Claim Your Sol

Claim Your Sol is a Solana utility tool that helps users recover SOL locked as rent deposits inside unused SPL token accounts. Built by Santos Labs, a Portuguese software firm, the project launched in 2023 and has grown into one of the more established tools in a crowded segment of Solana wallet-maintenance utilities.

The Problem: Rent Locked in Dormant Accounts

Every account on the Solana blockchain must hold a small SOL balance — a fully refundable storage bond — to remain rent-exempt. For a standard 165-byte SPL token account, that deposit is roughly 0.00203928 SOL. The deposit returns in full when the account is closed. Over time, active Solana wallets accumulate dozens or hundreds of these accounts: one is created automatically each time a user receives a new SPL token or interacts with a protocol that issues a token. When those tokens are spent, the account shell remains, along with its locked rent.

For a wallet that has been active since 2021 or 2022, dozens of empty accounts add up to a meaningful amount of otherwise inaccessible SOL. Claim Your Sol is designed to surface those accounts and return the deposits in a single session.

How It Works

The tool is non-custodial. Users connect a Solana-compatible wallet — private keys never leave the wallet application — and the platform scans on-chain state for accounts that qualify for closure. Three operation modes are available:

Close Accounts closes any SPL token account with a zero token balance, returning the full rent deposit. No asset is destroyed or affected; these accounts are already empty.

Burn and Close is for accounts that still hold a small balance of an unwanted token. The tool first destroys the token balance by burning it and then closes the account. This action is irreversible and is intended for dust balances or tokens the user explicitly wants to discard.

Close Mint Accounts applies to Token-2022 mint accounts where the user holds the close authority. This is relevant for developers or users who created tokens under the newer Token-2022 program.

Transactions are batched for efficiency. Network fees are typically under 0.00001 SOL per batch, and the platform charges a 1% fee on the total recovered SOL. The net SOL is sent directly to the connected wallet on confirmation.

SIMD-0437 Rent Reduction Support

A more recent capability reflects Solana's ongoing protocol evolution. SIMD-0437 is a staged proposal that reduces the lamports-per-byte rent requirement from 6,960 to 696 across five steps, ultimately cutting the minimum balance for each account by roughly 90%. The full reduction is expected to complete in late 2026.

Rather than closing accounts, this creates a different opportunity: users with non-empty accounts that hold more SOL than the new lower minimum can withdraw the excess via Solana's WithdrawExcessLamports instruction — recovering funds without touching token balances at all. Claim Your Sol added support for this mechanism as of the SIMD-0437 implementation, reading the current network minimum and showing users both reclaimable excess on open accounts and closeable empty accounts before any transaction is signed.

Scale and Activity

As of September 2026, the platform's live dashboard reports cumulative figures of approximately 94,400 SOL recovered and 57.7 million total reclaim and burn transactions processed. The project has been running continuously since 2023, with the @claimyoursol account on X posting actively as recently as September 18, 2026.

Team and Infrastructure

Santos Labs, the Portuguese development firm behind Claim Your Sol, operates the site under its own branding. The infrastructure uses Helius as an RPC provider — the dashboard reflects near-real-time Solana network data, reporting approximately 4,000 TPS during active sessions. The site is available in English, Chinese, and Portuguese, reflecting the team's intent to serve an international user base.

No third-party security audits for the Claim Your Sol application have been disclosed publicly. The non-custodial model limits exposure: the tool can only initiate transactions the user signs, and it has no ability to access tokens or SOL beyond what the signed instructions specify. Users considering the Burn and Close feature should verify token balances carefully, as burned token amounts cannot be recovered.

Ecosystem Context

Claim Your Sol operates in a segment that includes several comparable tools — Sol Incinerator, YourFreeSol, SolRefunds, and others all offer SPL account closure. The distinguishing features for Claim Your Sol are its support for the Token-2022 close-mint flow, active maintenance against protocol changes like SIMD-0437, and a track record of more than three years of continuous operation. The 1% fee is competitive within the category.

For Solana users who have interacted with DeFi protocols, NFT marketplaces, or token launches over multiple years, the tool offers a practical way to recover SOL that would otherwise sit unused in accounts that serve no further purpose.