Reducing number of requests for eth_getBlockByNumber and eth_BlockNumber when using HDWalletProvider

If you’re using Truffle’s HDWalletProvider and seeing big numbers of requests made by eth_getBlockByNumber or/and eth_BlockNumber most likely this is coming from HDWalletProvider which does constant block polling.

Some suggestions below:

  1. truffle-hdwallet-provider is deprecated, try to use the current one which might be better at block polling.

In most cases it should be enough to replace:

const HDWalletProvider = require('truffle-hdwallet-provider');

with

const HDWalletProvider = require("@truffle/hdwallet-provider");

If that doesn’t help, see pollingInterval param that you can use to control it:

https://github.com/trufflesuite/truffle/tree/develop/packages/hdwallet-provider

  1. Use HDWalletProvider only where needed, eg. deploying or calling contract methods. For anything else (like sending tx) you can use either a Websocket or HTTP provider, example for HTTP:
const web3 = new Web3(new Web3.providers.HttpProvider(`https://rinkeby.infura.io/v3/<INFURA_PROJECT_ID>`));
  1. Similar posts regarding the same issue:

https://infura.discoursehosting.net/t/eth-getblockbynumber-request-call-are-so-high/1871
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64861707/infura-calls-eth-getblockbynumber-ten-times-for-each-eth-call

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