Excess SOL Recovery FAQ
Everything you need to know about reclaiming the SOL locked in your Solana token mints.
Every Solana account must hold a minimum balance (the rent-exempt reserve). Token mints often hold more than that minimum. The surplus is excess SOL, and it used to be stuck.
No. Recovery needs an authorised signature: your mint authority wallet or the original mint keypair. A mint address alone gives no access.
No. Only the surplus above the rent-exempt minimum moves. Your token supply, metadata, and authorities stay exactly the same.
Yes. It's live on mainnet today, for both the Token Program and Token-2022.
Yes, if you still have the original mint keypair. UnbrickSOL reads it locally in your browser and never uploads it. No keypair, no recovery.
Yes. No seed phrase, no custody, no uploaded keys. You sign in your own wallet and can verify the transaction on-chain.
It depends on the mint. Some hold a tiny amount, others a lot. Scan yours to see the exact figure before you decide.