Before you buy
Is minting renounced? Can your account be frozen? Is there a permanent delegate who could move your balance? Three questions, answered in seconds.
Liber Monetarum · a book of tokens
Every token carries a hidden charter.
Mintlore reads a Solana mint straight from the chain and retells its powers in plain English — who may print more, who may freeze, what the Token-2022 extensions really allow — with a margin note on every risk.
Consulting the chain…
The Reader
Paste any Solana mint address — or a token account, and Mintlore will follow it to its mint.
Try a known tome:
Choose a token above, or paste a mint address. Its charter will be written here: its name, its powers, its extensions and what the market says about it.
How the scribe works
Four readings, all public, all read-only.
- i
Summon the record
One
getAccountInfocall withjsonParsedreturns the mint exactly as the token program stores it — owner program, authorities, supply, decimals and extensions. - ii
Read the powers
Mint and freeze authority are either a key or none. "None" means that power was given up forever; a key means someone can still use it.
- iii
Decipher extensions
Token-2022 mints can carry extensions. Each is translated into a sentence: what it does, who controls it, and whether it can touch your tokens.
- iv
Consult the market
Jupiter's public token index adds the name, icon, price, liquidity, holder count and verification status, when it knows the token.
What the lore tells you
Spot hidden taxes
A transfer-fee extension silently withholds a percentage on every transfer. Mintlore shows the current and scheduled rate and its ceiling.
Understand stablecoins
Regulated stablecoins usually keep mint and freeze powers on purpose. Seeing who holds them — and why — is part of understanding what you hold.
Check a launch
Launching a token? Confirm your mint looks the way you intended — authorities revoked, metadata pointed at the right place, no stray extensions.
Teach Token-2022
Real mints with real extensions make a far better lesson than a spec page. Load PYUSD and walk through each power.
Decode a token account
Paste a token account instead of a mint and Mintlore tells you whose it is, what it holds, whether it is frozen, then follows it to the mint.
A bestiary of token powers
A short guide to what a Solana mint can and cannot do.
On Solana, a token is not its own program. Every token is an account — a mint — owned by one of two shared programs: the original SPL Token program (Tokenkeg…) or Token-2022 (Tokenz…), also called Token Extensions. Because the program is shared and audited, a mint cannot hide arbitrary code. Everything it can do is written in its account data, which is why reading the mint tells you so much.
The mint authority is the key allowed to create new tokens. If it is set to none, supply can never grow again. Memecoins and fixed-supply tokens almost always renounce it; stablecoins keep it, because they mint when dollars come in and burn when they leave.
The freeze authority can freeze any individual token account for this mint so it cannot send or receive. Regulated assets keep it for compliance. On a memecoin, a live freeze authority is a classic warning sign: it can be used to stop holders from selling.
Supply and decimals. On-chain amounts are whole integers. Decimals say where the point goes: with 6 decimals, the raw number 1,000,000 means 1 token. Mintlore shows both, so you can see the raw truth and the human figure.
Token-2022 extensions add features without new code. Some are harmless conveniences — a metadata pointer that stores the name and symbol on the mint itself. Others move power: a permanent delegate can transfer or burn tokens from any holder; a transfer hook calls an outside program on every transfer, and whoever controls that program controls whether transfers succeed; a default account state of "frozen" means every new holder starts frozen until approved; a transfer fee skims a cut of each transfer. None of these are automatically bad — many have legitimate compliance uses — but you should know they are there.
An authority that is "none" is final. An authority that is a key can usually be changed, handed to someone else, or set to none later. Mintlore reports what is true at the moment you read it.
| Extension | In plain words | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Metadata pointer | Where name, symbol and image live | light |
| Token metadata | Name/symbol stored in the mint | light |
| Transfer fee | A % withheld on every transfer | mind it |
| Transfer hook | An outside program runs on every transfer | mind it |
| Interest-bearing | Displayed balance grows by a rate | light |
| Mint close authority | The mint can be closed when supply is 0 | light |
| Confidential transfers | Amounts can be encrypted | light |
| Non-transferable | Soulbound — cannot be sent | mind it |
| Default state: frozen | New holders start frozen | heavy |
| Pausable | All transfers can be paused | heavy |
| Permanent delegate | Can move or burn anyone's tokens | heavy |
| SPL Token | Token-2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Mint & freeze authority | Yes | Yes |
| Extensions | None | Opt-in, chosen at creation |
| On-mint metadata | No (uses Metaplex) | Yes |
| Mint account size | 82 bytes | 82 + extensions |
Questions put to the scribe
Does a clean charter mean a token is safe?
No. Mintlore reads the mint's powers. It cannot see who holds the supply, whether liquidity can be pulled, or what the team intends. A token with every authority renounced can still lose all its value.
Why do USDC and PYUSD show strong powers?
Regulated stablecoins keep mint and freeze authority — and sometimes a permanent delegate — so the issuer can mint against deposits, comply with legal orders and recover funds. It is by design, but it means you trust the issuer.
What does "authority: none" mean exactly?
The power was set to no key at all. Nobody, including the creator, can ever use it again. It cannot be re-enabled.
Where does the name and icon come from?
From the Token-2022 metadata extension when present, and from Jupiter's public token index. Names can be copied by anyone — always check the mint address itself.
Can I paste a wallet address?
You can, and Mintlore will tell you it's a wallet rather than a mint. Paste a token account and it will follow it to the mint for you.
Why is the transfer fee shown twice?
Token-2022 stores an older and a newer fee with the epoch at which the newer one starts. Changes are scheduled ahead so holders get warning; Mintlore tells you which is in force for the current epoch.
Does Mintlore need my wallet?
Never. It is read-only: no wallet connection, no signatures, no keys.
Limits & honesty
- Mint data comes from public RPC (
solana-rpc.publicnode.com); market data from Jupiter's public token index (lite-api.jup.ag). If either is slow, a retry appears. - Mintlore cannot see holder distribution beyond Jupiter's summary, liquidity locks, team wallets, or off-chain promises.
- Risk notes are rules of thumb about powers, not judgements about a project or its people.
- Metaplex metadata for classic SPL tokens is not decoded here; Jupiter's name is shown instead.
- Authorities can change after you read them. Re-read before you rely on anything.
- Nothing here is financial advice.