Revoke Solana Token Authorities
Give up the mint authority, the freeze authority and the metadata for good, or hand one to another wallet.
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Connect your wallet to revoke or transfer an authority. You sign every action yourself, and nothing is custodial.
How to revoke a Solana token authority
- Connect the wallet that currently holds the authority. Only that wallet can revoke or transfer it, so a different one will be able to read the token but not change it.
- Paste your token's mint address, or pick it from the recent list if you deployed it here.
- Read the three switches. Each one says whether it is yours to give up, already given up, or held by another wallet, so you are never guessing at the starting state.
- Turn on what you want to give up: the mint authority, the freeze authority, the metadata, or any combination. They go into a single transaction, so it is one approval and one platform fee whether you pick one or all three.
- Confirm, then approve it in your wallet. Either everything you picked lands or none of it does, and it is permanent from the moment it confirms.
- To hand an authority to a multisig or a co-founder instead of destroying it, use the transfer form below the switches. That is just as final: it belongs to the receiving wallet from that moment.
Common questions
What does revoking the mint authority actually do?
It permanently removes anyone's ability to create more of your token. The supply becomes fixed at whatever exists at that moment. This is the single strongest signal a token can give, because dilution is the easiest way for a team to take value from holders and revoking closes it off for good.
What does revoking the freeze authority do?
It permanently removes anyone's ability to stop a specific wallet from transferring your token. While that authority exists, whoever holds it can prevent a holder from selling. Buyers check for this, and our Rug Check reports it as a risk while it is live.
What does locking the metadata do?
It fixes the name, symbol and logo so nobody can ever change them, including you. While the metadata is unlocked, a token bought as one thing can be renamed into something else afterwards, which is a real tactic: a worthless token gets renamed to impersonate a well known one. Locking closes it, and it is the third switch on this page.
Can I do all three at once?
Yes, and that is what the switches are for. Whatever you turn on goes into a single transaction, so it is one wallet approval and one platform fee whether you give up one authority or all three. It is also all-or-nothing: if the transaction fails you have given up none of them, so you are never left half-finished and unsure which half landed.
Can a revoked authority ever be restored?
No. Not by us, not by you, not by Solana, not by anyone. There is no recovery process and no support ticket that reverses it. That permanence is the entire reason it is worth something to the people holding your token, so treat it as a one-way door and rehearse on testnet first.
What is the difference between revoking and transferring?
Revoking destroys the authority so nobody has it. Transferring moves it to another wallet, which then holds exactly the power you just gave up. Transferring is what you want when moving control to a multisig or a co-founder. It is just as final as revoking: an address typed wrong hands your authority to a wallet nobody controls.
Do I need to give up all three?
They are separate decisions and you can do any one without the others. Most community tokens revoke mint and freeze, and that is the state buyers look for. Revoking the mint authority alone still leaves you able to freeze wallets, which a careful buyer will notice. Locking the metadata is the one people forget, and it is worth doing once the name and logo are final.
Will revoking break my liquidity pool or my token?
No. Revoking changes who may create supply, freeze accounts or edit the name, and nothing else. Transfers, pools, trading and balances all carry on exactly as before. Plenty of the largest tokens on Solana have every authority revoked.
Why this is the page buyers care about
A Solana token is not a bespoke contract. It is a standard mint whose behaviour is fixed by the network, and the only real levers a creator keeps are these three. That makes them the whole trust conversation: someone deciding whether to buy your token is mostly asking whether you can still print more of it, stop them selling, or rename it into something else after they have bought.
Because all of it is written on-chain, nobody has to take your word for any of it either way. Revoking is how a promise becomes something a stranger can verify in ten seconds.
What each authority controls
- Mint authority. The right to create more supply. While it exists, the total supply is a number that can change, and every increase dilutes everyone already holding.
- Freeze authority. The right to stop a chosen wallet transferring the token. While it exists, any holder can in principle be prevented from selling.
- Update authority. The right to rewrite the name, symbol and logo. While it exists, the token someone bought can become a different token by name tomorrow. Giving it up is the third switch, and it is the same action as Lock metadata on Update Metadata, which is the natural place to do it right after a final edit.
One transaction, one fee
Whatever you switch on goes into a single transaction. That means one wallet approval and one platform fee for one authority or for all three, and it means the whole thing is all-or-nothing: a rejection or a failure gives up none of them rather than leaving you half-finished and unsure which half landed.
When you might keep one
There are honest reasons. A project with a published emissions schedule needs the mint authority to run it. A token doing a staged release may want it during the release and revoke afterwards. A regulated issuer may genuinely need to freeze accounts. A team still settling on artwork has a reason to leave the metadata unlocked a while longer.
The rule of thumb is simple: keeping an authority is fine if you can say out loud why, and if the reason would still sound reasonable to somebody who has just lost money. If the honest answer is "in case I need it later", that is the answer buyers assume and price in.
Practise before you commit
Flip the top bar to Testnet and run the whole thing on a test token first. It is free, it behaves identically, and it costs nothing to discover that you had the wrong wallet connected before doing it for real. When you are done, check the result with the Rug Checker, which reads the same authorities a buyer would.