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  1. I created a USDC ATA and was accepting funds there.

  2. I closed the ATA and recouped the SOL. This means the ATA's owner became the System Program instead of the Token Program.

  3. Finally, someone sent USDC to the now-closed ATA that is owned by the System Program. Out of courtesy, since the recipient (the now-closed ATA) is owned by the System Program, a new ATA was created with the now-closed ATA listed as the owner.

Is there anyway to get the funds back? I could theoretically re-create the original ATA, but I would need a custom instruction added to the Token Program to do the transfer (the instruction would load the original ATA, see that I own it, and use that as proof to allow the transfer from the new ATA).

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It turns out the answer is yes.

There is a recover_nested instruction in the Associated Token Program: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana-program-library/blob/master/associated-token-account/program/src/instruction.rs#L123-L161

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