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Discussion: BigNumber library in ethers.js not as same as the one in Web3.js ?
See original GitHub issueI got invalid bignumber when I was using getDeployTransaction
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Closing this now, but if you feel it hasn’t been resolved or want more clarification, please re-open.
The Web3 BN class is incompatible with ethers.js.
If you have a Web3 Big Number (I believe Web3 still uses it’s own custom fork of the BigDecimal?) you will need to convert it first to Hex first. If you want a ethers.js BigNumber, you can use
ethers.utils.bigNumberify(web3Value.toString(10)).