MetaMask Transaction Nonce Explained and How to Fix Stuck Transfers

I just got hit for a ton of eth 3 meta wallets drained. Anyone heard anything or could help point me in the right direction of what to do? No idea how they accessed my funds.

When I try broadcasting a transaction on diffusion.fi (either swapping or harvesting). It seems MetaMask is consistently trying to broadcast on the nonce just below it. Can’t get any tx through due to it.

Don’t have this problem on Disperze, but guessing that might be due to it using signed messaged rather than normal Txs. Already tried removing and readding Evmos from MetaMask. Anyone any suggestion, or running into this problem too?

EDIT: It seems MetaMask has difficulties syncing up the right nonce if you use it shortly after Disperze - just wait a few minutes thereafter and it seems to be working OK again.

Hello, I was trying to explain to a friend how to use Metamask, in particular I was trying to explain him how to cancel a transaction by sending a new one with the same nonce...

Unfortunately despite having manually changed the nonce Metamask broadcasted the transaction with another one, completely ignoring the custom nonce, two times.

We had to use MyCrypto to be able to send a transaction with a nonce different from the suggested one trough Metamask.

I was aware of this bug months -years- ago but it definitely seems to be still there, can you guys confirm it?

Below are steps that allow you to overwrite a transaction you sent on the blockchain. The two main reasons you would do this is if you sent a transaction in error and want to try to cancel it before it is completed by the blockchain. The other main reason is if a transaction was not given enough gas and it is preventing you from doing any other transactions on the blockchain.

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The first thing you need to do when you have a stuck transaction in MetaMask is to see if it has been sent to the blockchain. Google "whatever network" explorer and then put your wallet address in the search bar (do not close this window, you will need it later). If the transaction shows as pending follow the below

• First, on the profile icon in the top right corner of the MetaMask window, select Settings, click on Advanced, and turn on Customize Transaction Nonce.

• Second, go to the blockchain scanner and click transaction details of the EARLIEST stuck transaction and find the nonce (you might need to click "see more" in some scanners).

Polygonscan View (same as Etherscan)

• Third, create a new transaction where you send yourself 0.00001 of the blockchains crypto (or anything, but this tends to be lowest gas). You need a transaction to overwrite the "stuck one". It can be the same transaction as the stuck one with a higher GWEI.
• Fourth, in the “custom nonce” field change it to the nonce of the earliest stuck transaction.

• Fifth, provide a custom gas amount that is more than the one in the stuck transaction and complete the transaction. This will overwrite the original transaction with the new one.

That’s for the post incase we get stuck in a transaction this will help greatly

An informative post on ? Holy hell damn! Great post OP, the first post i ever saved/bookmarked from this subreddit.

Another process that needs to be simplified before mass adoption.

Has the Customize Transaction Nonce option been removed from Metamask?

I'm using the latest version of MM and noticed it isn't in the Advanced section of the settings anymore.

I have a transaction pending on my wallet & it won't let me cancel the transaction. When I try to pay a gas fees to cancel the transaction, it says "insufficient funds" even though I have sufficient funds to cancel the transaction.

I have tried to send myself 0 eth with a nonce + 1 the nonce of the earlier pending transaction but that didn't help either. Even that transaction got stuck. Please help

Hi there so a friend of mine said he lost $66.61 usd worth of wbtc not much which is good. But just wanting clarity on how this happened.

So he just created a fresh meta mask and moved some crypto into it, he deposited wbtc into aave and made a borrow then deposited that borrow back into aave all good.

Then went to sleep next day logged in there was a transaction approval he rejected it then it popped back again he rejected it then popped up again then he approved it with out checking what it was how it got there and then 0.00063103 $66.61 of aEthWBTC got withdrawn from his deposit/supply side in aave.

Most likely gone we dont care about recovery we just want to understand how something could request something without us instigation a transaction.

Heres the transaction hash to look it up on ether scan 0xd30b484978b945d87a92353a7baacd170a95a7c4f6d22aaf9b67592cc1e64f27

I'm also having this issue.

EDIT: I figured it out. So either it doesn't work with the first transaction from a new ethereum address, OR for a custom nonce to work all other transactions before it must be confirmed. e.g. if transaction with nonce #6 is still pending, ALL transactions with nonces greater than 6 will not confirm until #6 confirms.

This feature is really important for apps that intend to send the replacement transaction themselves, perhaps they intend for the replacement to be different than the original transaction such as setting gasPrice or input.

I know you mentioned in a previous thread that letting users edit nonce would case issues. Would this be something at least an app could do? Is there an intention to support this?

MetaMask allows you to edit the nonce for any transaction, but you have to enable this advanced feature in settings.

So. I tried to transfer 0.31 ETH about 8 hours ago. I then went to sleep and woke up and it was still there. I tried to speed it up. I chose the fastest method like (~1min) - but then it still didnt do anything, so I tried to cancel it then I noticed there were 5 other transactions added all for lower amounts. I cant cancel them as its asking for 15$ fee to cancel them all.

The recent thing about cancelling: the progress bar keeps getting to nearly 100% and then dropping back to 50% ish...

What the hell is going on.

"it added" - clearly you are not in the control

SAMEEE WTF mine has been pending for 6 days its just stuck

Hi thank you so much for sharing your question 🙏 just to clarify, the option hasn't been removed with the last update, now it will appear by default once you try to perform a transaction, to find it what you need to do is click on the right top corner (the settings option you get once you are trying to do the transaction) then you will see the custom nonce option appear 😊
Remember that WE WILL NEVER SEND YOU DM TO OFFER SUPPORT REGARDING METAMASK HERE, SO PLEASE BE CAREFUL ⚠️

36 hours ago:

Yesterday I tried to borrow from AAVE, stupidly lowered GWEI to a low amount (regretting massively now for being so stupid).

Sent the transaction, after 5 hours still showed as “pending” in metamask wallet. On etherscan there is ONLY the txn hash showing and Status as “pending” and “This txn hash was found in our secondary node and should be picked up by our indexer in a short while”. I decided to wait thinking it may go through eventually.

12 hours ago:

Waited 24 hours, today still the same, no change, still pending in metamask, and because of this i cant move my other assets in the wallet.

Tried to cancel in metamask for a few times, increasing gwei manually in the cancel option.

Then…

On etherscan, when searching for the Original txn hash the page now show “Sorry we are unable to locate this Txnhash” (i saved down the etherscan link when the original transaction didnt go through yesterday).

In Metamask the transaction still shows as pending, when I clicked on “view on etherscan” a different txn hash appeared but again, the status shows as “pending” and “This txn hash was found in our secondary node and should be picked up by our indexer in a short while”.

The “From” and “To” both shows as my own wallet address, the “Value” field showing as 0 ETH

I believe this should be the cancelling ticket but it has been stuck like this for 12 hours.

Has anyone experienced the same situation before? Dont care about this transaction so much, but I need to get rid of it so I can transact my other assets in my wallet.

Please help if you can, really appreciate this 🙏