From 8f69e399fae8916dd0db397b31464ece55a2e63c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Murdoch <187813+davidmurdoch@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 17:24:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(forking): ignore txs that fail when running the block in
 traceTransaction (#929)

---
 .../ethereum/src/helpers/run-transactions.ts         | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/chains/ethereum/ethereum/src/helpers/run-transactions.ts b/src/chains/ethereum/ethereum/src/helpers/run-transactions.ts
index 16250d9b2e..a9d8864c1c 100644
--- a/src/chains/ethereum/ethereum/src/helpers/run-transactions.ts
+++ b/src/chains/ethereum/ethereum/src/helpers/run-transactions.ts
@@ -17,9 +17,13 @@ export async function runTransactions(
   block: RuntimeBlock
 ) {
   for (let i = 0, l = transactions.length; i < l; i++) {
-    await vm.runTx({
-      tx: transactions[i] as any,
-      block: block as any
-    });
+    await vm
+      .runTx({
+        tx: transactions[i] as any,
+        block: block as any
+      })
+      // we ignore transactions that error because we just want to _run_ these,
+      // transactions just to update the blockchain's state
+      .catch(() => {});
   }
 }