diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 7bdbb07eae5b39..2831dc3b5ee4f3 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1360,6 +1360,24 @@ The externally maintained libraries used by Node.js are:
      OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
   """
 
+- caja, located at lib/internal/freeze_intrinsics.js, is licensed as follows:
+  """
+     Adapted from SES/Caja - Copyright (C) 2011 Google Inc.
+     Copyright (C) 2018 Agoric
+
+     Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+     you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+     You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+     Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+     distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+     WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+     See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+     limitations under the License.
+  """
+
 - brotli, located at deps/brotli, is licensed as follows:
   """
     Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2013-2016 by the Brotli Authors.
diff --git a/doc/api/cli.md b/doc/api/cli.md
index 71e36a4c12b561..831b9624d1d7ae 100644
--- a/doc/api/cli.md
+++ b/doc/api/cli.md
@@ -177,6 +177,25 @@ added: v6.0.0
 Force FIPS-compliant crypto on startup. (Cannot be disabled from script code.)
 (Same requirements as `--enable-fips`.)
 
+### `--frozen-intrinsics`
+<!-- YAML
+added: REPLACEME
+-->
+
+> Stability: 1 - Experimental
+
+Enable experimental frozen intrinsics like `Array` and `Object`.
+
+Support is currently only provided for the root context and no guarantees are
+currently provided that `global.Array` is indeed the default intrinsic
+reference.
+
+**Code breakage is highly likely with this flag**, especially since limited
+support for subclassing builtins is provided currently due to ECMA-262 bug
+https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/pull/1320.
+
+Both of the above may change in future updates, which will be breaking changes.
+
 ### `--http-parser=library`
 <!-- YAML
 added: v11.4.0
@@ -671,6 +690,7 @@ Node.js options that are allowed are:
 - `--experimental-report`
 - `--experimental-vm-modules`
 - `--force-fips`
+- `--frozen-intrinsics`
 - `--icu-data-dir`
 - `--inspect`
 - `--inspect-brk`
diff --git a/doc/node.1 b/doc/node.1
index c0bdeb1bebe877..603d72d566c99c 100644
--- a/doc/node.1
+++ b/doc/node.1
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ Force FIPS-compliant crypto on startup
 Same requirements as
 .Fl -enable-fips .
 .
+.It Fl -frozen-intrinsics
+Enable experimental frozen intrinsics support.
+.
 .It Fl -http-parser Ns = Ns Ar library
 Chooses an HTTP parser library. Available values are
 .Sy llhttp
diff --git a/lib/internal/bootstrap/pre_execution.js b/lib/internal/bootstrap/pre_execution.js
index 3e64540aa32ae2..02acf6b46f6338 100644
--- a/lib/internal/bootstrap/pre_execution.js
+++ b/lib/internal/bootstrap/pre_execution.js
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ function prepareMainThreadExecution() {
   initializeClusterIPC();
 
   initializeDeprecations();
+  initializeFrozenIntrinsics();
   initializeESMLoader();
   loadPreloadModules();
 }
@@ -230,6 +231,14 @@ function initializeESMLoader() {
   }
 }
 
+function initializeFrozenIntrinsics() {
+  if (getOptionValue('--frozen-intrinsics')) {
+    process.emitWarning('The --frozen-intrinsics flag is experimental',
+                        'ExperimentalWarning');
+    require('internal/freeze_intrinsics')();
+  }
+}
+
 function loadPreloadModules() {
   // For user code, we preload modules if `-r` is passed
   const preloadModules = getOptionValue('--require');
@@ -245,6 +254,7 @@ module.exports = {
   prepareMainThreadExecution,
   initializeDeprecations,
   initializeESMLoader,
+  initializeFrozenIntrinsics,
   loadPreloadModules,
   setupTraceCategoryState,
   initializeReport
diff --git a/lib/internal/freeze_intrinsics.js b/lib/internal/freeze_intrinsics.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..effac318539270
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/internal/freeze_intrinsics.js
@@ -0,0 +1,244 @@
+// Adapted from SES/Caja - Copyright (C) 2011 Google Inc.
+// Copyright (C) 2018 Agoric
+
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+// based upon:
+// https://github.com/google/caja/blob/master/src/com/google/caja/ses/startSES.js
+// https://github.com/google/caja/blob/master/src/com/google/caja/ses/repairES5.js
+// https://github.com/tc39/proposal-frozen-realms/blob/91ac390e3451da92b5c27e354b39e52b7636a437/shim/src/deep-freeze.js
+
+/* global WebAssembly, SharedArrayBuffer, console */
+'use strict';
+module.exports = function() {
+
+  const intrinsics = [
+    // Anonymous Intrinsics
+    // ThrowTypeError
+    Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(Function.prototype, 'caller').get,
+    // IteratorPrototype
+    Object.getPrototypeOf(
+      Object.getPrototypeOf(new Array()[Symbol.iterator]())
+    ),
+    // ArrayIteratorPrototype
+    Object.getPrototypeOf(new Array()[Symbol.iterator]()),
+    // StringIteratorPrototype
+    Object.getPrototypeOf(new String()[Symbol.iterator]()),
+    // MapIteratorPrototype
+    Object.getPrototypeOf(new Map()[Symbol.iterator]()),
+    // SetIteratorPrototype
+    Object.getPrototypeOf(new Set()[Symbol.iterator]()),
+    // GeneratorFunction
+    Object.getPrototypeOf(function* () {}),
+    // AsyncFunction
+    Object.getPrototypeOf(async function() {}),
+    // AsyncGeneratorFunction
+    Object.getPrototypeOf(async function* () {}),
+    // TypedArray
+    Object.getPrototypeOf(Uint8Array),
+
+    // 18 The Global Object
+    eval,
+    isFinite,
+    isNaN,
+    parseFloat,
+    parseInt,
+    decodeURI,
+    decodeURIComponent,
+    encodeURI,
+    encodeURIComponent,
+
+    // 19 Fundamental Objects
+    Object, // 19.1
+    Function, // 19.2
+    Boolean, // 19.3
+    Symbol, // 19.4
+
+    // Disabled pending stack trace mutation handling
+    // Error, // 19.5
+    // EvalError,
+    // RangeError,
+    // ReferenceError,
+    // SyntaxError,
+    // TypeError,
+    // URIError,
+
+    // 20 Numbers and Dates
+    Number, // 20.1
+    Math, // 20.2
+    Date, // 20.3
+
+    // 21 Text Processing
+    String, // 21.1
+    RegExp, // 21.2
+
+    // 22 Indexed Collections
+    Array, // 22.1
+
+    Int8Array,
+    Uint8Array,
+    Uint8ClampedArray,
+    Int16Array,
+    Uint16Array,
+    Int32Array,
+    Uint32Array,
+    Float32Array,
+    Float64Array,
+    BigInt64Array,
+    BigUint64Array,
+
+    // 23 Keyed Collections
+    Map, // 23.1
+    Set, // 23.2
+    WeakMap, // 23.3
+    WeakSet, // 23.4
+
+    // 24 Structured Data
+    ArrayBuffer, // 24.1
+    DataView, // 24.3
+    JSON, // 24.5
+    Promise, // 25.4
+
+    // 26 Reflection
+    Reflect, // 26.1
+    Proxy, // 26.2
+
+    // B.2.1
+    escape,
+    unescape,
+
+    // Web compatibility
+    clearImmediate,
+    clearInterval,
+    clearTimeout,
+    decodeURI,
+    decodeURIComponent,
+    encodeURI,
+    encodeURIComponent,
+    setImmediate,
+    setInterval,
+    setTimeout,
+
+    // Other APIs
+    console,
+    BigInt,
+    Atomics,
+    WebAssembly,
+    SharedArrayBuffer
+  ];
+
+  if (typeof Intl !== 'undefined')
+    intrinsics.push(Intl);
+
+  intrinsics.forEach(deepFreeze);
+
+  function deepFreeze(root) {
+
+    const { freeze, getOwnPropertyDescriptors, getPrototypeOf } = Object;
+    const { ownKeys } = Reflect;
+
+    // Objects that are deeply frozen.
+    // It turns out that Error is reachable from WebAssembly so it is
+    // explicitly added here to ensure it is not frozen
+    const frozenSet = new WeakSet([Error, Error.prototype]);
+
+    /**
+     * "innerDeepFreeze()" acts like "Object.freeze()", except that:
+     *
+     * To deepFreeze an object is to freeze it and all objects transitively
+     * reachable from it via transitive reflective property and prototype
+     * traversal.
+     */
+    function innerDeepFreeze(node) {
+      // Objects that we have frozen in this round.
+      const freezingSet = new Set();
+
+      // If val is something we should be freezing but aren't yet,
+      // add it to freezingSet.
+      function enqueue(val) {
+        if (Object(val) !== val) {
+          // ignore primitives
+          return;
+        }
+        const type = typeof val;
+        if (type !== 'object' && type !== 'function') {
+          // NB: handle for any new cases in future
+        }
+        if (frozenSet.has(val) || freezingSet.has(val)) {
+          // todo use uncurried form
+          // Ignore if already frozen or freezing
+          return;
+        }
+        freezingSet.add(val); // todo use uncurried form
+      }
+
+      function doFreeze(obj) {
+        // Immediately freeze the object to ensure reactive
+        // objects such as proxies won't add properties
+        // during traversal, before they get frozen.
+
+        // Object are verified before being enqueued,
+        // therefore this is a valid candidate.
+        // Throws if this fails (strict mode).
+        freeze(obj);
+
+        // We rely upon certain commitments of Object.freeze and proxies here
+
+        // Get stable/immutable outbound links before a Proxy has a chance to do
+        // something sneaky.
+        const proto = getPrototypeOf(obj);
+        const descs = getOwnPropertyDescriptors(obj);
+        enqueue(proto);
+        ownKeys(descs).forEach((name) => {
+          // todo uncurried form
+          // todo: getOwnPropertyDescriptors is guaranteed to return well-formed
+          // descriptors, but they still inherit from Object.prototype. If
+          // someone has poisoned Object.prototype to add 'value' or 'get'
+          // properties, then a simple 'if ("value" in desc)' or 'desc.value'
+          // test could be confused. We use hasOwnProperty to be sure about
+          // whether 'value' is present or not, which tells us for sure that
+          // this is a data property.
+          const desc = descs[name];
+          if ('value' in desc) {
+            // todo uncurried form
+            enqueue(desc.value);
+          } else {
+            enqueue(desc.get);
+            enqueue(desc.set);
+          }
+        });
+      }
+
+      function dequeue() {
+        // New values added before forEach() has finished will be visited.
+        freezingSet.forEach(doFreeze); // todo curried forEach
+      }
+
+      function commit() {
+        // todo curried forEach
+        // we capture the real WeakSet.prototype.add above, in case someone
+        // changes it. The two-argument form of forEach passes the second
+        // argument as the 'this' binding, so we add to the correct set.
+        freezingSet.forEach(frozenSet.add, frozenSet);
+      }
+
+      enqueue(node);
+      dequeue();
+      commit();
+    }
+
+    innerDeepFreeze(root);
+    return root;
+  }
+};
diff --git a/lib/internal/main/worker_thread.js b/lib/internal/main/worker_thread.js
index b6dbc47274a7da..0dc1b61ef94f45 100644
--- a/lib/internal/main/worker_thread.js
+++ b/lib/internal/main/worker_thread.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 const {
   initializeDeprecations,
   initializeESMLoader,
+  initializeFrozenIntrinsics,
   initializeReport,
   loadPreloadModules,
   setupTraceCategoryState
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ port.on('message', (message) => {
       require('internal/process/policy').setup(manifestSrc, manifestURL);
     }
     initializeDeprecations();
+    initializeFrozenIntrinsics();
     initializeESMLoader();
     loadPreloadModules();
     publicWorker.parentPort = publicPort;
diff --git a/node.gyp b/node.gyp
index 28cbf63366c749..a6e884e15ce6fe 100644
--- a/node.gyp
+++ b/node.gyp
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@
       'lib/internal/error-serdes.js',
       'lib/internal/fixed_queue.js',
       'lib/internal/freelist.js',
+      'lib/internal/freeze_intrinsics.js',
       'lib/internal/fs/promises.js',
       'lib/internal/fs/read_file_context.js',
       'lib/internal/fs/streams.js',
diff --git a/src/node_options.cc b/src/node_options.cc
index ebd4baf2b7c6a8..9f94c75767bcf1 100644
--- a/src/node_options.cc
+++ b/src/node_options.cc
@@ -187,6 +187,10 @@ EnvironmentOptionsParser::EnvironmentOptionsParser() {
             kAllowedInEnvironment);
 #endif  // NODE_REPORT
   AddOption("--expose-internals", "", &EnvironmentOptions::expose_internals);
+  AddOption("--frozen-intrinsics",
+            "experimental frozen intrinsics support",
+            &EnvironmentOptions::frozen_intrinsics,
+            kAllowedInEnvironment);
   AddOption("--http-parser",
             "Select which HTTP parser to use; either 'legacy' or 'llhttp' "
 #ifdef NODE_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP_DEFAULT
diff --git a/src/node_options.h b/src/node_options.h
index 46963181aa47fb..b3ac910b3d57eb 100644
--- a/src/node_options.h
+++ b/src/node_options.h
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ class EnvironmentOptions : public Options {
   bool experimental_repl_await = false;
   bool experimental_vm_modules = false;
   bool expose_internals = false;
+  bool frozen_intrinsics = false;
   std::string http_parser =
 #ifdef NODE_EXPERIMENTAL_HTTP_DEFAULT
     "llhttp";
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-freeze-intrinsics.js b/test/parallel/test-freeze-intrinsics.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..bb94946d2d0f3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-freeze-intrinsics.js
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+// Flags: --frozen-intrinsics
+'use strict';
+require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+
+try {
+  Object.defineProperty = 'asdf';
+  assert(false);
+} catch {
+}
diff --git a/tools/license-builder.sh b/tools/license-builder.sh
index 1e82d9da0d0330..55f630285eaceb 100755
--- a/tools/license-builder.sh
+++ b/tools/license-builder.sh
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ addlicense "node-inspect" "deps/node-inspect" "$(cat ${rootdir}/deps/node-inspec
 # large_pages
 addlicense "large_pages" "src/large_pages" "$(sed -e '/SPDX-License-Identifier/,$d' -e 's/^\/\///' ${rootdir}/src/large_pages/node_large_page.h)"
 
+# deep_freeze
+addlicense "caja" "lib/internal/freeze_intrinsics.js" "$(sed -e '/SPDX-License-Identifier/,$d' -e 's/^\/\///' ${rootdir}/lib/internal/freeze_intrinsics.js)"
+
 # brotli
 addlicense "brotli" "deps/brotli" "$(cat ${rootdir}/deps/brotli/LICENSE)"