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Freeze a Trust Line

This tutorial shows the steps to freeze an individual trust line. The issuer of a token in the XRP Ledger may freeze the trust line to a particular counterparty if that account is engaged in suspicious activity.

Tip: As a reminder, freezes only apply to issued tokens, not XRP.

Prerequisites

• You need a connection to the XRP Ledger network. As shown in this tutorial, you can use public servers for testing.
• You should be familiar with the Getting Started instructions for your preferred client library. This page provides examples for the following:
  • JavaScript with the xrpl.js library. See Get Started Using JavaScript for setup steps.
• This tutorial assumes you have already issued a token in the XRP Ledger.
• You cannot have enabled the No Freeze setting, which gives up your ability to freeze individual trust lines.

Example Code

Complete sample code for all of the steps of this tutorial is available under the MIT license.

• See Code Samples: Freeze in the source repository for this website.

Steps

{% set n = cycler(* range(1,99)) %}

{{n.next()}}. Get Credentials

To transact on the XRP Ledger, you need an address and secret key, and some XRP. If you use the best practice of having separate "cold" and "hot" addresses, you need the keys to the cold address, which is the issuer of the token.

{{n.next()}}. Connect to the Network

You must be connected to the network to submit transactions to it. The following code shows how to connect to a public XRP Ledger Testnet server a supported client library:

JavaScript

{{ include_code("_code-samples/get-started/js/base.js", language="js") }}

WebSocket

(Connect to wss:// URL of an XRP Ledger server using your preferred client.)

{{n.next()}}. Send TrustSet Transaction to Freeze the Trust Line

To enable or disable an Individual Freeze on a specific trust line, send a [TrustSet transaction][] with the tfSetFreeze flag enabled. The fields of the transaction should be as follows:

Field	Value	Description
Account	String	Your issuing account's address.
TransactionType	String	TrustSet
LimitAmount	Object	Object defining the trust line to freeze.
LimitAmount.currency	String	Currency of the trust line (cannot be XRP)
LimitAmount.issuer	String	The XRP Ledger address of the counterparty to freeze
LimitAmount.value	String	The amount of currency you trust this counterparty to issue to you, as a quoted number. As an issuer, this is typically "0".
Flags	Number	To enable a freeze, turn on the tfSetFreeze bit (0x00100000).

As always, to send a transaction, you prepare it by filling in all the necessary fields, sign it with your cryptographic keys, and submit it to the network. For example:

JavaScript

{{ include_code("_code-samples/freeze/set-individual-freeze.js", language="js", start_with="// Prepare a TrustSet", end_before="// Investigate") }}

WebSocket

{
  "id": "example_freeze_individual_line",
  "command": "submit",
  "tx_json": {
    "TransactionType": "TrustSet",
    "Account": "rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn",
    "Fee": "12",
    "Flags": 1048576,
    "LastLedgerSequence": 18103014,
    "LimitAmount": {
      "currency": "USD",
      "issuer": "rsA2LpzuawewSBQXkiju3YQTMzW13pAAdW",
      "value": "0"
    },
    "Sequence": 340
  },
  "secret": "s████████████████████████████"
}

{{n.next()}}. Wait for Validation

Most transactions are accepted into the next ledger version after they're submitted, which means it may take 4-7 seconds for a transaction's outcome to be final. If the XRP Ledger is busy or poor network connectivity delays a transaction from being relayed throughout the network, a transaction may take longer to be confirmed. (For information on how to set an expiration for transactions, see Reliable Transaction Submission.)

{{n.next()}}. Check Trust Line Freeze Status

At this point, the trust line from the counterparty should be frozen. You can check the freeze status of any trust line using the [account_lines method][] with the following fields:

Field	Value	Description
account	String	Your address. (In this case, the issuing address.)
peer	String	The address of the counterparty.

Caution: The response includes all trust lines between the two accounts. (Each different currency code uses a different trust line.) Be sure to check the one for the right token.

In the response, the field "freeze": true indicates that the account from the request has enabled an Individual Freeze on that trust line. The field "freeze_peer": true indicates that the counterparty (peer) from the request has frozen the trust line.

JavaScript

{{ include_code("_code-samples/freeze/check-individual-freeze.js", language="js", start_with="// Look up current state", end_before="await client.disconnect()") }}

WebSocket

Example Request:

{
  "id": "example_check_individual_freeze",
  "command": "account_lines",
  "account": "rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn",
  "ledger": "validated",
  "peer": "rsA2LpzuawewSBQXkiju3YQTMzW13pAAdW"
}

Example Response:

{
  "id": "example_check_individual_freeze",
  "status": "success",
  "type": "response",
  "result": {
    "account": "rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn",
    "lines": [
      {
        "account": "rsA2LpzuawewSBQXkiju3YQTMzW13pAAdW",
        "balance": "10",
        "currency": "USD",
        "freeze": true,
        "limit": "0",
        "limit_peer": "110",
        "quality_in": 0,
        "quality_out": 0
      }
    ]
  }
}

{{n.next()}}. (Optional) Send TrustSet Transaction to End the Freeze

If you decide that the trust line no longer needs to be frozen (for example, you investigated and decided that the suspicious activity was benign), you can end the individual freeze in almost the same way that you froze the trust line in the first place. To end an individual freeze, send a [TrustSet transaction][] with the tfClearFreeze flag enabled. The other fields of the transaction should be the same as when you froze the trust line:

Field	Value	Description
Account	String	Your issuing account's address.
TransactionType	String	TrustSet
LimitAmount	Object	Object defining the trust line to unfreeze.
LimitAmount.currency	String	Currency of the trust line (cannot be XRP)
LimitAmount.issuer	String	The XRP Ledger address of the counterparty to unfreeze
LimitAmount.value	String	The amount of currency you trust this counterparty to issue to you, as a quoted number. As an issuer, this is typically "0".
Flags	Number	To end an individual freeze, turn on the tfClearFreeze bit (0x00200000)

As always, to send a transaction, you prepare it by filling in all the necessary fields, sign it with your cryptographic keys, and submit it to the network. For example:

JavaScript

{{ include_code("_code-samples/freeze/set-individual-freeze.js", language="js", start_with="// Clear the individual", end_before="// End main") }}

WebSocket

{
  "id": "example_end_individual_freeze",
  "command": "submit",
  "tx_json": {
    "TransactionType": "TrustSet",
    "Account": "rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn",
    "Fee": "12",
    "Flags": 2097152,
    "LastLedgerSequence": 18105115,
    "LimitAmount": {
      "currency": "USD",
      "issuer": "rsA2LpzuawewSBQXkiju3YQTMzW13pAAdW",
      "value": "0"
    },
    "Sequence": 341
  },
  "secret": "s████████████████████████████"
}

{{n.next()}}. Wait for Validation

As before, wait for the previous transaction to be validated by consensus before continuing.

See Also

• Concepts:
  • Freezing Issued Currencies
  • Trust Lines and Issuing
• Tutorials:
  • Enable No Freeze
  • Enact Global Freeze
  • Change or Remove a Regular Key Pair
• References:
  • [account_lines method][]
  • [account_info method][]
  • [AccountSet transaction][]
  • [TrustSet transaction][]
  • AccountRoot Flags
  • RippleState (trust line) Flags

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