The numbers

Blacklist

Method: distinct addresses with an AddedBlackList, Burned or RemovedBlackList event on the Tether or Circle contracts, TRON and Ethereum, from 2017-11-28 to 2026-10-17.

Addresses blacklisted

12,627

Funds destroyed

2,326

Released

1,369

Events, all time

17,063

Counted by distinct address, not by event — a wallet can appear several times. “Funds destroyed” means Tether burned the balance and reissued it elsewhere, which is final. “Released” means the flag was later removed.

By chain

Method: the same event set, split by the contract that emitted it. As of 2026-10-17.

TRON

8,935

Ethereum

3,693

Last 30 days

637

Records begin

2017-11-28

Filter all of it by period, chain, token and event type. Or read it day by day, every wallet frozen.

Other chains

Method: freeze events on the USDC and Tether contracts of Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Polygon, Avalanche and Solana, from 2022. Counted separately and never added to the totals above. As of 2026-10-17.

Wallets frozen

2,506

Distinct addresses

609

Still held

$61,243,062

Arbitrum

521 frozen · 5 burned

Avalanche

482 frozen · 9 burned

Polygon

481 frozen · 3 burned

Base

483 frozen

Optimism

476 frozen

Solana

46 frozen

Circle freezes one address on every chain at once, which is why the wallet count is several times the number of addresses — most were also frozen on Ethereum. These chains freeze in a single step with no public proposal, so a freeze there can only be reported after it lands; early warning exists only for Tether on TRON and Ethereum. See them on the tracker (Other chains).

Sanctions

Method: crypto addresses in the U.S. Treasury OFAC SDN list, parsed from Treasury’s own XML export and refreshed daily. As of 2026-10-17.

OFAC entities

106

Designated addresses

1,050

Chains covered

14

A sanctions designation and an issuer freeze are different things — browse the entities.

How much warning there is

Method: for each wallet, the gap between the first freeze proposal we observed on-chain and the confirmed freeze, over 2,021 TRON wallets. Pairs more than 24 hours apart are excluded as re-designations. As of 2026-10-17.

Median window (TRON)

8 minutes

Frozen within a minute

24%

Wallets measured

2,021

Measured from our own detection log against confirmed on-chain freezes. On TRON a freeze needs two signatures and the first is public; that gap is the only warning anyone gets, and a median is not a promise.

Freeze contagion

Method: wallets that transacted with an address before it was frozen, then measured whether and when they were frozen themselves. n = 779,678 exposed wallets, 1,349 later frozen. Population-level, not a per-wallet forecast.

Wallets studied

779,678

Later frozen

1,349

Median gap

123s

Within an hour

65%

Of the wallets that transacted with a wallet before it was frozen, this many were frozen afterwards. Freezes arrive in batches rather than spreading slowly. A population figure, not a prediction about any wallet — we do not publish those.

Citing these figures

Every number on this page is counted at build time from public on-chain events; none is estimated. If you quote one, please include the date — the counts change daily.

Suggested form: “As of 17 October 2026, OmniTrace counts 12,627 USDT and USDC addresses blacklisted on TRON and Ethereum (omnitraceapp.com/stats).”

What is not here

No dollar totals. We record which wallets were frozen and when, not the balance each held at the time of its event, so a “$ frozen” figure would be an estimate dressed as a count. Everything above is a count of things we actually hold.