diff --git a/.changeset/poor-news-compete.md b/.changeset/poor-news-compete.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b4f145279a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/poor-news-compete.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@thirdweb-dev/sdk": patch
+---
+
+Catch gas estimate errors in gasless tx
diff --git a/packages/sdk/src/core/classes/contract-wrapper.ts b/packages/sdk/src/core/classes/contract-wrapper.ts
index 61db4d58ead..db343f7c475 100644
--- a/packages/sdk/src/core/classes/contract-wrapper.ts
+++ b/packages/sdk/src/core/classes/contract-wrapper.ts
@@ -434,14 +434,19 @@ export class ContractWrapper<
       args as any,
     );
 
-    const gasEstimate = await (this.writeContract.estimateGas as any)[fn](
-      ...args,
-    );
-    let gas = gasEstimate.mul(2);
+    let gas = BigNumber.from(0);
+    try {
+      const gasEstimate = await (this.readContract.estimateGas as any)[fn](
+        ...args,
+      );
+      gas = gasEstimate.mul(2);
+    } catch (e) {
+      // ignore
+    }
 
     // in some cases WalletConnect doesn't properly gives an estimate for how much gas it would actually use.
     // as a fix, we're setting it to a high arbitrary number (500k) as the gas limit that should cover for most function calls.
-    if (gasEstimate.lt(50000)) {
+    if (gas.lt(100000)) {
       gas = BigNumber.from(500000);
     }