When network activity is high, transactions can take longer than expected to confirm. In some cases, you can manually increase the network fee to improve your chances of a faster confirmation.
Manual fee adjustments are only available for native token transfers on Ethereum, Polygon, and Bitcoin, such as ETH, POL, or BTC. App interactions, non-native token transfers such as USDC, NFT transactions, and all transactions on Solana, Sui, Base, and Monad do not support manual fee adjustments.
Note: Increasing the gas fee does not guarantee faster confirmation, but it can improve your chances, especially during periods of high congestion.
Speed up a transaction before sending it
If you want to speed up a transaction before sending, follow these steps:
- In Phantom, on the transaction preview screen, select Network fee.
- Choose a speed:
- Fast: Higher fee and the fastest confirmation.
- Average: Balanced speed and cost (default).
- Slow: Lower fee and slower confirmation.
- Select Save.
Speed up a pending transaction
If you already sent a transaction and it is still pending, you can try to speed it up by following these steps:
- In Phantom, go to Recent Activity (clock icon).
- Select the pending transaction.
- Select Speed up.
- Confirm to resend the transaction with a higher network fee.