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# How to Speed Up or Cancel a Pending Transaction

When you submit a transaction on Binance Smart Chain, Polygon Chain or even Ethereum, your gas price is a bid to the network to process your transaction sooner. Which means that a higher gas results in a faster transaction.

If you submit a transaction with a low gas price, it may be possible you can find your transaction taking a very long time to process! This happens also in times of massive congestion, when the "normal" gas price is too low to carry a transaction through.

In this case, you can try one of the options below:

* Wait until the network is willing to process transactions at this price;
* If you haven't done so already, click that button that says **Speed Up (1)**. This will let you re-submit the same transaction, but with a higher gas fee that should allow the transaction to be processed faster.
* If the previous options does not work and if you haven't done this already: cancel the transaction by simply selecting **Cancel (2)**. Please note, a cancellation can only be attempted if the transaction is still **pending** on the network. 

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For more information, see the official [Metamask documentation](https://metamask.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015489251-How-to-Speed-Up-or-Cancel-a-Pending-Transaction#:~:text=To%20cancel%20the%20transaction%2C%20simply,refer%20to%20Eth%20Gas%20Station).