the moment an issuer added a wallet to its blacklist. If that same wallet was later cleared, our data didn't reflect it — the address could keep showing as frozen long after the restriction was actually lifted.

That's fixed. FreezeRadar now also tracks the removal side of the story for USDT, USDC, PAXG, and XAUt, across every chain we support. When Tether, Circle, or Paxos lifts a restriction, we pick it up and update the wallet's history accordingly.

What this means for you

• Freeze status on scanned wallets stays current, not just historical.
• Wallets that were cleared after a past freeze no longer show an outdated risk state.
• This is the foundation for more accurate scoring improvements we're rolling out next.

No action is needed on your end — this runs automatically in the background as part of our regular data sync.

FreezeRadar can now check a valid Bitcoin address against the sanctions data we ingest from official sources. The check validates the Bitcoin address checksum first, so a Solana address or a random Base58-looking string is not treated as Bitcoin.

What this means for you

This is intentionally a sanctions-only result. FreezeRadar does not run UTXO analysis, source-of-funds tracing, or a wallet-risk score for Bitcoin, and the result says so directly. A match is a risk signal for review, not a legal conclusion.

Wallet activity often reaches an exchange through a unique deposit address, rather than directly through the exchange’s public hot wallet. That can make a useful counterparty look like an unexplained address.

FreezeRadar now recognizes a narrow version of that pattern: when a meaningful direct counterparty sends at least 90% of its observed outgoing activity to a labelled exchange hot wallet, we show the counterparty as, for example, Binance (deposit address).

What this means for you

The attribution is clearly marked as inferred, carries lower confidence than a direct label, and is stored for future scans. We do not add an extra provider lookup for this feature; it reuses the targeted activity already reviewed during a standard scan.

This is contextual risk intelligence, not proof of account ownership or a legal conclusion. A reputable exchange attribution follows the existing reputation treatment, while a high-risk exchange attribution remains a risk signal.

FreezeRadar now checks a locally stored dataset of more than 100,000 address labels before it asks an external provider for an unknown address. The data comes from open, MIT-licensed sources and keeps its source and license alongside every label.

What this means for you

Known exchange, protocol, bridge, mixer and high-risk service labels can now be resolved faster and with less dependency on a single provider. Official and manually curated labels still take precedence over community data, and an external lookup remains a fallback only when no local label exists.

Labels describe observed context, not ownership proof or a legal conclusion. They are one input to FreezeRadar’s explainable wallet-risk assessment.

A clean wallet check is a point-in-time result. A counterparty that looked ordinary when you received a payment can later be frozen by an issuer or appear in newly ingested sanctions data. FreezeRadar now monitors the meaningful recent counterparties from eligible past scans and tells you when that happens.

What this means for you

For Pro, Pro Plus, and Business accounts, FreezeRadar keeps watch only on recent counterparties that represented more than 5% of a scan’s inbound or outbound activity. When one later becomes frozen or risk-listed, you receive a single clear alert with the address, the scan date, its share of activity, and a direct link to run a fresh scan.

You can mute an individual counterparty address from the alert center. This is a risk signal, not a legal conclusion or a guarantee about a wallet’s current balance. It is a prompt to pause and review before moving issuer-controlled assets.

FreezeRadar now keeps a running record of supported assets sent to a wallet after an issuer freeze took effect. That gives you more context than a blacklist label alone: it shows whether people have continued to send assets to an address that may no longer be able to use them.

What this means for you

When a wallet is currently frozen, scan results and its public address page now show a direct warning before you act. Where data is available, the warning includes the number of incoming transfers seen after the freeze and the known USD value for dollar-pegged assets.

This is a risk signal, not a guarantee about every transfer or a legal conclusion. But it is a simple reminder to pause: sending issuer-controlled assets to a frozen wallet can make them unrecoverable. FreezeRadar refreshes the tracker incrementally so the warning stays useful without repeatedly reprocessing the same activity.

FreezeRadar now includes cryptocurrency seizure orders from Israel’s National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF) in supported wallet checks. These records can identify wallets connected to terrorism-financing cases that may need extra review before you receive, send, or hold freezeable assets.

What this means for you

When a supported wallet matches an NBCTF record, your scan now flags it as a direct sanctions-level match and identifies the category as terrorism financing. That makes the result easier to understand and document separately from other sanctions or high-risk labels.

We review the published NBCTF orders before adding them, so the data remains tied to the original source rather than relying on an automated PDF reader. This is a risk signal, not a legal conclusion. If you see a match, pause the transaction and use the appropriate compliance or legal review process for your situation.