ENS offchain lookup
Shivan Kaul Sahib edited this page Mar 2, 2023
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Brave supports transparent reading of ENS records from offchain storages for resolving wallet addresses in the Brave Wallet panel and resolving IPFS links in the omnibox. Offchain storage is set up by the domain owner by providing a custom resolver smart contract to ENS, which could be a third party. If you enable offchain lookup, a third party could see the .eth domain you're trying to visit but they won't be able to see other domains you visit.
Allow ENS offchain lookup preference is controlled in Settings in the Web3 section, under Web3 Domains. Possible values are:
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Ask. This is the default option which Brave would ask whether to enable ENS offchain lookup when visiting such .eth domains. -
Disabled. Completely disable ENS offchain lookup. Records for such ENS domains will not be resolved by Brave. -
Enabled. Enables ENS offchain lookup. Brave will fetch data from offchain gateways specified by domain owners in their resolver smart contracts.
Note that this option will only appear if Resolve Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain names is set to be Enabled.