How to Sign with a PDA's Account

Program derived addresses (PDA) can be used to have accounts owned by programs that can sign. This is useful if you want a program to own a token account and you want the program to transfer tokens from one account to another.

sign-with-pda.rs

use solana_program::{
    account_info::next_account_info, account_info::AccountInfo, entrypoint,
    entrypoint::ProgramResult, program::invoke_signed, pubkey::Pubkey, system_instruction,
};
 
entrypoint!(process_instruction);
 
fn process_instruction(
    _program_id: &Pubkey,
    accounts: &[AccountInfo],
    instruction_data: &[u8],
) -> ProgramResult {
    let account_info_iter = &mut accounts.iter();
 
    let pda_account_info = next_account_info(account_info_iter)?;
    let to_account_info = next_account_info(account_info_iter)?;
    let system_program_account_info = next_account_info(account_info_iter)?;
 
    // pass bump seed for saving compute budget
    let bump_seed = instruction_data[0];
 
    invoke_signed(
        &system_instruction::transfer(
            &pda_account_info.key,
            &to_account_info.key,
            100_000_000, // 0.1 SOL
        ),
        &[
            pda_account_info.clone(),
            to_account_info.clone(),
            system_program_account_info.clone(),
        ],
        &[&[b"escrow", &[bump_seed]]],
    )?;
 
    Ok(())
}