Find, unstake and withdraw Solana stake accounts

Staked SOL does not sit in your wallet's balance. When you stake natively, your wallet creates a separate 200-byte account owned by the Stake program, moves the SOL into it and delegates it to a validator. Your wallet address is not where the SOL lives; it is recorded inside that account as the stake authority and the withdraw authority. Many wallets only display stake accounts they created themselves, so stake made years ago, in another app, or with an imported key can drop out of sight entirely.

The chain still knows. SOLTidy asks the Stake program for every account whose withdraw authority, stored at byte 44, or stake authority, stored at byte 12, is the address you give it. That finds stake regardless of which app created it or what the stake account's own address is. Because it is just a read, you can run it on any address without connecting. Inactive accounts are the forgotten SOL: fully unstaked, earning nothing, and withdrawable at once.

Stake changes state only at epoch boundaries. A Solana epoch is 432,000 slots, which is about 26 hours, just over a day, at November 2026 slot times. When you deactivate, the stake enters a deactivating state and continues to earn rewards for the rest of the current epoch. When the next epoch begins it becomes inactive and can be withdrawn. So unstaking takes anywhere from a few minutes to about two days, depending on how far into the epoch you are.

The panel reads the live epoch position from the network and shows the estimated time remaining, using the network's current average slot time. Two edge cases are worth knowing. Stake that was delegated and deactivated within the same epoch never became active, so it is withdrawable immediately. And the network limits how much total stake can cool down per epoch, so in rare periods of mass unstaking a very large account may take more than one epoch.

Deactivate is signed by the stake authority and only begins the cooldown. No SOL moves, and you can delegate again later if you change your mind. SOLTidy charges nothing for it. Withdraw is signed by the withdraw authority and moves lamports out of the stake account. SOLTidy always withdraws the entire balance, which includes the rent-exempt reserve of about 0.0023 SOL and any rewards, and an account drained to zero is removed from the chain. That is how you close a stake account on Solana; there is no separate close instruction.

In most wallets both authorities are the same address, but they can differ, for instance when a custodian or a staking service holds the stake authority. The panel shows Deactivate only where your wallet is the stake authority and Withdraw only where it is the withdraw authority, and names the other authority otherwise. Accounts under a lockup that is still in force are marked Locked, because the Stake program rejects withdrawals until the lockup date or epoch passes unless the lockup custodian signs.

If you staked through Marinade, Jito, or another liquid staking pool, you hold a token such as mSOL or jitoSOL. That token is an ordinary SPL balance in a token account; the stake accounts behind it belong to the pool, not to you, so they will not appear here. To exit a liquid staking position you either swap the token for SOL on an exchange, which is instant, or use the pool's own delayed unstake, which hands you a stake account at the end of the epoch.

That last case is one of the most common sources of forgotten SOL. A delayed unstake, a stake pool withdrawal, or a split made by a staking dashboard leaves a native stake account, often already inactive, that your wallet's main screen never mentions. Those accounts do show up in this tool, because your wallet is their withdraw authority, and they can be withdrawn like any other.