Transaction Error Codes

What does my transaction error code mean?

If a transaction fails, there is a codespace and error code returned. These correspond with a particular module and the defined errors within.

authz

Error Code	Message	What it means
3	expiration time of authorization should be more than current time

bank

Error Code	Message	What it means
2	no inputs to send transaction
3	no outputs to send transaction
4	sum inputs != sum outputs
5	send transactions are disabled
6	client denom metadata not found
7	invalid key

capability

Error Code	Message	What it means
2	capability name not valid
3	provided capability is nil
4	capability name already taken
5	given owner already claimed capability
6	capability not owned by module
7	capability not found
8	owners not found for capability

crisis

Error Code	Message	What it means
2	sender address is empty
3	unknown invariant

distribution

Error Code	Message	What it means
2	delegator address is empty
3	withdraw address is empty
4	validator address is empty
5	no delegation distribution info
6	no validator distribution info
7	no validator commission to withdraw
8	set withdraw address disabled
9	community pool does not have sufficient coins to distribute
10	invalid community pool spend proposal amount
11	invalid community pool spend proposal recipient
12	validator does not exist
12	delegation does not exist

evidence

Error Code	Message	What it means
2	unregistered handler for evidence type
3	invalid evidence
4	evidence does not exist
5	evidence already exists

feegrant

Error Code	Message	What it means
2	fee limit exceeded	there are not enough allowance to cover the fees
3	fee allowance expired
4	invalid duration	if the Duration is invalid or doesn't match the expiration
5	no allowance	there is no allowance for that pair
6	allowed messages are empty
7	message not allowed

gov

Error Code	Message	What it means
2	unknown proposal
3	inactive proposal
4	proposal already active
5	invalid proposal content
6	invalid proposal type
7	invalid vote option
8	invalid genesis state
9	no handler exists for proposal type

marker

Error Code	Message	What it means
2	access grant address is empty
3	invalid access type
4	access list contains duplicate entry
5	invalid marker status
6	access type not granted
7	marker not found

metadata

Error Code	Message	What it means
2	owner address is already bound to an uri
3	address does not match an existing account
4	no locator bound to address
5	uri length greater than allowed
6	No records found.
7	uri is invalid

msgfees

Error Code	Message	What it means
2	msg type is empty
3	invalid fee amount
4	fee for type already exists.
5	fee for type does not exist.
6	invalid fee proposal

name

Error Code	Message	What it means
2	no address bound to name
3	name is already bound to an address
4	value provided for name is invalid
5	segment of name is too short
6	segment of name is too long
7	name has too many segments
8	invalid account address
9	invalid name: "." is reserved

params

Error Code	Message	What it means
2	unknown subspace
3	failed to set parameter
4	submitted parameter changes are empty
5	parameter subspace is empty
6	parameter key is empty
7	parameter value is empty

sdk

Error Code	Message	What it means
2	tx parse error
3	invalid sequence	the sequence number (nonce) is incorrect for the signature
4	unauthorized
5	insufficient funds
6	unknown request
7	invalid address
8	invalid pubkey
9	unknown address
10	invalid coins
11	out of gas
12	memo too large
13	insufficient fee
14	maximum number of signatures exceeded
15	no signatures supplied
16	failed to marshal JSON bytes
17	failed to unmarshal JSON bytes
18	invalid request
19	tx already in mempool
20	mempool is full
21	tx too large
22	key not found
23	invalid account password
24	tx intended signer does not match the given signer
25	invalid gas adjustment
26	invalid height
27	invalid version
28	invalid chain-id
29	invalid type
30	tx timeout height	a tx is rejected out due to an explicitly set timeout height
31	unknown extension options
32	incorrect account sequence
33	failed packing protobuf message to Any
34	failed unpacking protobuf message from Any
35	internal logic error	defines an internal logic error, e.g. an invariant or assertion that is violated. It is a programmer error, not a user-facing error.
36	conflict	a conflict error, e.g. when two goroutines try to access the same resource and one of them fails.
37	feature not supported
38	not found	when requested entity doesn't exist in the state.
39	Internal IO error	should be used to wrap internal errors caused by external operation. Examples: not DB domain error, file writing etc...
40	error in app.toml	an error occurred if min-gas-prices field in BaseConfig is empty.
41	invalid gas limit

slashing

Error Code	Message	What it means
2	address is not associated with any known validator
3	validator does not exist for that address
4	validator still jailed; cannot be unjailed
5	validator not jailed; cannot be unjailed
6	validator has no self-delegation; cannot be unjailed
7	validator's self delegation less than minimum; cannot be unjailed
8	no validator signing info found

staking

Error Code	Message	What it means
2	empty validator address
3	validator does not exist
4	validator already exist for this operator address; must use new validator operator address
5	validator already exist for this pubkey; must use new validator pubkey
6	validator pubkey type is not supported
7	validator for this address is currently jailed
8	failed to remove validator
9	commission must be positive
10	commission cannot be more than 100%
11	commission cannot be more than the max rate
12	commission cannot be changed more than once in 24h
13	commission change rate must be positive
14	commission change rate cannot be more than the max rate
15	commission cannot be changed more than max change rate
16	validator's self delegation must be greater than their minimum self delegation
17	minimum self delegation cannot be decrease
18	empty delegator address
19	no delegation for (address, validator) tuple
20	delegator does not exist with address
21	delegator does not contain delegation
22	insufficient delegation shares
23	cannot delegate to an empty validator
24	not enough delegation shares
25	entry not mature
26	no unbonding delegation found
27	too many unbonding delegation entries for (delegator, validator) tuple
28	no redelegation found
29	cannot redelegate to the same validator
30	too few tokens to redelegate (truncates to zero tokens)
31	redelegation destination validator not found
32	redelegation to this validator already in progress; first redelegation to this validator must complete before next redelegation
33	too many redelegation entries for (delegator, src-validator, dst-validator) tuple
34	cannot delegate to validators with invalid (zero) ex-rate
35	both shares amount and shares percent provided
36	neither shares amount nor shares percent provided
37	invalid historical info
38	no historical info found
39	empty validator public key

undefined

Error Code	Message	What it means
1	internal	should never be exposed, but we reserve this code for non-specified errors
111222	panic	only set when we recover from a panic, so we know to redact potentially sensitive system info

wasm

Error Code	Message	What it means
2	create wasm contract failed	wasm code that has already been uploaded or failed
3	contract account already exists
4	instantiate wasm contract failed
5	execute wasm contract failed
6	insufficient gas
7	invalid genesis
8	not found	an entry not found in the store
9	query wasm contract failed
10	invalid CosmosMsg from the contract	we cannot process the error returned from the contract
11	migrate wasm contract failed
12	empty
13	exceeds limit
14	invalid	content that is invalid in this context
15	duplicate	content that exists
16	max transfer channels	maximum number of ibc channels reached
17	unsupported for this contract
18	pinning contract failed
19	unpinning contract failed
20	unknown message from the contract	by a message handler to show that it is not responsible for this message type
21	invalid event	if an attribute/event from the contract is invalid
22	no such contract	if an address does not belong to a contract (just for registration)