MEMODU ยท GUIDE
How it works
memodu reads the public TRON ledger and follows USDT from one address to the next. No sign up, no wallet connection, no keys.
What you can do
Trace funds
Paste a wallet address or a transaction hash. memodu follows the money forward for up to six steps and shows where it stopped: at an exchange, on a wallet where it still sits, or beyond the search depth.
Connect two wallets
Enter two addresses. memodu looks for a chain of USDT transfers that links them and tells you how strong that link is.
Ask about a wallet
Ask in plain English or Russian: is it frozen, what is the balance, where did it send money, what kind of address is it.
How to read a trace
| You see | What it means |
|---|---|
| Reached services | The money arrived at an exchange, an exchanger or a payment service. Funds of many customers mix there, so the public trail ends. Named services come from wallets that exchanges publish themselves. Unnamed ones are recognised by behaviour: dozens of different senders and recipients. |
| Deposit address (likely) | A wallet that forwards almost everything it sends straight to one exchange. That is how personal deposit addresses behave. It is the most useful lead in a trace, because the exchange knows which customer account the deposit address belongs to. |
| Pass-through wallet | A wallet that forwarded the money within an hour of receiving it. Quick relays are a common way to put distance between sender and destination. |
| Still on wallets | The part of the traced amount that has not moved on. It may move later, so a trace run tomorrow can look different. |
| Flagged | The address is on the Tether freeze list or on the OFAC sanctions list. See the list check section below. |
The method: first in, first out
An address usually holds money from many sources. To decide which outgoing transfer carries the amount you are tracing, memodu uses the same rule accountants and courts often use: first in, first out. The traced amount leaves with the first outgoing transfers made after it arrived.
Example. A wallet receives your 1,000 USDT at 10:00. At 10:10 it sends 600 USDT to wallet B, and at 10:15 it sends 390 USDT to an exchange. memodu attributes 600 to B, 390 to the exchange, and reports 10 USDT as still on the wallet.
Flows smaller than 2% of the traced amount are grouped and not followed, so the map stays readable.
List check
Every address on a trace is compared with two public lists.
- Tether freeze list. Tether can blacklist an address, after which the USDT on it cannot be moved. Every freeze and unfreeze is recorded on the blockchain by the USDT contract. memodu rebuilds the list from those records and refreshes it every few hours. The address you enter is also checked directly against the contract at the moment of your request.
- OFAC sanctions list. The US Treasury publishes digital currency addresses that belong to sanctioned persons and entities. memodu carries the TRON addresses from that list.
A flag is a list match, not a verdict. It says that an address is on a list. It does not say anything about the person who sent money to it or received money from it. And the absence of a flag does not prove that funds are clean.
If your USDT was stolen
- Save the transaction hashes of every transfer you made to the scammer. They are your evidence.
- Trace each one and note which service the money reached, and the deposit address if one is shown.
- Write to that service. Contact its support or compliance team, give the transaction hashes, and ask them to restrict the receiving account. Speed matters: once the money is withdrawn from the exchange, this lead is gone.
- File a police report. Exchanges disclose account details and freeze funds on a request from law enforcement, not from individuals.
- Ignore recovery offers. Anyone who promises to return your crypto for an upfront fee, or asks for your seed phrase, is running a second scam.
memodu never asks for your keys, your seed phrase, a wallet connection or a payment to release funds. If someone does that in our name, it is not us.
Limits you should know
- Only USDT on TRON is followed. If the money was swapped to TRX or another token, or bridged to another network, the trace shows it as stopped.
- For each address memodu reads its most recent 200 transfers in each direction. Very busy addresses are therefore treated as services.
- Service labels by behaviour are estimates. Named labels cover the wallets that exchanges publish, not every wallet they use.
- memodu identifies addresses, never people.
Questions
Is memodu free?
Yes. During the beta the site and the API are free within fair use limits: 12 traces and 60 lighter requests per 10 minutes.
Can memodu get my money back?
No. Nobody can reverse a blockchain transfer. memodu shows where the USDT went and which service received it, so that you can contact that service and the police with exact transaction hashes.
Why does the trail stop at an exchange?
Inside an exchange all customer funds are kept together. The public ledger shows the deposit arriving, but only the exchange knows which account was credited and what happened next.
Does a trace prove who owns a wallet?
No. memodu works with addresses, not people. It can show that an address behaves like an exchange deposit address or a busy service, but identity is known only to the service involved and is disclosed only to law enforcement.
What does frozen by Tether mean?
Tether, the company that issues USDT, can blacklist an address. USDT on a blacklisted address cannot be sent anywhere by its holder. Tether usually does this at the request of law enforcement.
If the list check finds nothing, is the wallet clean?
Not necessarily. The check covers two public lists: the Tether freeze list and the OFAC sanctions list. No match means only that the address is not on those lists today.
Do you store the addresses I search?
No. There are no accounts, no cookies and no analytics. Results are kept in memory for up to 10 minutes to avoid reading the same data twice, and then dropped.
Which networks and tokens are supported?
USDT (TRC20) on TRON only. Transfers of TRX, other tokens, or USDT on other networks such as Ethereum, Solana or TON are not followed yet.