Revoke Mint Authority on Solana

Mint authority is the wallet allowed to call mintTo on your Solana SPL token. Whoever holds it can mint unlimited new supply, diluting all existing holders. For a memecoin, this is the single biggest rug-pull pattern — so traders treat tokens with active mint authority as high risk.

Revoking mint authority sets the mint authority field to null. After revocation, no one can ever mint again — not the dev, not a multisig, not even the Solana Foundation. Your token's supply is locked forever.

Most legitimate Solana memecoin launches revoke mint authority in the same transaction that mints the supply, so there's never a window where mint authority is active. See our mint authority guide for the deep dive.

Three ways to do it:

1. At creation (recommended): use Alchemii's Token Creator above and check "Revoke Mint" before signing. One transaction creates the token and revokes authority.
2. After creation, via Alchemii: paste your token's mint address into the form, leave other fields blank, check "Revoke Mint", and sign. Costs ~0.05 SOL.
3. Via spl-token CLI: run spl-token authorize MINT_ADDRESS mint --disable from a wallet that holds mint authority.

For a step-by-step walkthrough, read our how to revoke mint authority guide.

Some tokens legitimately need active mint authority — usually transferred to a multisig:

• Game reward tokens (need to mint as players earn)
• Stablecoins (need to mint as collateral grows)
• DAO governance tokens (need to mint via passed proposals)
• Vesting/inflation-based utility tokens (need scheduled mints)

For these, transfer mint authority to a Squads multisig or a Realms governance account instead of revoking. Memecoin launchers should always revoke — there's no legitimate reason to keep it active.