get_address_risk
Unified risk tier for one address on one chain — unknown|none|low|medium|high|severe — from decoded facts (OFAC listing, issuer freeze/seize on this chain, exposure to a sanctioned or hack root) and attributed labels with provenance (labels alone cap at medium; a lone-source accusation adds no tier). Use it for one go/no-go read before accepting or sending funds. Not for freeze proposals, frozen balances or a freeze on another chain (frozen_elsewhere): get_address_compliance. Not for taint hops or the haircut: get_address_exposure. Not for open allowances: get_address_approvals. 'unknown' means the check did not finish, never 'checked clean'; evidence and incomplete_reasons name the cause (e.g. time_budget: the exposure walk was cut, a quieter moment may complete it). The freeze input is this chain's per-token status alone: frozen/seized argues for high (not a row with own_token_contract: the issuer's act on its own token contract), and an 'unknown' status or a pair whose freeze history is not backfilled turns a would-be 'none' into 'unknown' — so a Solana tier, where every freeze pair is unknown, is never 'none'. The exposure walk behind the tier is fixed at 3 hops; pick depth and window with get_wallet_graph_walk. A verdict is reused for up to 60 s (10 s after a time_budget cut). Heavy read: under load it answers busy or timeout — retry with backoff. No auth; 1200 requests/min shared by all tools. Not an identity, AML or legal determination.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| chain | No | Chain, in any of four spellings: the id (8453 Base — default for 0x addresses; a T… address defaults to Tron and a base58 one to Solana, 1 Ethereum, 10 Optimism, 42161 Arbitrum, 56 BNB Chain, 728126428 Tron, -1 Solana), the same id as a string, the network slug (base, ethereum, optimism, arbitrum, bnb-chain, tron, solana) or its CAIP-2 id (eip155:1, solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp). Surrounding whitespace, a leading + and leading zeros are ignored, a JSON number counts by its value (1.0 is 1), slugs and CAIP-2 ids match in any letter case, and an empty, blank or null chain is no chain at all. Anything else (hex, a decimal fraction, a zero-padded CAIP-2 reference) is refused, and so is a network this scanner knows but does not index — by name, never with an empty clean verdict. The answer is about ONE chain: chain_id says which, chain_source says how it was chosen (explicit|default|address_form) and chains_with_data lists where else this address has data — read it before concluding, then ask again with chain set | |
| address | Yes | The address to check. The address in its network's own spelling: 0x… for EVM chains, T… for Tron, base58 for Solana. The answer writes it in the spelling of chain_id (address) and echoes what you sent (requested_address); address_respelled true means your spelling belongs to another kind of chain than chain_id (a T… address asked about an EVM chain, a 0x… address asked about Tron) — answered about the same bytes there, not refused, and the same owner only for a plain key account. |