How can I access the transaction nonce?

[NiotechK]

The documentation says that I can use transaction.nonce to retrieve the nonce.
"let nonce = provider.transaction.nonce" throws the error Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'nonce')
How can I access the nonce?

fyi: i am using hardhat

[ricmoo]

That’s what on a transaction object. There is no transaction object on a Provider.

Are you trying to get the current nonce of an account? If so, you can use provider.getTransactionCount(address).

[NiotechK]

hey, thanks for the answer. if i now execute transactions with different addresses the nonce is always "1". wouldn't the nonce have to be increased each time?

[ricmoo]

Every transaction requires a nonce which is equally to the number of transaction that account has ever sent. So the first transaction an account ever sends will have a nonce if 0. The second transaction will have a nonce of 1.

The nonce depends on the account and must be increased for each transaction, but a transaction cannot be mined prior to a transaction from the same account with a lower nonce, so the nonce also guarantees the order that transactions will occur.