Having "Insufficient funds" in require message causing "insufficient funds for intrinsic transaction cost" unrelated error to be thrown

[ishayhil]

Reproduce steps

run (on hardhat network)

require(1 > 2, Insufficient funds)

and receive
Error: insufficient funds for intrinsic transaction cost
instead of
Insufficient funds

For some reason, if the require message contains "insufficient funds", the "insufficient funds for intrinsic transaction cost" pops.

[ta5een]

Hi, I'm also getting this unusual error! Seems that if the reason string contains "Insufficient funds" anywhere, Hardhat treats it specially. I don't think that's supposed to happen, otherwise the Hardhat documentation would have mentioned this behaviour somewhere.

[narghev]

Any news on this?

[fvictorio]

It's possible that this is caused by the latest version(s) of ethers. Anyone running into this: can you try downgrading ethers and trying again? Thanks.

[fvictorio]

Hmm, it is caused by ethers but it's not a recent change:

https://github.com/ethers-io/ethers.js/blob/ef1b28e958b50cea7ff44da43b3c5ff054e4b483/packages/providers/src.ts/json-rpc-provider.ts#L80

Sadly I can't think of a workaround right now.

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[fvictorio]

I believe this is a problem in ethers, so I submitted an issue there: ethers-io/ethers.js#2954. Closing this one for now.

[AliNawaz-777]

Insufficient balance
Is any help when I try to run the testcase then get the error Insufficient balance'

[jason-gigastar]

I just ran into this myself:

Broken:     require(..., 'PREFIX: Insufficient funds');
Resolved 1: require(..., 'PREFIX: Insufficient Xfunds');
Resolved 2: require(..., 'PREFIX: Insufficient Balance');