Cannot send EIP-1559 transaction even when forcing type: 2

[agro1986]

Expected behavior

Can send EIP-1559 tx

Actual behavior

Legacy tx sent

Steps to reproduce the behavior

These are the versions in package.json

"web3": "^1.5.2"
"@truffle/hdwallet-provider": "^1.5.0"

This is how I try to create an EIP-1559 tx:

1. Doesn't specify anything related to gas

web3.eth.sendTransaction({
        from: account,
        to: toAccount,
        value: sendAmount,
    })

2. Specify tx type and various fee per gas settings:

web3.eth.sendTransaction({
        from: account,
        to: toAccount,
        value: sendAmount,
        type: 2,
        maxFeePerGas: gasPrice,
        maxPriorityFeePerGas: tip,
    })

Both result the same (legacy tx)

Logs

https://rinkeby.etherscan.io/tx/0x9eeb2345d0d1453896e15eaa8743b74ba44a3a7c9864c66ba49569e990488dc7

Environment

docker (node:14.17.4-alpine3.11), sending tx on rinkeby testnet

[spacesailor24]

Hi there, thank you for bringing this to our attention. Could you provide a test repo for us to use for debugging? Seems like it might be related to @truffle/hdwallet-provider

[spacesailor24]

Hi again, I was able to submit a type: 0x2 transaction on Rinkeby using

web3.eth.sendTransaction({
        from: '0xEe29eDBD1b938175181DCe9E0D818a1c54793525',
        to: '0xEe29eDBD1b938175181DCe9E0D818a1c54793525',
        value: '0x1',
        gasLimit: 21000
    })

Could you provide a code example, otherwise I'm going to have to close this as I cannot reproduce

[agro1986]

@spacesailor24 Thanks for the reply. I wrote a minimal repo where you can test it:

https://github.com/agro1986/web3-eip1599-test

Best regards

[cryptobrokering]

Hi there,

I have a very similar issue when sending a raw transaction with upfront signing through web3.eth.accounts.signTransaction(tx, private_key)

The problem seems to be occurring during the signing, and I cannot find the hex value of the maxPriorityFeePerGas in the signed transaction.

My input to signTransaction looks like the following:

        let tx = {
            from: '0x...',
            to: '0x...',
            value: Web3.utils.toHex(eth_value_in_wei),
            maxFeePerGas: Web3.utils.toHex(gas_price),
            maxPriorityFeePerGas:  Web3.utils.toHex(priority_gas_price),
            gas: Web3.utils.toHex(gas_limit),
            nonce: Web3.utils.toHex(tx_count),
            type: '0x2',
            data: data
        }

Am I doing something wrong or is it an issue with web3js and if so, is there a workaround?

[bbelly]

repost

[nazarhussain]

I tried with the given sample repo and code below.

web3.eth.sendTransaction({
    from: account,
    to: zeroAddress,
    value: new web3.utils.BN(1),
    type: 2,
    maxFeePerGas: new web3.utils.BN(2),
    maxPriorityFeePerGas: new web3.utils.BN(1),
  })

Tried couple of transactions and all were created as legacy (0).

https://rinkeby.etherscan.io/tx/0x71cfdf047e20406a253692b7c94dfc83262e1e5d1ce2b8f47213f60434f9315c
https://rinkeby.etherscan.io/tx/0x371e7cc0b6f6fd12c1c55582a9f781fdcb80215501339978f1500229ba559b18
https://rinkeby.etherscan.io/tx/0xbe03e0fcb521b7580a71729d005ec07aed95c6aafe339f3f6f74f72e35e9b112

Also tried the offline web3.eth.accounts.signTransaction(tx, private_key) but same behaviour.

This issue definitely need to look further details, I suspect somewhere before signing the type is mutated.

[cryptobrokering]

I also tried around a bit and found out that for my case, using hex values as input for signTransaction were somehow causing the issue. When using decimals, it is working.

[nazarhussain]

I was able to figure out the problem. Its the issue with the @truffle/hdwallet-provider. That package is using [email protected] to serialize the transactions during signTransaction which does not support EIP-1559 yet. In web3 we are using @ethereumjs/tx which had added support for EIP-1559.

To verify that here is a script which is using @truffle/hdwallet-provider just to get privateKey from mnemonic and using web3 builtin signTransaction internally to serialize the transaction.

const walletUrl = 'wss://eth-rinkeby.alchemyapi.io/v2/[your-key]';
const walletMnemonic = 'xxxxxxx';

const Web3 = require('web3');
const HDWalletProvider = require('@truffle/hdwallet-provider');

async function start() {
  const wsProvider = new Web3.providers.WebsocketProvider(walletUrl);
  const web3 = new Web3(wsProvider);

  // Get the Private Key 
  const walletProvider = new HDWalletProvider(walletMnemonic, wsProvider);
  const account = walletProvider.addresses[0]
  const privateKey = walletProvider.wallets[account].privateKey;

  // Generate account and add to local wallet 
  web3.eth.accounts.wallet.add(web3.eth.accounts.privateKeyToAccount('0x' + privateKey.toString('hex'))); 


  await web3.eth.sendTransaction({
    from: account,
    to: zeroAddress,
    value: new web3.utils.BN(2),
    type: 2,
    maxFeePerGas: new web3.utils.BN('300000000'),
    maxPriorityFeePerGas: new web3.utils.BN('2000000000'),
    gas: 21000,
  }).on('transactionHash', function(txHash) {
    console.log('https://rinkeby.etherscan.io/tx/' + txHash);
    console.log('transactionHash');
  }).on('receipt', function(receipt){
    console.log('Received...', receipt);
    process.exit(0);
  });
}

start();

Here is a ref tx created with above script.

There is already an issue on Ganache to provide support for EIP-1559. I believe once that issue is been worked out all the related packages will also provide support for EIP-1559 including @truffle/hdwallet-provider. Till then feel free to use above code as inspiration for a workaround.

@agro1986 I am closing the issue for now, If you observe same problem with some other findings feel free to re-open the issue.