everytime you do a two step approve->transfer flow in a mini app you should ask yourself “is there a better way to do this?” — most of the time there is

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i am a simple man i request the user do a transfer from an address to another directly off the erc20 contract then i check the metadata of that tx on my backend then i call an ownerOnly function to record it on my contract

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Permit2, yes.I can say so confidently because it's a standard provider.

Privy, maybe? https://docs.privy.io/recipes/farcaster/frames

is this possible with the mini app ethProvider?

👆 this is the correct answer. A gasless signature is the way to go, regardless of how smart your account is. If you want to abstract this away with @privy 's apis that's okay (where the wallet generates a signature without user interaction), but the permit2 ecosystem is the optimal mix of security and UX.