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Say I need a user to approve a contract with an erc20 token balance and then the contract can execute it's function after. Typically, I would have to do an approve transaction with a nonce of 1 and then call the contract after that with a nonce of 2.

This means that we have to wait at least two blocks before the total of the two transactions complete.

How can I send these transactions at the same time, and included in the same block while still ensuring the ordering of their execution?

It might look something like this:

await sendTransactions([
    token.approve(myContract, toWei('1000000')), // Gets executed in the same block before someFunction
    myContract.someFunction() // Gets executed in the same block after approve function
]);
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    This means that we have to wait at least two blocks before the total of the two transactions complete - you're assuming that each transaction gets executed in a new block, which is wrong. – goodvibration Sep 30 '20 at 10:16
  • In function sendTransactions, just add await at the beginning of each line. – goodvibration Sep 30 '20 at 10:17
  • Ok. I read somewhere that the wallets will wait for a new block before broadcasting a transaction with a higher nonce, if one with a lower nonce already exists. – Dylan Kerler Sep 30 '20 at 11:00
  • @DylanKerler That may be true, as I just tried to broadcast a txn with nonce 44 (I'm currently on nonce 42 so my next should be nonce 43) and etherescan said broadcast succeeded but it was no where to be found in any mempool which implies it just gets rejected almost immediately after; so it seems you do have to broadcast the correct lower nonce first, but what goodvibration is saying is that they can both still end up being mined into the same block (and in order if you look at the 'index' property of each txn in that one block). – Albert Renshaw Oct 07 '20 at 19:08

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Do you know the MultiSender app?

It allows for multiple Ether and ERC 20 token transactions to be bundled in one transaction. It's open-source on Github rstormsf/multisender in case you want to review the logic.

There's also a more detailled write-up on Medium: MultiSender — Send Ether and Ethereum Tokens to Multiple Ethereum Addresses In A Single Transaction.

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I always use this Token MultiSender (BlockBucket) just because the fees are 0.01 ETH compared to the other app which is 0.09 ETH per transaction.

Looked at Etherscan just to check it's all legit and all looks good: https://etherscan.io/address/0x67AbAe94137ffa43D1A08A6DFfA2268764cDF36A#readContract

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