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I’ve updated the JsonRpcProvider to better support detecting unpredictable gas errors and set a list of forwardable errors for the FallbackProvider. Since a quorum indicating unpredictable gas is actually a correct response.

I’m just testing locally and will put it up soon.

It shouldn’t remove any errors, but will make errors easier to understand and more importantly reflect the detectable standard blockchain errors ethers is designed to detect. 😃

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