Fee payer query

Question

Is it possible to take the token account creation fee from the wallet to which the token will be sent? Would they need to sign the transaction in order to achieve this?

Answer 1

It would only be possible to take the token account creation fee from the target of the account if the target also signed the transaction.

Answer 2

As mentioned in another answer, it is possible. If the traget is the payer, it has to be a signer as well.

Here's an example on how it could look like with Anchor:

#[derive(Accounts)]
pub struct CreateTokenAcct<'info> {
    #[account(mut)]
    pub user: Signer<'info>,
    #[account(mut)]
    pub target: Signer<'info>,
    pub mint: Account<'info, Mint>,
    #[account(init, payer = target, associated_token::mint = mint, associated_token::authority = target)]
    pub destination: Account<'info, TokenAccount>,
    pub system_program: Program <'info, System>,
    pub token_program: Program<'info, Token>,
    pub associated_token_program: Program<'info, AssociatedToken>,
    pub rent: Sysvar<'info, Rent>,

}