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# Cancel or speed up a pending transaction

Open an eligible pending transaction in Activity.

## Speed Up

**Speed Up** keeps the original nonce and transaction intent but proposes a
higher fee. The review retains the original site/action, simulation, clear
signing, value, and asset context so you can verify what is being resubmitted.

## Cancel

**Cancel** creates a higher-fee replacement at the same nonce whose purpose is
to consume that nonce before the original transaction confirms. It appears as
a WalletChan-authored **Cancel Transaction** row.

Cancellation is an attempt, not a guarantee. If the original is mined first,
it cannot be reversed.

## Eligibility

Replacement controls are available for still-pending ordinary native-gas
transactions signed by private-key, seed-phrase, or Ledger accounts.

They are not shown for Bankr actions, view-only accounts, Safe proposals,
fee-token UserOperations, force-inclusion routes, or a transaction already
superseded by another replacement.

## Fees and nonce

The replacement nonce is locked to the original. Choose a fee above the
network/replacement floor. An underpriced value shows an inline error and is
not submitted.

## Dropped vs failed

When one transaction in a nonce family wins, another may become **Dropped**.
Dropped means displaced/not included; **Failed** means a definite execution or
submission failure.

Resetting WalletChan's nonce cache does not cancel an onchain pending
transaction. Use [Data and history settings](/settings/data-and-history) only
to recover from a local cache conflict.