ledger-live-desktop Add support for ENS domains

[x] I have checked this feature was not yet requested.

Currently when sending a transaction no ENS domain is being resolved. Instead I'm given the error "not a valid ... address". Would love to see this dApp being implemented into Ledger Live! :-)

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What is ENS?

https://ens.domains/

Why?

Join the list of ENS-compatible wallets
Stay ahead of the competing hardware wallets
Simplify and speed up the send transaction process

Compatible coins/tokens (multi-coin)

Ethereum
Ethereum Classic
Bitcoin
Bitcoin Cash
Litecoin
XRP
Dogecoin
Monacoin

... as of 16 Apr 2020

Possible use of text records

There is this thing called text records which contains few standardized fields:

Email
URL
Avatar
Description
Notice
Keywords
vnd.twitter - aka. Twitter username
vnd.github - aka. GitHub username

I can only imagine how cool would it be to display those details while making a transaction inside the UI. A large circled avatar preview at the top, small email address below, some links (GitHub, Twitter) and a short description (maybe?). The potential is here.

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Apr 16 '20 02:04 Zaczero

Resolving ENS docs: https://docs.ens.domains/dapp-developer-guide/resolving-names

Apr 17 '20 17:04 Zaczero

This would be great! ENS is critical for mass adoption!

May 14 '20 19:05 joshgaweda

yeah, unable to send to ENS domain from ledger live is really astonishing in 2020.

Sep 05 '20 12:09 cyanlink

How would you suggest the device to securely verify the address correctly correspond to that ENS domain? It's not as trivial as it seems.

Sep 05 '20 17:09 gre

How would you suggest the device to securely verify the address correctly correspond to that ENS domain? It's not as trivial as it seems.

@gre

Okay first I assume you have the basic idea about ethereum and smart contracts. ENS system is a set of contracts (resolvers and registry and etc) that maintains the mapping record of (sub)domain and addresses and other info on the ethereum blockchain.

All Ledger Live Software has to do is to enable the ability to lookup ENS domains which can be backed by ledger proxy API, show the user the corresponding address on UI(the ledger client also need the ability to lookup for reverse record to display a human-readable ENS domain). The ledger nano device shows the address as usual so that user can check if there are MITM between ledger live and ledger nano.

If you need to make sure that the lookup result is genuine and authentic, users have to trust infura/any other ethereum gateway provider such as ledger proxy.

Sep 06 '20 14:09 cyanlink

hello! I would very much still like this feature, and I'm sad that this conversation stopped and this issue is still open :(

support for ENS will be great for adoption!!!