Product updates

If a stablecoin balance you hold or received just got frozen, panic is the worst starting point — and "recovery" scammers know it, which is exactly why they target people in this moment.

Our academy guide walking through what to check first, what evidence to keep, who to actually contact, and how to spot a recovery scam before it costs you more money is now available in Russian, Spanish, and Turkish, alongside English.

What changed

• The guide now covers English, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
• Every version links to the others, so you can switch languages without losing your place.
• Search engines are told which version belongs to which language and region.

This is the first of several academy guides we're translating — more languages and more guides are on the way.

If you've ever needed a number for a story about stablecoin freezes, /press is now built for exactly that.

What's new

• Three ready-to-embed charts — freezes by month, by chain, and by asset — as PNGs with the source and date already on the image.
• A one-click logo download, including a single-colour version and a full brand-kit zip.
• The same "copy this quote" block you may have already seen on /stats is now also on /today and /largest-freezes, so whatever page you're reading, there's a ready citation.
• A plain-language usage license, so you don't have to email us to ask if you're allowed to use a number.

Everything on the page updates on its own — no more stale screenshots.

Every day with recorded freeze, unfreeze, or burn activity now gets an automatic report: what happened, how it compares to the 30-day average, and a link to every event. Quiet days don't get a report — we'd rather link you to today's live feed than publish a page that says nothing happened.

A monthly roundup follows on the 1st of each month, with the full trend and a breakdown by chain and asset.

What's new

• A new /reports page with a calendar — click any highlighted day to read that day's report.
• Every number in a report is a direct database query. Nothing is estimated or auto-generated.
• Each report is also posted to our Telegram channel as soon as it's live.

Reports are being reviewed by hand for the first couple of weeks before publishing runs fully unattended, so don't be surprised if some days take a little longer to appear.

Reading API docs and actually trying a call used to mean two different browser tabs and a terminal. Not anymore.

The new API Playground lets you run FreezeRadar's free public endpoints — sanctions check, blacklist check, live stats, and more — directly in your browser, with no account and no API key. If you already have a Business API key, you can paste it in to try the full screening flow too; it stays in that browser tab and is never saved anywhere.

What changed

• A live playground for every public endpoint, plus a "bring your own key" mode for the Business API.
• The developer docs now document nine endpoint groups instead of three, each with a real, copyable example that returns a genuine result.
• Every rate-limited response now tells you exactly how much of your quota is left, so you don't have to guess.

If you've been curious about what FreezeRadar's API can do, this is the fastest way to find out.

If you run a P2P trading site, an exchange help page, or a crypto blog, your visitors probably ask the same question we get every day: "is this wallet blacklisted?"

You can now answer that directly on your own site. The new FreezeRadar widget is two lines of HTML — no API key, no sign-up, no cost — and it lets any visitor check a wallet's blacklist and sanctions status without leaving your page.

What it does

• Shows a clear yes/no for issuer blacklist status and sanctions exposure.
• Works in light, dark, or automatic theme, and won't clash with your site's own styling.
• Links back to a full FreezeRadar report for anyone who wants more detail.

It's deliberately simple by design — a marketing tool, not a replacement for a full scan. Grab the install snippet on the widget page.

If your USDT wallet just got frozen, the last thing you need is to read the explanation in a language that isn't yours.

Our guide on what a frozen USDT wallet means and what to check first was previously available in English, Chinese, and Hindi. It's now also available in Russian, Spanish, and Turkish, with the same checklist: why it happened, what to preserve as evidence, and how to check risk before your next transfer.

What changed

• The guide now covers English, Chinese, Hindi, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
• Every version links to the others, so you can switch languages without losing your place.
• Search engines are told which version belongs to which language and region.

More guides and more languages are on the way.

Most of the people who need to check a wallet before accepting USDT do not read English first. Until now, the whole site assumed they did.

The home page and the live freeze statistics page are now available in Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and Turkish. You will land on your own language automatically if your browser asks for one of them, and you can always go back to English — we remember whichever you pick.

What changed

• Four new languages on the pages people arrive at first, plus the main site navigation.
• Numbers and dates now follow local conventions. A Russian reader sees spaces where an American sees commas, and a Chinese reader sees 亿 instead of "billion".
• Search engines are told which language version belongs to which, so the right one shows up in the right country's results.

The scan tool itself is still English while we translate it properly — a half-translated risk report is worse than an English one. More pages and more languages follow.

Most freeze advice online is written for "stablecoins" in general. That is not much help when your USDT sits on Tron and the article you found describes Solana.

We have added a new section, Answers, with a page per question, per coin, per chain. Right now that covers USDT on Tron and USDC on Solana — how to check whether an address is blocked, who has the power to freeze it, what to do if it happens, and what the recorded numbers actually look like.

What is different about these pages

• They are specific. Freezing USDT on Tron blocks the whole wallet and Tether can destroy the balance. Freezing USDC on Solana blocks one token account and Circle cannot. Those are different situations and now they have different pages.
• The numbers are live. Every figure comes from the freeze events we record off the contracts, so nothing goes stale.
• We only publish a page when there is something real to say. A coin and chain combination with barely any recorded activity does not get one.

More coins and chains follow as our recorded history grows.

We published five comparison pages — usdtbanlist, BlockSec, Bitrace, Scorechain, and Chainalysis — plus a neutral roundup at /best-usdt-blacklist-checker that scores all six tools, including us, against the same criteria.

We tried to make these actually useful rather than one-sided. Each page has a section on where the other tool is better, not just where we are. usdtbanlist, for example, has a pre-freeze early warning feature we don't have yet, and we say so directly. Every claim about a competitor is drawn from their own public site, with a review date, and we'll keep those current on a quarterly basis.

No action needed — these are already live, linked from pricing and enterprise.

Our guides used to be one flat list. They're now organized into a guided path at /academy, split into five tracks: the basics of how a stablecoin freeze works, how to check a wallet yourself, what to do if your wallet gets frozen, running a safe OTC deal, and screening practices for compliance teams.

Each track starts with an overview page and links out to the specific guides underneath it, so you can either read the whole path in order or jump straight to the one question you actually have.

Old guide links still work — they now redirect straight to the new location, so any bookmark or link you already have keeps working.

We're also working on a few new pages for gaps we found while building this out, including a step-by-step for reading a wallet's blacklist status straight from the contract, and a plain explanation of how to read a FreezeRadar risk score. Those are being reviewed before we publish them, since we don't publish this kind of guidance without a careful pass first.

No action needed — this is already live at /academy.

The glossary used to have a handful of pages. It now has more than 60, and each one is written to actually explain the term, not just define it in one line.

We organized every entry into five groups: how issuers technically freeze or blacklist tokens, the risk categories a scan can flag (mixers, sanctioned addresses, ransomware wallets, and more), the behavior patterns our scans look for, compliance terms like AML and KYC, and the plain-English questions people actually search for, like "is this wallet frozen" or "will this USDT get blocked."

Each entry has a short definition, a fuller explanation, a real example, and links to related terms, so you can go from "what does this mean" to "how does it show up in my scan" without leaving the page. The glossary index also has a search box now, so you don't have to scroll through everything to find one term.

We also started linking glossary terms automatically the first time they come up in a blog post or guide, so you get a definition one click away without us having to hand-link every article.

No action needed — this is already live at /glossary.

People kept asking reasonable questions we had no page to answer: who runs this, what exactly do you cover, and how do you decide a wallet is risky? There are now four pages for that.

About says what we do and what our coverage actually is, with the numbers pulled straight from the product rather than typed in by hand. It also has a section called "what we are not" — we do not give legal advice, we cannot reverse a freeze, and we do not recover lost funds. In a space full of people promising exactly those things, we would rather be plain about it.

Methodology walks through the three steps behind any verdict and, more importantly, where the analysis stops being reliable.

Press has copy-ready boilerplate, current freeze figures, a quotable line, and logo files for light and dark backgrounds.

Enterprise is for exchanges, OTC desks, payment processors, and compliance teams who need this in their own flow.

All four are linked from the footer, and scan results now link straight to the methodology.

Every scan ends with a number between 0 and 100, and until now we never explained where that number comes from. That felt wrong for something people use to decide whether to accept money.

There is now a methodology page that lays it out. It covers the four things we score — sanctions, counterparties, behaviour, and how freezeable the balance is — and how much each one counts toward the total. It publishes the exact score bands, so you can finally answer "what does 75 actually mean?" without guessing.

What this means for you

• Each band comes with plain guidance: what it means and what to do about it.
• The confidence score is explained as its own number. High risk with low confidence is a different situation from high risk with high confidence.
• We say out loud what the score cannot tell you, including that a high score is not proof of a crime and none of it is legal advice.
• There is a changelog of every change to the model, so if a rescan returns a different number than last month, you can see why.

Every scan result now links straight to it from the "why this score" panel.

Deep scan has always traced where a wallet's balance came from, hop by hop. Until now you read that as a list. Now you can look at it.

Every deep scan on a Pro plan or higher includes a provenance flow graph: every traced address laid out by how many hops it is from the wallet, connected by lines whose thickness shows how much of the balance moved through them. Sanctioned and high-risk addresses are colored and marked with their own icon, so the risk is never conveyed by color alone.

What this means for you

• One glance shows whether a wallet's funding is dominated by one address or spread across many, and how far back the risky ones sit.
• Click any node to open that address in the explorer. Hover for the full address, label, and share.
• Download the graph as a PNG for a report or a compliance file — it's watermarked so it's still traceable back to FreezeRadar if it's shared onward.
• Everything in the graph is also available as a plain accessible table underneath it, for screen readers or a quick copy-paste.

No action needed — this is already live on every deep scan for eligible plans.

Deep scan traces where a wallet's current balance actually came from, hop by hop through its funding history. It used to stop at 5 hops. It now goes up to 15.

We didn't just raise the number — we changed what decides when tracing stops. Before, every path got the same fixed depth regardless of how much money was actually moving through it. Now a path keeps getting traced only as long as it still represents a meaningful share of the wallet's balance; a path that's thinned out to a fraction of a percent stops early, so the extra depth goes to the funding trail that's actually worth following instead of being spent evenly on every branch.

What this means for you

• Deep scan can now surface a sanctioned or high-risk funding source up to 15 hops back, not just 5.
• The coverage note on every deep scan now reports the depth it actually reached for that wallet, instead of a fixed number that didn't reflect what happened.
• Scan time and provider cost are guarded the same way as before — deep scan still won't run away on a highly branched wallet.

No action needed — this is already live on every deep scan.

Our explorer wallet pages already had the deepest freeze-event history of anyone in this space. They just made you dig for it. That's fixed.

Every wallet page in the explorer now leads with a plain answer, not a data dump:

• A clear status badge for each tracked asset — currently frozen, released, funds destroyed, or never frozen — right at the top.
• A lost-funds warning when a wallet is blacklisted, so you don't accidentally send an issuer-controlled asset into a wallet that can never move it again.
• Clickable risk tags — sanctioned, mixer-exposure, previously-frozen — that take you straight to an explanation of what that risk actually means.
• A "no suspicious exposure found" banner for wallets that come back clean, instead of making you infer it from a lack of red flags.
• A public PDF summary you can download and share with anyone, even if they don't have a FreezeRadar account.
• A share button and a dynamic FAQ answering the three questions people actually ask about a frozen wallet.

What this means for you

• You can tell a wallet's status in one glance instead of reading through the event log.
• The PDF is free for anyone — a quick, citable summary you can hand to a counterparty or a colleague.
• Nothing about how freeze data is collected changed — this is entirely about making what we already track easier to read.

No action needed — every explorer wallet page already looks like this.

We already traced every counterparty a wallet touched, but you had to read through a long address list to make sense of it. Now every scan includes a Source of funds section that does that work for you.

It groups counterparties by name — Binance, Tornado Cash, whatever we can identify — and shows what share of the wallet's inbound and outbound volume each one accounts for. If a big chunk of the money can't be attributed to a known entity, we label it Unlabeled and show the real percentage instead of hiding it behind a vague "other" bucket.

What this means for you

• A quick read of who a wallet's money is really coming from and going to, without digging through a raw transfer list.
• Inbound and outbound are shown separately, since receiving from a risky address is not the same risk as sending to one.
• The top entries are visible on the free plan; the full breakdown is included in scan exports (CSV, JSON, and PDF) on paid plans.

No action needed — this is already live on every new scan.

We've had three ways to protect a payment for a while, but they weren't easy to find or tell apart. Now they have names and a proper home under Protection in the main menu:

• Deposit Guard — check an incoming payment before you release goods, fiat, or mark an order paid.
• Send Guard — screen a wallet before you send funds to it. This is the wallet scan you already know, just named for what it's for.
• Treasury Radar — get alerted if a wallet that paid you in the past later turns up sanctioned or blacklisted.

What this means for you

• All three are now one click away from anywhere on the site, instead of hidden behind a profile menu.
• Deposit Guard has a faster path for OTC deals: enter the wallet and the amount you expect, and it resolves the matching transfer and gives you a decisive verdict automatically.
• Deposit Guard results can now be copied as a link, so you can hand a verdict to a teammate without them re-running the check.

We also published a step-by-step checklist for using all three together on an OTC trade.

FreezeRadar has grown a lot of pages — statistics, the live event feed, daily archives, contract references, the sanctions database, guides, and the wallet explorer. It was easy to land on one of them from a search result and not immediately know where it sat in the site.

Every page now starts with a small trail at the top: Home, then the section, then the page you're on. Each step is clickable, so going back up a level takes one click instead of hunting through the menu.

What this means for you

• You can always see where you are, especially when you arrive from a search result or a shared link.
• Getting back to the parent section — the event feed, the contract directory, the glossary — is one click.
• Search engines can now show that same trail under our results, so links to FreezeRadar are easier to recognize before you click them.

Nothing to set up — the trails are already live across the site.

Our new contract directory answers a question nobody had fully answered before: which stablecoins can actually be frozen? Every freezeable asset we track — USDT, USDC, PAXG, XAUt, PYUSD, and more, across every chain we support — now has its own reference page.

Each page shows the official contract address, the exact freeze, unfreeze, and (where it exists) burn function names, and step-by-step instructions to check the current status yourself, directly on the contract, for free. We only publish function names we've independently verified against the actual deployed contract — for the handful of issuers where we haven't confirmed the exact mechanism yet, the page says so plainly instead of guessing.

Every page also shows live stats pulled straight from our own freeze-event archive: how many freezes we've recorded for that specific contract, the total value involved, and the most recent one, with links to the full event history.

What this means for you

• See the verified contract address and freeze function names for any stablecoin we track, in one place.
• Check a contract's frozen status yourself, with a short code sample for EVM chains, TRON, and Solana.
• Browse /contracts for the full list of which stablecoins can and can't be frozen.

No action needed — these pages are already live and linked from the explorer, the largest-freezes leaderboard, and the relevant guides.

Our new sanctions database covers every cryptocurrency address published by five official sources: the OFAC SDN list, the UK Sanctions List, the UN Consolidated List, EU Financial Sanctions, and NBCTF. That's more official sources than any tracker we've reviewed.

A quick check on the page lets you paste any wallet address and get an instant yes-or-no answer against every list we track — no sign-up needed. Every listed entity also gets its own page with its name, known aliases, source, and every address linked to it.

What this means for you

• Check a wallet against five sanctions lists at once, for free.
• Each entity page cites its exact official source and the date we last confirmed it.
• Every page links back to the official source, and to a full risk scan.

This is a republication of public government data only — we don't add or infer anything beyond what each official list publishes. Always verify against the official source before making a compliance decision.

Until now, a freeze event only existed as a row in a table. Now every recorded freeze, release, and burn transaction has its own page: the amount, the wallet, the exact time, and — this is the part other trackers don't do — what happened to that wallet afterward.

If a wallet was frozen and later released, the freeze page links straight to the release page, and back. If several notable freezes happened the same day, the page shows those too.

What this means for you

• Share a direct link to one specific freeze instead of a whole feed.
• See a wallet's full before-and-after story from a single event page.
• A short plain-language note on why the wallet was frozen, when we know it.

No action needed — these pages are already live and linked from the explorer, the live event feed, the largest freezes leaderboard, and the daily archive.

Our new largest freezes page ranks the biggest issuer freeze events FreezeRadar has ever recorded, largest first — and three rankings other trackers don't have: the biggest releases, the biggest permanently burned amounts, and the newest large freezes.

Every wallet on the list shows its current status — still frozen, released, or burned — so a wallet that made the list as a huge freeze but was later unfrozen shows that clearly instead of looking permanently frozen.

What this means for you

• Filter any ranking by chain or asset to find exactly what you're looking for.
• Click any wallet to jump straight to its full freeze history in the explorer.
• Top entries include a short plain-language note on why the wallet was frozen, when we know it.

No action needed — the leaderboard updates automatically as new freeze data comes in.

Our public stats page had a data quality issue: some wallets that showed a zero balance the moment we recorded them were still being counted as "frozen." A handful of PAXG and USDT wallets showed up this way, inflating totals that weren't real.

That's fixed. The stats page, the /api/stats endpoint, and the wallet explorer now share one consistent rule for what counts as a real freeze event, so the numbers agree everywhere you see them.

What else changed

• The 12-month trend chart now always shows a full year, including quiet months with zero activity, instead of silently dropping them.
• Chains where our data sync is behind or has never completed now show a clear "Coverage incomplete" note next to their numbers, so a $0 total isn't mistaken for "no freezes happened here."

No action needed on your end — these numbers are already live.

Sometimes you just want to know what happened today, not scroll through a long running feed to find it.

Our new today page gives you a quick plain-language summary — how many wallets were frozen, released, or had funds destroyed today, and how much value was affected — followed by the full list of today's events. If nothing has happened yet, it tells you that too, with a link to the last day that did have activity.

What this means for you

• A one-glance summary of today's freeze, unfreeze, and burn activity, refreshed every few minutes.
• A daily archive at /today/[date] so you can look back at any past day.
• Quick links from there to the live events feed, full statistics, and a wallet scan.

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.

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.