2020

Month by month

Wallets frozen per calendar month, UTC.

By issuer and chain

Tap a coin to see every freeze of it in the live tracker.

Largest freezes of 2020

A frozen wallet at the balance it holds, as read from the contract; a destroyed one at what Tether's DestroyedBlackFunds event recorded. Tap a wallet to check it, or the date for the proof.

Early freezes, 2017–2019

Tether's first recorded freeze was on 28 Nov 2017. Before 2020 there were 16, all listed here, oldest first. 7 entries are not wallets — the zero address, placeholder addresses or a token contract — and are marked as such. Tap a wallet to check it, or the date for the freeze transaction.

Every year

Wallets frozen per calendar year since the first freeze in November 2017. Years before 2020 had only a handful of freezes each; their rows open the early freezes, listed on the 2020 page.

How this is counted

• A freeze is a wallet blacklisted on the Tether (USDT) or Circle (USDC) contract during the year, counted once per wallet and coin: a wallet frozen by both Tether and Circle is two freezes, one under each issuer. A freeze re-issued on a wallet that was already frozen is not counted again; a wallet released and frozen again is.
• A wallet whose freeze Tether re-issued within the year is counted here once, in the month of the later freeze. The daily and monthly reports count a re-issued freeze on neither day, so a month's own report can show a few wallets fewer than its bar here.
• “Still frozen” is the balance each wallet holds today, read from the token contract. A frozen wallet keeps its balance but cannot move it. Wallets not yet read are left out of the total, never estimated.
• “Destroyed” and “released” count what happened during the year, to wallets frozen in any year.
• Our record of Tether's freeze proposals begins on 1 May 2026, so this page carries no warning figures.