# 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. ![](/files/-MaZqlYHQnVmwvNvQJtL) 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). --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://autofarm.gitbook.io/autofarm-network/how-tos/defi-beginners-guide/how-to-speed-up-or-cancel-a-pending-transaction.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.