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So I am using Wagmi, which uses Ethers.js under the hood. I have to approve the router address first in order to buy the other token. It works when I use the exact or slightly greater amount than what I send thru UI textbox. But it fails if I modify (into MetaMask popup textbox) the value close to my max balance.

For example. I have above 9000 mockBUSD and wanted to approve 50 of them for the router. If I use the default (50) or 500 mockBUSD (in the MetaMask popup textbox) transaction goes without any issue, and in the next step I can buy another token that is paired with mockBUSD. But if I modify the value to 6000 in the MetaMask popup, the transaction fails.

Here is txn that succeed - https://testnet.bscscan.com/tx/0x39deda5d7f7f0a91ce0481169d379eb7ba50c2d2827252d90986a3a972d23c48 (approved 2000 mockBUSD)

Here is another that fails - https://testnet.bscscan.com/tx/0x3820c27ac48d0be7a23d6cf884cc24dfea261e1639abb29c3061961016d3c264 (approved 6000 mockBUSD)

And I tried several times, and the outcomes were similar. What could be the reason for this weird issue?

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  • You ever get around to figuring this out? I have this problem intermittently and can confirm it is due to different allowance amounts - did a wide range of different tests with different amounts and it does consistently fail but can not yet in the root cause (also using wagmi/ethers)
    – Ricardo Pedroni
    Apr 14 at 20:46

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Your error states: "Warning! Error encountered during contract execution [out of gas]." So it is not going through because you run out of gas.

If a transaction exhausts its gas, it implies that the gas limit specified for the transaction is insufficient to cover the total gas required. Typically, wallets can make a relatively precise estimation of the gas needed for a transaction. However, if the estimated gas falls short, you may raise it manually. To ensure adequate gas coverage for most contract interactions, setting the gas limit to 60,000 should suffice. Any excess gas will be refunded to you.

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  • I am sure the error is due to something else, because I have enough gas. The txn fails only when I enter a larger amount (say more than 70% of my total balance).
    – sanjay dev
    Mar 22 at 3:58
  • Have you tried giving it more gas?
    – PSS
    Mar 22 at 13:47
  • I suggest you give it 60,000 gas and post a link to that failed transaction. I’d like to see the error, when you give it more gas, please 🙏🏻
    – PSS
    Mar 22 at 13:51
  • Well. I spent whole day digging it. And it has very weird error. So it works if I try thru testnet directly. There is no cap limit. As soon as I try it from my dapp, error is shown for bigger amount and no error for smaller amount. And again, if I use dapp and change the gas fees it does work. One more point, this is happening to only this token, not with the other one. So this is kind of very weird error for me.
    – sanjay dev
    Mar 22 at 16:15
  • I guess posting your code for others to look at could be your next option.
    – PSS
    Mar 22 at 21:29
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I likewise encountered this problem gas estimation for ERC20 approve calls on Ethereum mainnet. While I couldn't pinpoint why the estimations failed (most cases the gas limit was off by 20 to 30 gas units) I queried around 500 blocks to see how much gas approval cost for 10 different tokens (USDC, DAI, WETH, LINK, etc.).

From there, the max gas cost I found was 60311 so I hardcoded my dApp to use 62500 for some wiggle room - hopefully this number helps.

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