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How does the Transaction Manager work in ENS Explorer?

The Transaction Manager's four states — not started, waiting, confirmed, rejected — plus multi-step flows and the Syncing changes banner.

Note: The ENS App and ENS Explorer are both currently on Sepolia testnet. Behaviour and available features may change before mainnet.

Anything that writes to the chain — saving records, changing a resolver, granting roles, deploying a subregistry, creating a subname — opens the Transaction Manager over the page. It lists the steps, estimates the gas, and walks you through signing.


The four states

Not started. Each step shows its estimated gas. Nothing has been sent. Click Start to begin, or close the dialog to walk away at no cost.

Waiting. The transaction is with your wallet. Sign to continue, reject to cancel. A progress bar fills as it broadcasts and confirms. On a slow network this can sit for a while.

Confirmed. The step turns to a tick with a link out to Etherscan. On the last step the button becomes Done.

Rejected. You turned it down in your wallet. Nothing was sent and you paid nothing. Try again restarts the flow.


Flows that take more than one transaction

Deploying a subregistry and deploying a new permissioned resolver each take two transactions. You sign once per step. After the first confirms, the button changes to Next — click it to send the second. Rejecting either step stops the flow there; anything already confirmed stays done.


Common questions

What's the "Syncing changes" banner after I save records?

Explorer is catching up with the chain. Your change has already landed. If a value still reads the old state a minute later, refresh the page.

I rejected by mistake — did it cost anything?

No. A rejected transaction never reaches the chain, so there's no gas to pay.

Can I close the dialog mid-flow?

Yes. Steps that already confirmed stay confirmed. Reopen the action to finish the rest.

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