diff --git a/ethergo/submitter/chain_queue.go b/ethergo/submitter/chain_queue.go
index 5a5e8720ed..dc05d9defb 100644
--- a/ethergo/submitter/chain_queue.go
+++ b/ethergo/submitter/chain_queue.go
@@ -84,8 +84,14 @@ func (t *txSubmitterImpl) chainPendingQueue(parentCtx context.Context, chainID *
 	// so now, we have a list of transactions that need to be resubmitted.
 	// these are already ordered by nonce and we should have at most one per nonce, so we can just iterate through them.
 	// we need to figure out which ones are still valid, and which ones need to be bumped.
-	// once this is done, we'll be ready to submit them
-	// we're going to handle this by updating txes in place
+	// once this is done, we'll be ready to submit them.
+	// we're going to handle this by updating txes in place.
+	// note that if we do not have sufficient gas on this chain, no txes will be bumped.
+	gasBalance, err := chainClient.BalanceAt(ctx, t.signer.Address(), nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("could not get gas balance: %w", err)
+	}
+	span.SetAttributes(attribute.String("gas_balance", gasBalance.String()))
 	for i := range txes {
 		tx := txes[i]
 
@@ -94,6 +100,11 @@ func (t *txSubmitterImpl) chainPendingQueue(parentCtx context.Context, chainID *
 			continue
 		}
 
+		if tx.Cost().Cmp(gasBalance) > 0 {
+			span.SetAttributes(attribute.Bool("out_of_gas", true))
+			span.AddEvent("tx out of gas", trace.WithAttributes(txToAttributes(tx.Transaction, tx.UUID)...))
+			break
+		}
 		cq.bumpTX(gCtx, tx)
 	}
 	cq.updateOldTxStatuses(gCtx)