diff --git a/src/wallet/wallet.cpp b/src/wallet/wallet.cpp
index 098f7990ad..8b636c41a2 100644
--- a/src/wallet/wallet.cpp
+++ b/src/wallet/wallet.cpp
@@ -1410,22 +1410,14 @@ void CWallet::BlockConnected(const CBlock& block, const std::vector<CTransaction
     const uint256& block_hash = block.GetHash();
     auto locked_chain = chain().lock();
     LOCK(cs_wallet);
-    // TODO: Temporarily ensure that mempool removals are notified before
-    // connected transactions.  This shouldn't matter, but the abandoned
-    // state of transactions in our wallet is currently cleared when we
-    // receive another notification and there is a race condition where
-    // notification of a connected conflict might cause an outside process
-    // to abandon a transaction and then have it inadvertently cleared by
-    // the notification that the conflicted transaction was evicted.
 
-    for (const CTransactionRef& ptx : vtxConflicted) {
-        SyncTransaction(ptx, CWalletTx::Status::CONFLICTED, {} /* block hash */, 0 /* position in block */);
-        TransactionRemovedFromMempool(ptx);
-    }
     for (size_t i = 0; i < block.vtx.size(); i++) {
         SyncTransaction(block.vtx[i], CWalletTx::Status::CONFIRMED, block_hash, i);
         TransactionRemovedFromMempool(block.vtx[i]);
     }
+    for (const CTransactionRef& ptx : vtxConflicted) {
+        TransactionRemovedFromMempool(ptx);
+    }
 
     m_last_block_processed = block_hash;
 }