Accounts require a rent deposit in SOL, proportional to the amount of data stored, which is fully refundable when the account is closed. But the thing that confuses me is that if i have a phantom wallet and It's balance got zero (So the account will be closed?) and if so, If I want to add SOL to my wallet I can't send them because the account doesn't exist. and when an account is created it already has zero balance so how does it work? (Basically I asked ChatGPT about this and it said "You can't add balance to that account again") So I am confused how this works?
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Wallets are accounts owned by the system program and can not store data besides the basic account info (where you have a field named lamports to save the sol balance). As the data size is always 0, they are rent exempt.Kox– Kox2025-01-10 08:34:49 +00:00Commented Jan 10, 2025 at 8:34
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Think of accounts as storage units. They either store executable code or nonexecutable code. Rent is what you pay for storage. Everything on Solana is an account. Rent is not charged on based on space but on time. If you delete an account, you cannot retrieve it. There are incinerators that can destroy token accounts and refund rent to you, but closed accounts are not retrievable
