Overview
What Account Demolisher does for you, what it closes, and where to start.
Account Demolisher closes a Stellar account and sends everything it holds to an address you choose. Closing an account releases the XLM that Stellar keeps locked in it as reserve, which a plain "send all my funds" transfer leaves behind.
You keep control the whole way. The app never receives your secret key, it shows you every step before you sign, and nothing is submitted until you confirm.
Start here
Try it on testnet
Create a free practice account and close it end to end. No real money.
Close an account
The full walkthrough, from connecting a wallet to the closed-account receipt.
What gets cleaned up
Closing an account means clearing everything attached to it first. The app does that in one reviewed plan:
| Attached to your account | What happens |
|---|---|
| Tokens other than XLM | Sold for XLM, or returned to the issuer or sent as-is as you choose |
| Open buy and sell offers | Cancelled |
| Trustlines | Emptied, then removed |
| Saved data entries | Deleted |
| Extra signers and raised thresholds | Cleared and reset |
| Pending payments set aside for you | Collected into your balance, unless you leave them out |
| Reserves the account holds for its own entries | Released back to you |
| Blend, Aquarius and Soroswap positions | Repaid, claimed and withdrawn before the close |
| Token spending permissions | Set to zero |
| Standalone tokens you select | Sent to your destination or converted to XLM |
Where the funds can go
Any Stellar address that already exists on the network. Two cases behave differently:
- An address you control. The account merges straight into it. See Close an account.
- An exchange deposit address. Exchanges credit payments with a memo, not account merges, so the app routes the funds through a temporary forwarding account that pays the exchange with your deposit memo. See Send the funds to an exchange.
Other things you can do here
Revoke token allowances
Review and cancel standing approvals on any address, without closing anything.
Close a shared account
Collect signatures from the signers of a multisig account.
If something stops you
- Clear a blocked closure covers everything the app asks you to resolve or read before you sign.
- When a step fails covers a close that stops partway.
- FAQ has the short answers.