Receive Error: replacement fee too low even though my transaction has changed to canceled.

[colinrw]

Ethers Version

5.6.8

Search Terms

cancel transaction, replacement fee, max_priority_fee_per_gas, max_fee_per_gas

Describe the Problem

I am working on an application where I can send multiple transactions at once, but also cancel multiple transactions at once. When I try to cancel my transactions I get the error Error: replacement fee too low. I read that you need to change a few properties if you try to cancel a pending transaction. The properties I am changing are:

• nonce: keep the same nonce as the pending transaction
• data: 0x - i don't want to call the same function, since this will speed up my transaction
• value: 0 - i set this value to zero
• maxFeePerGas: - i take the maxFeePerGas from the pending transaction and add 10% extra gas to this transaction
• maxPriorityFeePerGas: - i take the maxPriorityFeePerGas from the pending transaction and add 10% extra gas to this transaction

I am using Blocknative to track the status of my transactions and my transactions go from pending > cancel > failed which is the correct workflow. The issue I am facing is that I keep getting the Error: replacement fee too low in my terminal.

Status changed to cancel, but still receive this error:

Does anyone know how I can get rid of this error in the terminal?

If you need more code snippets, please let me know! :)

Code Snippet

// Added higher gas multiplier in this example
// Adjustments for the current EIP1559 txn
            const _tx: IEIP1559 = {...eip1559txn}
            _tx.nonce = _tx.nonce 
            _tx.data = '0x' 
            _tx.value = BigNumber.from(0) 
            _tx.maxFeePerGas = multiplyBigNumber(transaction.maxFeePerGas, 1.5) 
            _tx.maxPriorityFeePerGas = multiplyBigNumber(transaction.maxPriorityFeePerGas, 1.35)

Contract ABI

No response

Errors

`Error: replacement fee too low`

Environment

Ethereum (mainnet/ropsten/rinkeby/goerli), node.js (v12 or newer)

Environment (Other)

TypeScript Electron application

[ricmoo]

This error means your higher gas price is insufficient to bribe the miners to drop your old transaction and instead mine your new one.

It could still possibly be making it in the transaction pool, especially if you are using a FallbackProvider, but you may need to increase your fees by more than 10%.

I don’t know what the current rates are; I know at one point fees had to be doubled to get the default configurations for nodes to consider broadcasting your transaction.

If you find information of current node defaults for broadcasting, please link them here. :)

[colinrw]

Hey, thanks you for the quick answer! 🙏🏼
I tried to double the maxFeePerGas and maxPriorityFeePerGas, but I still receive the same error.
Currently im using an Infura provider on the Goerli testnet. Do you think this can be an issue?

[Kunal-Khatri-1]

Increasing Gas Price and Max Gas Price Limit worked for me.

[mottled]

Thanks @Kunal-Khatri-1 , I was able to resolve it after reading your comment here