How to Check Transaction Nonce on Ethereum

This seems like a fairly major issue for developing server-side logic / an API that sends transactions that (I think) remains unresolved after nearly 3 years:

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Does anyone have a decent solution for sending many transactions from the same address, potentially near concurrently? The best solutions in the thread are just finding ways to try and manually track it, which ultimately desynchronizes when something fails and there is a nonce gap.

I did a send transaction for an ERC223 token, but when I searched the tx hash in etherscan it just gave me that message saying sorry it can't find it. I don't have a record of the transaction hash. I understand that if I resend the transaction with the same nonce and much higher gas it can go through; however I didn't note the nonce when I sent the original transaction. Is there a way to figure out what the nonce was? Otherwise it seems I could be waiting many days for the original transaction to go through. I tried to do another send transaction from the same address (different token) and of course it's stuck in limbo too. Would the nonce of my account have incremented by one after the first in-limbo transaction? Would it have incremented again with the second in-limbo transaction?

Books and people are talking about that finding the nonce is very hard but checking it is very simple. But how do you actually check it?

If i look at the infomation of the most recent block, what steps do i have to do to actually determine for myself if the given nonce is correct or not?

You can make a good guess at which nonce was used.

The nonce is a sequential number and nearly every wallet, website or application checks your previous transactions to get your nonce. They simply do last nonce + 1.

Use etherscan to find your last confirmed transaction and check the nonce of that transaction. (Lets call that lastNonce).
Any transaction that you tried to send would likely have used lastNonce+1.

Your second attempted transaction could have either used lastNonce +1 or +2. An application like Metamask would have kept track of your nonce and would end up with +2. If you opened a new page of a site like MyEtherWallet it probably used the same +1 again because it didn't know about the previous one.

mycrypto just announced they've solved this (about time, kinda crazy they could leave it this long with so many failed transactions due to bad nonce tracking across different servers) and presumably theyre open source so go check out what they did.

we solved it at funfair a year or so ago, but we're not yet open source, so cant help you right now.

For example I have this transaction which is pending because there are lower nonce transactions which were stuck. Is there a way to find out such information that the transaction is gonna pending due to another transaction? Etherscan API only tells me whether transaction is confirmed or not

Don't use eth_getTransactionCount. Sounds like you're completely managing the accounts, so perhaps you can internally track the nonce?

That said, you're still going to have to pay a lot of attention that these transactions are being broadcast and processed properly. Say nonce 23 isn't being broadcast on the network for whatever reason, nonce 24 is just going to sit there in the txpool until it's GCed.

And perhaps nonce >23 may even fail as out of order. Going by memory, I can't remember exactly where that comes into play. Maybe if a miner picks up a 24 before 23? Whatever, don't trust my word for it and test.

You'll also have to make sure you aren't going over an account's limit for the txpool of the node. I think go-ethereum defaults to 16 per account, but whoever is running the node can configure that to whatever. To be sure of this limit, you'll probably need to run your own node.

Right now my ledgers X and S works perfectly with MEW so I cannot replicate your problem. I have two suggestions that might help you though.

Try being in the ETH app on the ledger before opening mew

Try to slide the Windows pop. Up aside and ignoring it.

Just click on your account address. You can see all your 30+ pending transactions here

You need to manually change your nonce to 1 and replace your transaction with a higher gas fee, or plan to wait months and hope it goes through

Obviously I don't know your exact use-case, but a good pattern, if the transactions are logically concurrent, rather than sequential, is to put them through a proxy contract.

e.g. suppose you want to make 1000 token transfers.

1. Create a proxy contract which holds the tokens you want to transfer.
2. The proxy contract should have a function transferTokens which can be called by any of 1000 external addresses that you own.
3. Submit a single transaction from each of the 1000 external addresses to call transferTokens on your proxy contract with the appropriate parameters.

You can make it more sophisticated by allowing any address to call the proxy contract provided it includes some signed data from an authorised address. The tricky thing with this approach is that you need to make sure your "executor" addresses have a small amount of ETH to pay for gas, but this is quite easy to automate as a one-off process (or something you repeat every now and again when the executors are running low on ETH).

So are you running the latest Eth app on the Ledger and latest firmware? This was an issue for a while there but had been resolved. Have you tried the MyCrypto desktop app?

First of all, in a brief rant, I would like to point out that guy is an overconfident fool. My post listed very specific and unusual factors that applied to my issue, so I assume he may have not read it and thought I was making another "AAH! my transaction is stuck" post. But even that assumption already gives him the benefit of the doubt in that he even knew solution to the cliche problem, given that he failed to provide any suggestion of help to fix my issue.

Now, here are some links to previous posts that I made:

This is the first post I made, which was intended to be posted in this subreddit, but somehow it ended up in the bitcoin sub instead and I didn't realize until much later, and by that point the questions I asked in it were no longer relevant, so the next post was made from scratch.

This is the next post I made, which was successfully posted in this subreddit. It may be hard to see at first, but if you look closely, you might be able to tell that I was really stressed when I wrote it (/s). That said, it probably wasn't communicated as well as it could've been. (There was more than enough information for that guy to be a little less retarded about it though.)

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(Yes, I used that word; I have high-functioning autism, which means I am clinically retarded, and as such I inherently have the "retarded pass". If you're mad at me just for saying that word, you need to go and reconstruct the methodologies you use to perceive right and wrong. (For example, imagine a white guy angrily criticizing a black guy for using the "N" word. That word never wasn't an insult, but still, you can't deny the irony!) Additionally, I think it's retarded to enforce non-use of a word that works perfectly fine, just because it can be used as an insult. Would you prefer "mentally underdeveloped"? I mean the same thing either way, and in both ways I still insulted the dude.)

"Please just use the word retarded; Anything else is just impractical and unnecessary."

-sincerely, a retard.

Finally, here is my current situation:

I have found the settings on how to select a transaction's nonce, both in MEW and MetaMask, also the Brave Browser's wallet, but that's really just an integration of MetaMask. The problem now, is that every time I try to connect my nano x to them, I then receive a popup from windows asking me to connect the key, which goes away by opening the Ethereum app on the nano, but it is then replaced with the text "touch your security key" which a request that the ledger doesn't have any way of doing. Usually, the popup will eventually disappear, so you have to press "connect wallet" to try again, but that just gives you the insatiable popups again. On rare occasion, the "Touch the Key" popup will flash for a few seconds, and actually connect, finally showing the account address selection screen (one of the times though, I couldn't select an account anyway, for some reason...), but even once you access the account, the popups will appear AGAIN and that will never work, because the only way you *might* get the flashing thing is if you clear any data you can think of that could possibly have something to do with the browser, which then might give you a 1/10 chance to create that glitch, which means the device will need to be reconnected.

I've been dealing with this crap for a week now, and I feel deader than I ever have inside except for maybe some really low periods in the years when I hadn't started taking any medicine for MDD. It's a different kind of dead this time, I guess because I'm not quite drowning in existential hopelessness this time.

That said, I would GREATLY appreciate it if anyone could help me solve the issue. I just need to be able to use the account. I don't have any room to care about the ether in the transaction anymore; I just simply want to be able to use the stupid thing. Ledger, can you PLEASE(PLEASE!!!********) include a nonce-configuration interface in the next update, PLEASE!!!!!!!!???!!!!!!!!???

For now, I just need something that will work. Does someone know of any "external wallet" or management tool that the Ledger Nano X should be able to connect to, relatively easily? Or is there a known solution?? Please, I just need to get on with my life...

Edit: I forgot to insert the links to my other posts... anyway they're functional now.

Solution: This string of responses found below

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