John van Rijck

Did you know you can recover $SOL from token accounts you’re no longer using?

Here’s how it works: whenever you buy a token or NFT on Solana, the system spins up a token account in your wallet to hold it. Each of those accounts locks up about 0.00163 SOL as “rent” so it can stay active.

If you close the account, that SOL comes back to you.

Now, you might wonder, what happens to the tokens in that account if you close it? The answer is simple: you can’t. A token account must be empty before it can be closed. That means you’d need to transfer or sell whatever is inside first.

For example:

Let’s say you picked up 50 $FARTCOIN. That purchase created a token account in your wallet specifically for those tokens. If you decide to close that account, you’ll first need to send all 50 $FARTCOIN somewhere else (either to another wallet you own or by selling them). Only once it’s empty can you shut down the account and reclaim the 0.00163 Solana.

As for actually closing the accounts, there are tools for that, platforms like Claim Your Sol.

They’ll scan your wallet, show you all the unused token accounts, and let you shut them down to recover your locked-up SOL. Some even let you burn junk tokens and free up the rent automatically.

If you’ve been dabbling with meme coins on Solana , it’s worth checking out. You might be surprised how much you can recover.

For instance, closing 50 empty token accounts adds up to almost 0.1 SOL around $20 at today’s rates. Might make up for the lost profits on the memecoin?