Plain-English guides on excess SOL recovery for Solana token creators.
If you launched an SPL token on Solana, your mint account may be holding recoverable SOL above the rent-exempt minimum. Learn what excess SOL is, who can reclaim it, and how to recover it safely and non-custodially with UnbrickSOL.
Read guide →Every Solana account must hold a minimum SOL balance called the rent-exempt reserve. Here's what it is, how it's calculated, and why token mint accounts often end up holding excess SOL above it.
Read guide →SIMD-0266 introduced withdraw_excess_lamports, the Solana instruction that lets authorised owners reclaim SOL sitting above the rent-exempt minimum in a mint account. Here's how it works.
Read guide →Renounced your mint authority as a trust signal? You can still recover excess SOL if you kept the original mint keypair. Here's how renounced-mint recovery works and why it's safe.
Read guide →Solana has two token programs. Both can hold excess SOL, but they differ in account size and how recovery works. Here's what to know about excess-SOL recovery on the Token Program and Token-2022.
Read guide →Excess-SOL recovery is safe when it's non-custodial: your keys stay with you, nobody else can claim your mint's SOL, and every recovery is a single verifiable on-chain transaction. Here's why.
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