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  1. Light token accounts are Solana accounts that hold token balances of light, SPL, or Token 2022 mints.
  2. Light token accounts are on-chain accounts like SPL ATA’s, but the light token program sponsors the rent-exemption cost for you.
  1. A rent sponsor PDA by Light Protocol pays the rent-exemption cost for the account.
  2. Transaction fee payers bump a virtual rent balance when writing to the account, which keeps the account “hot”.
  3. “Cold” accounts virtual rent balance below threshold (eg 24h without write bump) get auto-compressed.
  4. The cold account’s state is cryptographically preserved on the Solana ledger. Users can load a cold account into hot state in-flight when using the account again.
Install the agent skill:
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CreateTokenAccount creates an on-chain token account to store token balances of light, SPL, or Token 2022 mints.Compare to SPL:
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Prerequisites

Cargo.toml
Test with Lite-SVM (…)
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Create Token Account

Find the source code here.

Next Steps

Learn how to mint tokens to Light Token accounts