Freeze and Thaw Instructions

Freeze prevents all token operations on an account until it's thawed. Only the mint's freeze authority can perform this operation.

Completely disables transfers, approvals, and burns and it only affects the specific frozen account

Thaw re-enables token operations on a previously frozen account. Only the mint's freeze authority can thaw accounts.

Restores full functionality to a frozen account and can only be performed by the mint's freeze authority

Before we can freeze and thaw any token, we'll need to already have:

Initialized a Mint account which we hold the freezeAuthority
Initialized a Token account or Associated Token account that we want to freeze or thaw

Raw Instruction

By using just "raw" instruction without any abstraction, this is how freezing a token would look like:

ts
const tokenAccount = Keypair.generate();
 
const tokenAccount = await getAssociatedTokenAddress(
    mint.publicKey,
    tokenAccount.publicKey,
);
 
// Create ATA creation instruction
const createAtaInstruction = createAssociatedTokenAccountIdempotentInstruction(
    keypair.publicKey, // payer
    tokenAccount, // associated token account address
    destination.publicKey, // owner
    mint.publicKey, // mint
);
 
// Freeze an ATA 
const freezeInstruction = createFreezeAccountInstruction(
    tokenAccount // account
    mint // mint
    keypair.publickey // authority
);
 
const transaction = new Transaction().add(
    createAtaInstruction,
    freezeInstruction,
);
 
const signature = await sendAndConfirmTransaction(connection, transaction, [keypair]);
 
console.log(`Token accounts created and frozen! Check out your TX here: https://explorer.solana.com/tx/${signature}?cluster=devnet`);

By using just "raw" instruction without any abstraction, this is how revoke a token would look like:

ts
// Thaw an ATA 
const thawInstruction = createThawAccountInstruction(
    tokenAccount // account
    mint // mint
    keypair.publickey // authority
);
 
const transaction = new Transaction().add(thawInstruction);
 
const signature = await sendAndConfirmTransaction(connection, transaction, [keypair]);
 
console.log(`Token account thawed! Check out your TX here: https://explorer.solana.com/tx/${signature}?cluster=devnet`);

Abstracted Instruction

This is how the same instructions would look like abstracted away with the freezeAccount() instruction:

ts
const tokenAccount = Keypair.generate();
 
const ata = await getOrCreateAssociatedTokenAccount(
    connection,
    keypair,
    mint,
    tokenAccount.publicKey
);
 
console.log(`This is your ATA: ${ata.address}!`)
  
let tx = await freezeAccount(
    connection,
    keypair,
    tokenAccount // account
    mint // mint
    keypair.publickey // authority
);
 
console.log(`Token Account succesfully Frozen!. Transaction Here: https://explorer.solana.com/tx/${tx}?cluster=devnet`)

This is how the same instructions would look like abstracted away with the thawAccount() instruction:

ts
let tx = await thawAccount(
    connection,
    keypair,
    tokenAccount // account
    mint // mint
    keypair.publickey // authority
);
 
console.log(`Token Account succesfully Thawed!. Transaction Here: https://explorer.solana.com/tx/${tx}?cluster=devnet`)

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Freeze and Thaw Instructions

Raw Instruction

Abstracted Instruction