diff --git a/src/tools/polymarket/withdraw.ts b/src/tools/polymarket/withdraw.ts
index 3965aaf..6ce82bc 100644
--- a/src/tools/polymarket/withdraw.ts
+++ b/src/tools/polymarket/withdraw.ts
@@ -346,8 +346,14 @@ export async function withdrawFunds(input: WithdrawInput): Promise<ToolResult> {
       const account = getPolymarketAccount();
       const wallet = createWalletClient({ account, chain: polygon, transport: http(POLYGON_WRITE_RPC_URL) });
       // franklin-local: hash the locally signed bytes and persist before any broadcast.
-      const nonce = await getPublicClient().getTransactionCount({ address: account.address, blockTag: "pending" });
-      const request = await wallet.prepareTransactionRequest({ to: PUSD_COLLATERAL as Hex, data, chain: polygon, account, nonce });
+      // franklin-local: the nonce comes from the WRITE endpoint
+      // (prepareTransactionRequest asks the wallet's own transport), not the
+      // fallback public readers, which are separate providers with their own
+      // pending pools. A load-balanced write URL can still answer from a
+      // different backend than the broadcast; safety does not rest on this —
+      // the bytes are persisted first and a retry re-sends only those.
+      const request = await wallet.prepareTransactionRequest({ to: PUSD_COLLATERAL as Hex, data, chain: polygon, account });
+      const nonce = request.nonce;
       const serializedTransaction = await wallet.signTransaction(request);
       txHash = keccak256(serializedTransaction);
       saveState({ pendingWithdraw: { txHash, nonce, from: account.address, serializedTransaction } });
diff --git a/test/withdraw.local.mjs b/test/withdraw.local.mjs
index 6bfc4ff..b107b73 100644
--- a/test/withdraw.local.mjs
+++ b/test/withdraw.local.mjs
@@ -62,12 +62,12 @@ beforeEach(() => {
     calls: [],
     publicClient: {
       readContract: async ({ address }) => { h.calls.push('balance'); return address === PUSD_COLLATERAL ? 10_000_000n : 0n; },
-      getTransactionCount: async args => { h.calls.push('nonce'); assert.equal(args.blockTag, 'pending'); return 7; },
+      getTransactionCount: async () => { h.calls.push('reader-nonce'); return 3; },
       getTransactionReceipt: async () => { h.calls.push('receipt'); throw new Error('receipt unavailable'); },
       waitForTransactionReceipt: async () => ({ status: 'success' }),
     },
     wallet: {
-      prepareTransactionRequest: async request => { h.calls.push('prepare'); assert.equal(request.nonce, 7); return request; },
+      prepareTransactionRequest: async request => { h.calls.push('prepare'); assert.equal(request.nonce, undefined, 'the write transport fills the nonce'); return { ...request, nonce: 7 }; },
       signTransaction: async request => { h.calls.push('sign'); assert.equal(request.nonce, 7); assert.equal(loadState().pendingWithdraw, undefined); return signed; },
       sendRawTransaction: async ({ serializedTransaction }) => {
         h.calls.push('broadcast');
@@ -200,7 +200,8 @@ test('EOA persists hash, nonce and sender before raw broadcast and clears on rec
   process.env.POLYMARKET_SIG_TYPE = '0';
   const result = await withdrawFunds({ amount_usd: 2, confirm: true });
   assert.ok(!result.isError, result.text);
-  assert.deepEqual(h.calls.slice(-4), ['nonce', 'prepare', 'sign', 'broadcast']);
+  assert.deepEqual(h.calls.slice(-3), ['prepare', 'sign', 'broadcast']);
+  assert.ok(!h.calls.includes('reader-nonce'), 'the nonce never comes from the public reader');
   assert.equal(result.structured.transactionHash, txHash);
   assert.equal(loadState().pendingWithdraw, undefined);
 });
@@ -257,7 +258,7 @@ test('EOA guard never infers "dropped" from an advanced nonce plus an unknown ha
 });
 
 test('a retry that resolves the earlier withdrawal ends there and signs nothing new', async () => {
-  const fresh = ['nonce', 'prepare', 'sign', 'broadcast', 'bridge', 'submit', 'batch-sign', 'balance'];
+  const fresh = ['reader-nonce', 'prepare', 'sign', 'broadcast', 'bridge', 'submit', 'batch-sign', 'balance'];
   const cases = [
     ['eoa success', () => { saveState({ pendingWithdraw: { txHash, nonce: 7, from: agent, serializedTransaction: signed } });
       h.publicClient.getTransactionReceipt = async () => ({ status: 'success' }); }, /SETTLED/],