Wrap and Unwrap SOL
Turn a chain's native coin into its wrapped ERC-20 or SPL form, and back. Pools and many programs need the wrapped kind.
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Connect your wallet to wrap and unwrap SOL. You sign every action yourself, and nothing is custodial.
Common questions
What is wrapped SOL?
The same SOL, held in a token account instead of directly in your wallet. Programs that expect an SPL token cannot accept plain SOL, so they accept this instead. Nothing is exchanged and no price is involved: one wSOL is one SOL, permanently and by construction.
Do I need to wrap SOL?
Probably not. If you are holding, sending or receiving SOL, plain SOL is what you want. You need wSOL only when something specifically asks for it, and most swap routes and pools wrap it for you as part of their own transaction without you ever seeing this step.
Is there any risk of losing value when wrapping?
No. There is no exchange rate, no slippage, no counterparty and no market. Wrapping puts your lamports into a token account and unwrapping takes them out again. What it costs: Solana's network fee, the small refundable rent deposit the account holds while it exists, and our platform fee, which is charged on wrapping and again on unwrapping. Each button shows its fee before you sign, and on a small balance the unwrap fee can be more than what comes back.
Why can I only unwrap everything at once?
Because of how unwrapping works: it closes the token account, and closing an account returns everything in it. There is no partial close. If you want to keep some wrapped, unwrap the lot and then wrap the amount you actually want.
I wrapped all my SOL and now nothing works. What happened?
You need unwrapped SOL to pay network fees, and if everything is wrapped there is nothing left to pay with. Send a small amount of SOL to the wallet from somewhere else, then unwrap normally. Always leave a little behind when wrapping.
Does wSOL expire or need managing?
No. It sits there indefinitely and stays worth exactly the SOL you put in. The only reason to unwrap is that you want ordinary SOL back, plus the rent deposit the account is holding.
Why wrapped SOL exists at all
SOL is native and lives in your wallet; everything else is an SPL token that lives in its own account. A program that needs to treat both the same way, like a liquidity pool, cannot, so wrapping makes SOL look like a token: a wSOL account holds lamports as its token balance, and unwrapping closes it and returns every lamport. Nothing is traded and no rate is involved, so leave a little SOL unwrapped to pay the fee.
The usual reason it comes up is seeding a pool with Create a Liquidity Pool. To send SOL to many wallets you need no wrapping at all, just the SOL Multisender, and you can reclaim rent from token accounts you no longer need with the Incinerator.