The Chia blockchain has entered a new era of consistently full blocks and even often a full mempool. This is largely attributed to the recent XCHS inscriptions craze and has resulted in some users experiencing “stuck” transactions if they did not include a high enough blockchain fee.
There is a way to get a transaction unstuck by replacing the transaction in the mempool with one with a higher fee. This is called “replace by fee” and is easier said than done since there isn’t an easy wallet button to streamline this — but it will be coming soontm.
What Fee to Use?
It depends on the size of the spend bundle. For a standard transaction, a fee of at least 0.00005 XCH (50,000,000 mojos) and also meeting the below conditions will be required.
dexie provides a nice way to do this and informs you of a suggested transaction fee to use.
Using dexie’s “Bump Fee” feature
dexie released a feature that takes advantage of how spends and signatures in Chia can be aggregated. This allows *anyone* to find a pending transaction and help expedite it through by appending a higher fee. NFT creators or offer makers will find this helpful if they are motivated to ensure a pending trade goes through.
Here’s how to use the Bump Fee feature:
- Find your stuck offer (or someone else’s stuck offer) on dexie.
- Click “Bump Fee” on the offer details page.
- Create an offer for the listed amount with an appropriate network fee. Make sure to disable clawback on this offer.
- Paste in the offer contents and merge.
Visual Example of “Bump Fee” in Action
