How Crypto Assets Get Frozen: Exchanges, Stablecoin Blacklists, and Police Seizures Explained

Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. The most famous promise in the crypto world is simple: once your money is in your own wallet, nobody can touch it. You might have heard the popular slogan “not your keys, not your coins.” The idea is that traditional banks can freeze your account, block your card, or reject your transfers, but a decentralized blockchain answers to no one. Every year, billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency get locked, blacklisted, or seized by law enforcement and private companies.