A Polygon check screens a 0x address against sanctions designations, scam and drainer clusters, mixer and bridge trails, stolen-funds paths and high-risk venues, and reports issuer freeze status for the USDT and USDC it holds. Free in the Telegram bot, three checks a day, no signup, verdict in seconds. Polygon carries a lot of payment and payout traffic, and payouts are where a bad counterparty becomes your problem.
Open @sanctuaryapp_bot, paste the address, get the verdict in seconds. Three checks a day, free, no signup.
A Polygon check reads the account's transfers and the counterparties behind them: sanctions designations, scam and rug-pull proceeds, drainer and phishing infrastructure, mixing services, bridge and cross-chain trails, stolen funds from named incidents, no-KYC venues and mule networks. For the stablecoins on this network — USDT and USDC — it also reports whether the address sits on an issuer freeze list.
The verdict is CLEAN, LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH or CRITICAL with a recommendation of Proceed, Caution, Review or Reject and the decision drivers named in plain words. Bridge traffic is heavy here, so the reason line usually matters more than the headline: value that arrived over a bridge carries its history with it, and the result says where that history came from.
Sanctions are checked against the public record — OFAC's definitions in FAQ 559 and the blocking obligation on its virtual currency FAQ topic page.
Polygon is EVM-compatible: 0x plus 40 hexadecimal characters, with the EIP-55 checksum carried in the capitalisation. An example: 0x5aAeb6053F3E94C9b9A09f33669435E7Ef1BeAed. There is no memo or tag.
The same string is a valid address on Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Arbitrum and Base, and the histories are separate — a clean result on Ethereum says nothing about Polygon. Beyond that, Polygon has its own well-known deposit trap: native USDC issued by Circle and bridged USDC are two different tokens with two different contracts. Exchanges usually credit only one. Sending the wrong variant to a deposit address produces an unsupported-token support ticket rather than a balance.
POL, the network's own token, has no issuer that can freeze it. The stablecoins do. Circle's USDC terms reserve the right to block USDC addresses and to block "the transfer of USDC to and from an address on chain as permitted under the blocklisting policy" — circle.com/legal/usdc-terms. Tether reserves comparable powers over USDT: freezing tokens (Section 2) and blacklisting digital token addresses on suspected prohibited use (Section 8) — tether.to/en/legal.
Below the issuer sits the ordinary case — an exchange holding a deposit while it reviews the source. That is the venue's own control and the one a pre-send check is for.
| What you get | Free check in the Telegram bot | Workspace and API |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | CLEAN to CRITICAL with the reason named | the same verdict plus the counterparty breakdown |
| Bridge trails | named in the reason line | followed across the networks you screen |
| Volume | three checks a day | bulk lists, watchlists, continuous monitoring |
| Evidence | the result in the chat | a signed report you can forward |
| Cost | free, no signup | from $199/mo — see pricing |
One payout, one counterparty: the Telegram bot. A payout book that runs daily: the API plus the workspace.
Send the 0x address to the Telegram bot — three free checks a day, no signup. The verdict returns in seconds with the reason named. The lookup is read-only: no gas, no signature, no notification.
Yes, by their issuers. Circle reserves the right to block USDC addresses and on-chain transfers under its blocklisting policy; Tether reserves the right to freeze tokens and blacklist addresses under Sections 2 and 8 of its terms. The network token itself cannot be frozen this way.
No. A bridge moves value between networks and the chain of custody survives it — screening follows the trail across the bridge, and the reason line names where the value came from. What changes is the network you need to screen, not the history.
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They are different tokens: one is native USDC issued by Circle on Polygon, the other arrived through a bridge and has its own contract. Most venues credit only one of them, so check the deposit screen before sending — the wrong variant becomes a support ticket.
LOW means nothing of substance was found against the address beyond ordinary network activity, and the recommendation is Proceed. It is not a guarantee about the person behind the address — it is a statement about what the address has done and who it has dealt with.
Send any wallet to the Telegram bot and get a verdict in seconds. Three checks a day, free, no signup. Desks that screen every deposit run it on plans from $199/mo.