Should you burn dead tokens on Solana?
Short answer: A dead token has no market or liquidity, so its balance can’t be sold. Burning destroys the balance so the account can be closed, returning its rent. It’s irreversible, so SolRent only recommends it when no market exists at all.
Steps
- Scan. Tokens with no Jupiter price and under $200 of DEX liquidity are flagged as dead.
- Decide. Each one is shown individually; tokens that might still have value are unticked by default.
- Burn and close. BurnChecked then CloseAccount in one transaction returns the rent.
What you get back
The token balance is worthless, but the account still holds its rent deposit. Burning lets you close the account and recover that SOL.
What SolRent will never do
- Burn a token with a real market worth more than $5.
- Burn NFTs, frozen tokens, or tokens with transfer hooks.
- Burn anything you didn’t explicitly select.
How SolRent decides a token is dead
A token is flagged as dead when it has no Jupiter price and less than $200 of DEX liquidity. In other words, there is no realistic way to sell it. That covers rugged memecoins, abandoned projects and spam tokens airdropped to your wallet.
Burning vs leaving it
- Leave it: nothing happens. The tokens stay, and so does the rent deposit in their account.
- Burn and close:
BurnCheckeddestroys the balance, thenCloseAccountreturns the rent to you. SolRent does both in one transaction, up to 10 tokens per transaction.
From a legacy account, that means about 0.00204 SOL back per token. For a wallet with 100 rugged memecoins, that is around 0.2 SOL.
Before you burn
- Burning is permanent. There is no undo.
- "Dead" is based on market data, which can be wrong or out of date, and occasionally a token gains a market again.
- If a project has announced a migration, relaunch or claim, don't burn its token until that has finished.
That is why SolRent never pre-selects tokens that might still have value, and only burns what you explicitly tick.
Spam tokens and airdrops
Some unknown tokens appear in your wallet with a name or link telling you to visit a site to "claim" something. Don't visit it, and never sign a transaction from such a site. Burning the spam token with SolRent is safe because the transaction is built by SolRent, simulated first, and only burns and closes. It never interacts with the spam token's website or program.
What SolRent won't burn
Tokens with a real market worth more than $5, NFTs, frozen tokens, and tokens with transfer hooks are never offered for burning.