Transfer SOL in Lamports)

Transfers SOL from one wallet to another.

Returns: Promise<string>


const signature = await connection.transferLamports({
  source: senderWallet,
  destination: recipientAddress,
  amount: 1_000_000_000n,
  skipPreflight: true,
  maximumClientSideRetries: 0,
});

Options

source: KeyPairSigner - The wallet to send SOL from
destination: Address - The wallet to send SOL to
amount: Lamports - Amount of lamports to send
skipPreflight: boolean (optional) - Whether to skip preflight checks (default: true)
maximumClientSideRetries: number (optional) - Maximum number of times to retry sending the transaction (default: 0)
abortSignal: AbortSignal | null (optional) - Signal to abort the transaction (default: null)