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FreezeCheck research: USDT on TRON, measured from the chain
We read every USDT TRC-20 transfer on TRON, not a sample, and publish what the data shows. Each study has its method and a CSV you can reuse under CC BY 4.0, citing FreezeCheck.
Tether unfroze 731 TRON addresses and burned $318.6M
A year of RemovedBlackList and DestroyedBlackFunds events of the USDT contract on TRON. 731 unfreezes, 447 of them in 26 minutes on the evening of 14 May 2026, all frozen between 25 March and 2 April. Median time frozen before release: 44 days. 553 burns of frozen balances destroyed 318.6M USDT; 82 burns of 1M or more make up 71% of it. Published 9 November 2026. CSV of all unfreezes and burns · на русском
Tether freezes on TRON are visible before they happen
Every USDT freeze on TRON is first proposed on-chain in a 2-of-3 multisig, with the target address readable, and executes only with the second signature. 4,199 freezes from November 2025 to November 2026: median window 9.7 minutes, 30% over an hour, the longest 167 hours. 65.4M USDT left targeted addresses inside the window, 2.3 times more than in an equal interval before. 104M USDT was sent to addresses after they were frozen. Published 9 November 2026. CSV of all freezes · на русском
Who Tether freezes on TRON, and who it doesn't
Six groups of dirty addresses compared with Tether's USDT blacklist on 8 November 2026. All 355 US, UK and EU sanctioned addresses are frozen, some before the designation was published. Poisoning factories: 0 of 17. Approval drainers: 0 of 369 (8,337 victims). Fraud-verdict addresses: 2 of 642. Unfrozen addresses still hold 1.25M USDT. Published 8 November 2026. CSV of unfrozen addresses · на русском
Address poisoning on TRON: 2.17 million look-alikes in a year
55 weeks of the full transfer stream, 8 October 2025 to 28 October 2026. 2,172,676 unique look-alike addresses sent more than 5 million lure transfers. The peak was the week ending 17 December 2025 with 130,013 new fakes; 17 "factories" activated them in bulk. Published 6 November 2026. CSV by week · на русском
Unnamed exchanges on TRON: $2 billion in USDT a week
One week, 28 October to 4 November 2026. 534 hot wallets that collect money from deposit addresses took 1.97 billion USDT from 260,047 deposits, and none of them has a name in open labels. Together they received more than Bybit. Published 7 November 2026. CSV of 534 wallets · на русском
How we work
Transfers come from SQD Portal (the full TRON log stream) and TronGrid; labels come from FreezeCheck's own base of 65 million TRON addresses: exchanges and their deposit addresses, Tether freezes, sanctions lists, scam and look-alike addresses. Each study states its window, filters and limits. For data requests or a quote, see the press page or write to hello@freezecheck.org.