Can the people behind a token print more of it? We checked 27

Two questions hardly anyone asks about a token: can its creators make more of it, and can they freeze your balance? We checked both for 27 hand-picked Solana tokens. 16 of them have neither power in anyone's hands. 11 still let someone create more tokens, and 5 let someone freeze balances.

Why this matters

Making more tokens. A token's creator can sometimes keep the power to create more of it. Technically this is called the mint authority. If more tokens appear, each existing token is a smaller slice of the total. Some tokens switch this power off for good, so the total can no longer grow through that route. Others keep it on purpose. A stablecoin, for example, creates new tokens when someone deposits dollars.

Freezing a balance. A token can also come with the power to freeze the balance in a wallet, so that it cannot be moved. Technically this is the freeze authority. If it exists, the issuer can lock your balance. Issuers of regulated assets use this power to meet legal duties. That is why a stablecoin can have it and still work as designed.

A power being switched on tells you what someone is able to do. It does not tell you what they have done. This post counts the powers. It does not rate any token. Mint authority and freeze authority explains each one in more detail.

What we found

Most of the 27 tokens have neither power: 16. Nobody can create more, and nobody can freeze a balance.
11 tokens still let someone create more. Of those, 6 can only create more, and 5 can also freeze balances.
5 tokens let someone freeze balances. All 5 can also create more. None can freeze without also being able to create.
USDC has both powers. Its issuer creates and redeems dollars and can freeze a balance when required to. Its page shows the address that holds each power.
Only 2 of the 27 use the newer Token-2022 standard. It lets a token carry extras, such as a fee on every transfer or a way for the issuer to move tokens out of a wallet. Two tokens are too few to say how common those extras are.

These counts describe a hand-picked list. They do not describe Solana as a whole, or a typical token on it.

Numbers

The list has 27 tokens. All reads were made on 2026-10-01, at slots 452368178 to 452368455, between 18:28:51Z and 18:30:07Z.

Power to create more tokens (mint authority)

Mint authority	Tokens
Set	11
None	16

Power to freeze a balance (freeze authority)

Freeze authority	Tokens
Set	5
None	22

Who can create more tokens, and who can freeze balances How many of the 27 hand-picked tokens have each power with someone and how many have it switched off, as of 2026-10-01. The list is hand-picked, not a sample of all tokens.

For 11 of the 27 tokens, someone can still create more. For 16, nobody can. For 5 of the 27, someone can freeze balances. For 22, nobody can.

Power	Someone holds it (tokens)	Switched off (tokens)
Power to create more tokens	11	16
Power to freeze a balance	5	22

Both powers together

Mint authority	Freeze authority	Tokens
Set	Set	5
Set	None	6
None	None	16
None	Set	0

The two powers together How many of the 27 hand-picked tokens fall in each combination of the two powers, as of 2026-10-01. The four counts add up to 27.

16 of the 27 tokens have neither power held by anyone and 5 have both. 6 can only create more tokens. None can freeze balances without also being able to create more.

Powers someone holds	Tokens (tokens)
Both	5
Create only	6
Neither	16
Freeze only	0

In this list, every token that can freeze balances can also create more tokens. The reverse is not true: 6 tokens can create more and cannot freeze.

Token-2022, the newer token standard

Program	Tokens
SPL Token (the original standard)	25
Token-2022	2

The 2 Token-2022 tokens carry 8 distinct kinds of extra (called extensions) between them. 3 of those kinds appear on both tokens: metadataPointer, tokenMetadata and transferHook. The other 5 each appear on one token. Extensions such as the permanent delegate and transfer fees and hooks are features that an issuer chooses. An extension being present does not mean it is in use: the transfer fee on the one token that has the fee extension is 0 bps. (1 basis point, or bp, is 0.01%, so 0 bps is a fee of 0%.)

How we measured it

For each of the 27 tokens we looked at its public on-chain record at a recorded moment (a "slot" is Solana's tick of time). That record lists the token's standard, who holds each of the two powers, the total supply and any Token-2022 extras. An empty field is counted as "none". Anyone can check a token: open it on a Solana block explorer and read the same fields.

Method and caveats

What "hand-picked" means. The 27 tokens are the ones with a page on deeptally.io. We chose them by hand. They are not a random sample, and they are not all tokens that exist. The numbers describe these 27 tokens only. They do not describe Solana, or a typical token on it.

Rerunning it. Run the check later and the counts can differ, because the list can change and so can the powers.

What this does not tell you.

A snapshot. Each value is as of that token's own slot. A holder can pass on or switch off a power at any later time.
Not one instant. The 27 reads ran one after another across about a minute and a half (76 seconds), so they do not share one slot.
None means switched off or never set. The record cannot tell a token that switched a power off from one that never had it.
Set is not misuse. A power being set says what someone is able to do. It does not say what they have done, and this census does not look at individual wallets.
Who holds a power. We count whether a power is set, not whether it sits with one person, a group that must agree, or a program.
Small counts. With 2 Token-2022 tokens, the extension counts cannot say how common any extra is.

To check any token yourself, open its page here and read the Authorities section.