Yearly freeze report · to 29 October, updated daily
2026
4,692 wallets frozen · so far
- Wallets frozen
- 4,692
- Still frozen
- $4.68B
- Flagged before the lock
- 2,407
- Destroyed · released
- 535 · 886
4,332 in all of 2025
held in 3,762 wallets, as last read
since 1 May, median 11m early
$402.66M destroyed in 2026
In 2026 (to 29 October), Tether and Circle froze 4,692 wallets: 3,731 USDT on TRON, 529 USDT on Ethereum and 432 USDC on Ethereum.
The busiest month was March, with 985 wallets frozen. In all of 2025 it was 4,332.
The wallets frozen in 2026 that are still frozen hold $4.68B as last read. Tether destroyed the balances of 535 frozen wallets ($402.66M) and 886 were released during 2026.
Since 1 May 2026, where OmniTrace's record of Tether freeze proposals begins, it flagged 2,407 freezes as pending proposals before they executed, a median 11m before the funds locked.
Month by month
Wallets frozen per calendar month, UTC. A month with its own report opens when you tap it.
By issuer and chain
| Coin | Wallets | 2025 | Still locked | Flagged first |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USDT · TRON | 3,731 | 3,506 | $2.53B | 2,185 |
| USDT · Ethereum | 529 | 657 | $1.31B | 222 |
| USDC · Ethereum | 432 | 169 | $846.48M | one-step freeze |
Tap a coin to see every freeze of it in the live tracker.
Largest freezes of 2026
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.
| Wallet | Chain | Amount | Frozen |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0x5227f603C1eE34CE3C06eFe6477003BDfCCB2f8c | Ethereum USDT | $971.15M | 29 Oct |
| 0x5227f603C1eE34CE3C06eFe6477003BDfCCB2f8c | Ethereum USDC | $823.00M | 29 Oct |
| TG5iBMQPrDzJJAUM8GMVBf1hRaJ1wvzsGi | TRON USDT | $312.73M | 29 Oct |
| TNiq9AXBp9EjUqhDhrwrfvAA8U3GUQZH81 | TRON USDT | $212.92M | 23 Apr |
| 0xAa246BF639586a6Ba46762D378CE50cA4fc654a0 | Ethereum USDT | $175.00M | 29 Oct |
| TTiDLWE6fZK8okMJv6ijg42yrH6W2pjSr9 | TRON USDT | $131.29M | 23 Apr |
| TFQbqaNbmq2xsVor2NbufLkYZvxFC9wC7k | TRON USDT | $85.53M | 14 Jul |
| TXNYeYdao7JL7wBtmzbk7mAie7UZsdgVjx | TRON USDT | $83.77M | 10 Feb |
| TBzrPEsStbZAUx2SBhD4oHz8UW3FX9Ak9W | TRON USDT | $72.03M | 12 Jun |
| TCzBTkqn66yApqbYoPezaEQosM5DAd7Y62 | TRON USDT | $65.99M | 29 Oct |
Monthly reports
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.
| Year | Wallets | USDT · TRON | USDT · Ethereum | USDC · Ethereum | Destroyed | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4,692 | 3,731 | 529 | 432 | 535 | 886 |
| 2025 | 4,332 | 3,506 | 657 | 169 | 695 | 477 |
| 2024 | 2,030 | 1,223 | 754 | 53 | 279 | 89 |
| 2023 | 766 | 270 | 437 | 59 | 99 | 25 |
| 2022 | 686 | 310 | 250 | 126 | 422 | 16 |
| 2021 | 353 | 21 | 308 | 24 | 198 | 31 |
| 2020 | 246 | 13 | 232 | 1 | 107 | 7 |
| 2019 | 7 | — | 7 | — | 6 | 0 |
| 2018 | 8 | — | 8 | — | 5 | 0 |
| 2017 | 1 | — | 1 | — | 0 | 1 |
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.
- Warning figures start on 1 May 2026, where OmniTrace's record of Tether's freeze proposals begins. USDC has no proposal step, so it can never be flagged in advance.
Citing these figures
Counted from on-chain events on the Tether and Circle contracts, TRON and Ethereum, 2026 to 29 October, UTC. Please cite as “OmniTrace, 2026 USDT & USDC freeze report, omnitraceapp.com/reports/2026”.
Generated 30 October 2026, 02:03 UTC.