How to Manage a Solana Token After Minting

To manage a Solana token you created, open it in DexLab Token Hub, connect the wallet that holds the token authorities, and select the Manage tab. The tab groups every action into Feature Management, which covers minting more supply, distributing it, freezing an account, burning tokens, and editing metadata, and Authority Management, which covers handing an authority to another wallet or revoking it for good.

Each card is enabled by the authority your connected wallet actually holds, so a wallet that is not the mint authority cannot mint and a wallet that is not the metadata authority cannot edit metadata. Cards for Token-2022 extensions appear only on Token-2022 tokens. The three actions people look up most often have their own step-by-step guides, linked below.

How to Open the Manage Tab

  1. Open your token in Token Hub

    Go to Token Hub and open the page of the token you want to manage. Any Solana token page can be reached by its mint address, and the tokens you created are listed under My Tokens.

  2. Connect the wallet that holds the authorities

    The Manage tab needs a connected wallet and falls back to the Overview tab without one. Connect the wallet that created the token, or whichever wallet an authority was later transferred to.

  3. Select the Manage tab

    The tab is available for tokens created with the current DexLab Minting Lab. A legacy V1 token and a token created somewhere else both show a notice explaining that DexLab management is not available for them, while native transfers and burns still work from your wallet.

  4. Pick an action under Feature Management

    Feature Management holds Mint Token, Freeze or Thaw Account, Modify Metadata, Distribute Mint, and Burn Token. Token-2022 tokens also show Modify Transfer Fee, Modify Default Account State, Modify Interest Bearing Rate, and Withdraw Collected Fees.

  5. Use Authority Management to transfer or revoke a key

    Authority Management holds Update Mint Authority, Update Freeze Authority, and Update Metadata Authority, plus Update Permanent Delegate on Token-2022. Each one can hand the authority to another address or remove it permanently.

  6. Sign the transaction

    Every action builds a transaction, simulates it, and then asks your wallet to sign. Nothing is custodial: DexLab never holds your keys or your tokens, and an action your wallet is not authorized for cannot be signed at all.

Managing a Solana token FAQ

What can I still change after a Solana token is minted?

Metadata such as the name, ticker, logo, description, and links, as long as the metadata is mutable. Supply, by minting more while the mint authority exists or by burning tokens you hold. Account state, by freezing or thawing a holder account while the freeze authority exists. And the authorities themselves, which can be transferred or revoked. What you cannot change is the mint address, the decimals, and anything an already revoked authority used to control.

Update token metadata

Why are the cards greyed out?

Each card checks the authority it needs against the connected wallet. Mint Token needs the mint authority, Freeze or Thaw needs the freeze authority, Modify Metadata needs the metadata authority and mutable metadata, and Burn Token needs a balance in an account that is not frozen. If an authority was transferred, connect the wallet that holds it now. If it was revoked, the action is gone permanently for everyone.

Revoke mint or freeze authority

Can I manage a token that was not created on DexLab?

Not through this tab. The Manage tab serves tokens created with the current DexLab Minting Lab, and shows a notice for legacy V1 tokens and for tokens created elsewhere. Those tokens still appear in Token Hub with price, holders, and charts, and native SPL operations such as transferring and burning remain available directly from your wallet.

Create a Solana token

What does managing a token cost?

Each action carries a DexLab service fee read from the on-chain fee configuration rather than fixed in the app, and a token created through Minting Lab pays half of the standard fee. The Solana network fee is added on top. Your wallet shows the exact total for the transaction before you approve it.

Token creation cost

Which actions are Token-2022 only?

Modify Transfer Fee, Modify Default Account State, Modify Interest Bearing Rate, Withdraw Collected Fees, and Update Permanent Delegate are extensions of the Token-2022 program, so they appear only when the token uses it. Minting, freezing, burning, metadata, and the mint, freeze, and metadata authorities work on both standard SPL tokens and Token-2022 tokens.

How do I withdraw the transfer fees my Token-2022 token collected?

Through the Solana CLI. The Withdraw Collected Fees card is currently a documentation card rather than a form, because withdrawing withheld transfer fees is supported through the CLI only at the moment, and the card links to the instructions.

Is burning tokens the same as reducing the supply?

Yes, and it is permanent. Burning destroys tokens held by your own wallet and lowers the total supply on chain by that amount. It does not touch any other holder balance, and it cannot be reversed, so the amount should be confirmed before signing.

Burn tokens

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