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How long does an ETH transaction stay pending before it gets dropped?

How much time has gone by? If it is long you can do this as mentioned here: https://kb.myetherwallet.com/en/transactions/checking-or-replacing-a-tx-after-sending/

Read all the points carefully before proceeding with this since it is matter of funds and I am also not confident since I also haven't tried this.

It usually takes under one minute for me but it also depends on how much gas and gwei you are using for the transaction, if you are using low values then the transaction can take more time for faster transactions use recommended gas and gwei settings.

Yes usually for almost even for bitcoin too. Etheruem needs gas for its transaction, so where it is not enough as you want to manage your fees, it also delays you. Meanwhile, also be sure you are sending to etheruem wallet too. :o

It should be a few hours, just leave it alone and it will be confirmed automatically but that also depends on the traffic on the blockchain too. Sometimes i tried to create a new tx to the same address with higher fees to push my old tx that used very small fees that didn't meet the standard and that may push your old tx to the block priority

I had a lot of stuck eth transactions with etherdelta and forkdelta. Mainly because of setting fees at minimum possible or network troubles. Usually, it takes few hours to get dropped, sometimes it got confirmed. But i didn't try to send pending eth. Something like cpfp with bitcoin, but i don't think it works.

Its depending in how much gas that you're using, before you send ethereum or other erc20 token, go check for gas first at https://ethgasstation.info there are visible information for safe/minimum gas and fastest gas. Its can be changed anytime. May it can be help you.

It'll stay pending until it gets dropped from the mempool, after which the balance will be returned to your originating wallet.

How long this will take is anybody's guess, but anywhere from a few days to a month should be accurate. It really depends on the current network load and the number of transactions currently in the mempool.

It can take a couple of hours, depending on the network congestions for the particular day, always you ensure you check you gas requirement each time before you initiate a transaction, I personally use slightly above recommended value just to get some preference when the condition changes/

Your transaction will stay in ETH's mempool as long as a node is broadcasting it.

So no one can accurately tells when it will be drop, obviously, if you pay low gas fee it might get stuck a week or more before it gets drop by the mempool. Maybe this medium article can also help.

https://medium.com/@jgm.orinoco/releasing-stuck-ethereum-transactions-1390149f297d

I have seen 24 hours pending time. Didn't know that eth network was badly conjested and my gas was low so it took miners hours to process it. Since then I always check the ethgasstation.info before proceeding

If it does not fail and it is still processing, it will continue to be on pending until the network reduces the transaction fee.
Since you knew you were in haste to get your transaction executed, you should not have used a lower gas fee. The network usually suggests the gwei to be used and most times, it also suggests the gas limit. You can decide to use the one in the middle, in order not to wait too long.

The best way to do before sending an ETH or making any ethereum transaction is to check first the suggestion or recommended transaction fee, you can check it here: https://ethgasstation.info/
I also don't understand what OP said by the term dropped, does it mean to be sent or to become invalid/cancelled?

You may want to add some gas and speed up the transactions if you use metamask you can see the expected time by the fee you chose for a transaction.

You must try to push your transaction if that was getting pending more than 24 hours.
If your transaction didn't get priority by the block and then when there was a new transaction that has been putting more fees than your transaction, the block will actually confirmed the new tx rather than your old tx.

I have never experienced a delayed or failed transaction, if the cost to send is too small it will usually be confirmed in a long time and it does not fail, maybe you can just wait a few days and always check your transaction

When Sending transaction On ETH network is best to be mindful of the gas your are using some platforms at time might use lower gas which will slow transaction down so just be aware of it and increase if necessary

To avoid situations like this especially when it is very urgent you should try to increase your gas to send, I usually don't use the calculated gas especially when I need a quick transaction, a little more gas won't hurt you rather it will save you the headache for worrying your transaction is still pending for hours, just follow the guide to speed up transaction given.

Still depend if the network has really clogged or the traffics of transaction has piles up even with higher cost of gas would still result to delay. Same goes to other smart contract, but eth network still is the fastest as recorded with so many users using it. Others are more faster but their users are not comparable with eth, so we can visualize why sometime traders or users experienced a high percentage of delay also depends on the active miners of that network.

depends on how much fee is used in the transaction and don't forget to check the fee recommendation at https://ethgasstation.info/ (https://ethgasstation.info/).
If your fee is bigger than ethgasstation recommendation, your transaction is more fast. It also depends on the opposite.

If you dont' want to get stuck you should set Gas at fast level. It's cheap, a fast transaction costs only about $0.1 and your transaction will be executed within a minute, usually in just 20 seconds if you set  Gas at fast level.

It won't take too long usually a few hours, your transaction may have been dropped now. You should try again with a more reasonable gas fee.

A second to an hour I guess, it depends on the transaction fee, you want fast transfer? Then increase the transaction fee higher, if you want slow speed they reduce the fee, it's that easy, wallets like coinomi or trust wallet supports transaction fee manual configuration

You have to tell what percentage of the gas is determined if you reduce the standard transaction gas costs, the smaller the value of the gas installed, the longer the transaction will be confirmed. Confirmation will be processed immediately if the gas cost goes down with the fee of the gas installed.

I think that eth transactions depends on the gas or gwei that we put. If we put a low gas fee, i think day would be considered because of the traffic of many transactions. And if you use a higher gas fee, i think it would just take a minutes.

The length of time depends on the value of the amount of gas that we click, if it is probable that the transaction process is  fast if small it make saveral time to waith. This process can take longer if the internet network has an effect if it crashes again when you make transaction.

The length of time for Ethereum transaction is not fixed. The speed of the transaction depends on the set transaction gas fees. A higher transaction gas fees means a faster transaction speed. Setting it to moderate will yield a moderate transaction speed.

It depends on the gas level you choose for that transaction. If you want a fast transfer, the fee can be up to $ 1 - $ 2. But if you want to trade about 5-10 minutes, the fee is about $ 0.15. so it is up to you, the Ethereum network can always meet your needs. Please be assured. ;)

Depending on the GAS you use, the higher the gas the faster your transaction is processed
You can see https://ethgasstation.info/ for a reference on how much gas you need to use

its depends on how much gwei/gas you used.. and also if the blockchain is clogged then it will take a long time.. you can leave the transaction it will arrive in your wallet

The other day I had the longest ETH transaction I've ever had in my life, it almost reaches to 1 day before it confirmed and success. It was the time when the GAS doesn't stay at its normal rate, it keeps rising every hour and when the new transaction has been made, they picked that first and leave my transaction to be mined next time. You only have this kind of problem when there are lots of users who currently send eth and most of the time this scenario would happen if there is some spike in the price of ETH.

always use the cost according to the estimates on the website, so that transactions are quickly confirmed, sometimes many
 people ignore the problem so much that they have to wait for days

If it takes too long, you should increase the gas to speed up instead of waiting.
Waiting for ETH transactions to be dropped out could take even days. I like ETH but when there are spikes in the network, you need to check and update the gas each time to able to make a transaction.