solana token transfer An account required by the instruction is missing

External question — Solana Stack Exchange Author: lsj Original post: https://solana.stackexchange.com/questions/15880 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. I minted an NFT with anchor and would like to send it to a different address. NFT Mint address is BoWAiiGuVTEY7Jsck6KuCoRPMDUgC5wpH84RoRBBNMDS program use anchor_spl::token::{mint_to, Mint, MintTo, Token, TokenAccount,TransferChecked,transfer_checked}; pub fn transfer_test(ctx: Context<TransferTest>) -> Result<()> { let cpi_accounts = TransferChecked { from: ctx.accounts.from.to_account_info(), to: ctx.accounts.to_ata.to_account_info(), authority: ctx.accounts.authority.to_account_info(), mint:ctx.accounts.mint.to_account_info() }; let cpi_program = ctx.accounts.token_program.to_account_info(); // Create the CpiContext we need for the request let cpi_ctx = CpiContext::new(cpi_program, cpi_accounts); transfer_checked(cpi_ctx,1,0)?; Ok(()) } #[derive(Accounts)] pub struct TransferTest<'info> { #[account( init_if_needed, payer = authority, associated_token::mint = mint, associated_token::authority = authority, )] pub to_ata: Account<'info, TokenAccount>, #[account(mut)] pub mint: Account<'info, Mint>, pub token_program: Program<'info, Token>, /// CHECK: This is the token account that we want to mint tokens to #[account(mut)] pub from: Account<'info, TokenAccount>, /// CHECK: the authority of the mint account #[account(mut)] pub authority: Signer<'info>, pub system_program: Program<'info, System>, pub associated_token_program: Program<'info, AssociatedToken>, pub rent: Sysvar<'info, Rent>, } test const provider = anchor.AnchorProvider.env(); anchor.setProvider(provider); const program = anchor.workspace.Test as Program<Test>; const authority = provider.wallet.publicKey const mintAddress = new PublicKey("BoWAiiGuVTEY7Jsck6KuCoRPMDUgC5wpH84RoRBBNMDS"); it("Burns tokens from the token account", async () => { // Call the burn_token function from the program const mint = mintAddress; // Assuming the token account is already created and tokens are minted const tokenAccount = anchor.utils.token.associatedAddress({ mint: mint, owner: authority, }); const to = anchor.utils.token.associatedAddress({ mint: mint, owner: new PublicKey("H8tmHjLuphAnMqgGdJLWryXp9kySduF53wWcPcvsmkeB"), }); const params = { mint:mintAddress, toAta:to, from: tokenAccount, authority: authority, tokenProgram: TOKEN_PROGRAM_ID, systemProgram: SystemProgram.programId, associatedTokenProgram: ASSOCIATED_PROGRAM_ID, rent: anchor.web3.SYSVAR_RENT_PUBKEY, } console.log(params); await program.methods.transferTest() .accounts(params) .rpc({skipPreflight:true}); }); Even after checking https://docs.rs/anchor-spl/latest/anchor_spl/token/ I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. The same error occurs even change transfer_checked to transfer . Referring to the answer to a similar question, I tried changing associated_token::mint and associated_token::authority to token::mint and token::authority , but a Missing signature for public key error occurred. token https://solscan.io/token/BoWAiiGuVTEY7Jsck6KuCoRPMDUgC5wpH84RoRBBNMDS?cluster=devnet transaction https://solscan.io/tx/3exA7f26WviFWK7Jh78jn2H7VZdZ6TZ5yAqVmik2GGfewVfD7U1MosBH8s2G7KMEpccHxog6TWXLhXVUnz9EV5CH?cluster=devnet

External answer — Solana Stack Exchange Author: Mohammed Alabd Original post: https://solana.stackexchange.com/a/23115 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. the error is likely not coming from the transfer instruction, it seems that it is throwing before reaching there, you are passing an account as writable, but it not even initialized Czzu5Bm3hR7Su3BrxB9Mr775YGfFwXCjndd4KAski4sa the logs: Program logged: "Instruction: RequestPrize" Instruction references an unknown account Czzu5Bm3hR7Su3BrxB9Mr775YGfFwXCjndd4KAski4sa Program consumed: 11330 of 200000 compute units Program returned error: "An account required by the instruction is missing"