Does Any of This Work?
Every other page here warns you about something. This one is the counterweight: the measured scale of what authorities and issuers actually do.
The short answer
$3.93bn
frozen and still held
across 5,982 addresses
2,287
addresses seized outright
19.8% of all we track
342
court cases on record
plus 50 forfeiture notices
What those numbers are, precisely. Balances were measured between 2026-08-01 and 2026-08-08, so this is a snapshot rather than a live total. We hold a measured balance for 51.9% of the frozen addresses we know about, which means the real figure is higher than the one above, not lower. And it is heavily concentrated: the ten largest addresses alone are 21.3% of the total, so an average would tell you almost nothing.
Freezes per month
Each bar is the number of freeze events recorded in that month. This is activity by the token issuers, and it is not smooth — issuers act in batches, often following a single investigation, so a tall month is usually one large action rather than a trend.
2025-03 to 2026-08 · peak 1,169 events
What frozen and seized actually mean
Frozen means the issuer has blocked the balance at the contract level. The tokens still exist and still sit at that address; nobody can move them. It is reversible in principle, and it is the common outcome — 9,241 addresses.
Seized means the balance has been taken, usually by a court order following a forfeiture action — 2,287 addresses, or 19.8%.
Neither means the money goes back to the people it was taken from. A freeze stops the loss spreading. Return to victims requires a separate legal process, and it is slower and less certain than the freeze itself. That gap is the honest limit of what these numbers show.
Who acts, and where
| Chain | Issuer | Addresses |
|---|---|---|
| tron | tether | 8,013 |
| ethereum | tether | 3,057 |
| ethereum | circle | 756 |
Separately, 451 addresses in our record carry a sanctions designation. Sanctions reach chains that issuer freezes cannot — there is no issuer who can freeze a Bitcoin balance, so on Bitcoin the sanctions list is the only lever that exists.
What this does not tell you
- Not the size of the problem. These are the cases where somebody acted. Fraud that nobody reported, traced or froze does not appear here at all, and it is certainly the larger number.
- Not a recovery rate. Frozen is not returned. We have no reliable figure for money actually given back to victims, and we will not estimate one.
- Not the whole market. We track two issuers on two chains for freezes, plus the OFAC designations. Other stablecoins and other chains exist.
- Not a prediction. Everything here already happened. None of it tells you what an address will do tomorrow.
Why we show this at all
A site that only catalogues fraud teaches people that nothing can be done, which is both wrong and the exact belief a fraudster benefits from. Billions have been frozen. Thousands of addresses have been seized. Hundreds of cases have been brought. It is slow, it is partial, and it works often enough to be worth reporting to.
If you have lost money, that is the argument for reporting it properly even when it feels pointless. Your transaction hashes are what connect one loss to a case that already exists.