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It started with a research rabbit hole. Digging into how stablecoins actually work — not the marketing pitch, but the smart contract code — it quickly became clear that USDC and USDT are far more centralised than most people realise. Both tokens have freeze functions baked into their contracts from day one. The issuer can blacklist any address in a single transaction. They can then destroy the balance entirely. No court order required on their end. No notification to the holder. No appeal process written into the protocol.

What made it more concerning was the false positive rate. Looking at the on-chain data, it's not just hackers and sanctioned entities getting frozen. There are ordinary addresses — wallets that touched a flagged service a step or two removed, addresses caught in automated compliance sweeps, businesses frozen while a legal matter plays out. People who had no idea this was even possible, suddenly unable to move their money.

There was no simple, public place to check whether an address was on a blacklist. No dashboard showing the full history of freezes. No way to see the scale of it. That seemed like a gap worth filling. So Freeze.Watch was built — an independent tracker that makes this data searchable, visualised, and open to anyone.