diff --git a/packages/cardano-services/src/Asset/DbSyncAssetProvider.ts b/packages/cardano-services/src/Asset/DbSyncAssetProvider.ts
index f90e5a8c55d..5c7fd8fb994 100644
--- a/packages/cardano-services/src/Asset/DbSyncAssetProvider.ts
+++ b/packages/cardano-services/src/Asset/DbSyncAssetProvider.ts
@@ -72,8 +72,9 @@ export class DbSyncAssetProvider extends DbSyncProvider implements AssetProvider
       } catch (error) {
         if (error instanceof ProviderError && error.reason === ProviderFailure.ConnectionFailure) {
           assetInfo.tokenMetadata = undefined;
+        } else {
+          throw error;
         }
-        throw error;
       }
     }
 
diff --git a/packages/cardano-services/test/Asset/DbSyncAssetProvider.test.ts b/packages/cardano-services/test/Asset/DbSyncAssetProvider.test.ts
index d3691049b6f..cbd75315321 100644
--- a/packages/cardano-services/test/Asset/DbSyncAssetProvider.test.ts
+++ b/packages/cardano-services/test/Asset/DbSyncAssetProvider.test.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-shadow */
 import { Asset, Cardano, ProviderError, ProviderFailure } from '@cardano-sdk/core';
 import {
   CardanoTokenRegistry,
@@ -82,4 +83,20 @@ describe('DbSyncAssetProvider', () => {
       name: 'macaron cake token'
     });
   });
+
+  it('returns undefined asset token metadata if the token registry throws a network error', async () => {
+    const { tokenMetadataServerUrl, closeMock } = await mockTokenRegistry(() => ({ body: {}, code: 500 }));
+    const tokenMetadataService = new CardanoTokenRegistry({ logger }, { tokenMetadataServerUrl });
+
+    provider = new DbSyncAssetProvider({ db, logger, ntfMetadataService, tokenMetadataService });
+
+    const asset = await provider.getAsset({
+      assetId: validAssetId,
+      extraData: { tokenMetadata: true }
+    });
+
+    expect(asset.tokenMetadata).toBeUndefined();
+    tokenMetadataService.shutdown();
+    await closeMock();
+  });
 });