diff --git a/balancer-js/examples/swaps/swapDebug.ts b/balancer-js/examples/swaps/swapDebug.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..12f35164d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/balancer-js/examples/swaps/swapDebug.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+/**
+ * Helper example to facilitate swap debugging within the SDK
+ *
+ * How to run:
+ * yarn example examples/swaps/swapDebug.ts
+ */
+import { ADDRESSES } from '@/test/lib/constants';
+import { FORK_NODES, RPC_URLS, forkSetup } from '@/test/lib/utils';
+import { BalancerSDK, Network } from '@balancer-labs/sdk';
+import { formatFixed } from '@ethersproject/bignumber';
+
+const network = Network.MAINNET;
+const rpcUrl = RPC_URLS[network];
+const sdk = new BalancerSDK({
+  network,
+  rpcUrl,
+});
+
+const tokenIn = ADDRESSES[network].BAL8020BPT;
+const tokenOut = ADDRESSES[network].auraBal;
+const amount = String(BigInt(1000e18)); // 1000 eth
+
+const { swaps } = sdk;
+const erc20Out = sdk.contracts.ERC20(tokenOut.address, sdk.provider);
+
+async function swap() {
+  const signer = sdk.provider.getSigner();
+  const account = await signer.getAddress();
+
+  await forkSetup(
+    signer,
+    [tokenIn.address],
+    [tokenIn.slot],
+    [amount],
+    FORK_NODES[network]
+  );
+
+  // Finding a trading route rely on on-chain data.
+  // fetchPools will fetch the current data from the subgraph.
+  // Let's fetch just 5 pools with highest liquidity of tokenOut.
+  await swaps.fetchPools({
+    first: 5,
+    where: {
+      swapEnabled: {
+        eq: true,
+      },
+      tokensList: {
+        contains: [tokenOut.address],
+      },
+    },
+    orderBy: 'totalLiquidity',
+    orderDirection: 'desc',
+  });
+
+  // Set exectution deadline to 60 seconds from now
+  const deadline = String(Math.ceil(Date.now() / 1000) + 60);
+
+  // Avoid getting rekt by setting low slippage from expected amounts out, 10 bsp = 0.1%
+  const maxSlippage = 10;
+
+  // Building the route payload
+  const payload = await swaps.buildRouteExactIn(
+    account,
+    account,
+    tokenIn.address,
+    tokenOut.address,
+    amount,
+    {
+      maxSlippage,
+      deadline,
+    }
+  );
+
+  // Extract parameters required for sendTransaction
+  const { to, data, value } = payload;
+
+  // Execution with ethers.js
+  try {
+    const balanceBefore = await erc20Out.balanceOf(account);
+
+    await (
+      await signer.sendTransaction({
+        to,
+        data,
+        value,
+        gasLimit: 8e6,
+      })
+    ).wait();
+
+    // check delta
+    const balanceAfter = await erc20Out.balanceOf(account);
+
+    console.log(
+      `Amount of tokenOut received: ${formatFixed(
+        balanceAfter.sub(balanceBefore),
+        tokenOut.decimals
+      )}`
+    );
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.log(err);
+  }
+}
+
+swap();
diff --git a/balancer-js/src/modules/sor/pool-data/subgraphPoolDataService.ts b/balancer-js/src/modules/sor/pool-data/subgraphPoolDataService.ts
index 676691f9e..3cd48f793 100644
--- a/balancer-js/src/modules/sor/pool-data/subgraphPoolDataService.ts
+++ b/balancer-js/src/modules/sor/pool-data/subgraphPoolDataService.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ import {
   SubgraphArgsFormatter,
 } from '@/lib/graphql/args-builder';
 
-import { isSameAddress } from '@/lib/utils';
 import { Logger } from '@/lib/utils/logger';
 
 // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
@@ -76,8 +75,8 @@ export class SubgraphPoolDataService implements PoolDataService {
 
     const filteredPools = pools.filter((p) => {
       if (!this.network.poolsToIgnore) return true;
-      const index = this.network.poolsToIgnore.findIndex((addr) =>
-        isSameAddress(addr, p.address)
+      const index = this.network.poolsToIgnore.findIndex(
+        (id) => id.toLowerCase() === p.id.toLowerCase()
       );
       return index === -1;
     });