Using Penumbra on the web

Using Penumbra on the web

Penumbra's web tooling is designed to support a decentralized ecosystem of frontends. This allows different frontends to focus on different user profiles and ensures that no single frontend deployment or codebase has control over users' access to the protocol.

Penumbra wallets like Prax (opens in a new tab) sync, scan, decrypt, and locally index user data. When users connect to a frontend, the wallet acts as a "personal RPC", granting that frontend access to the user's private data. Prax is the first browser wallet for Penumbra, and is open-source software that runs entirely on your computer.

This chapter has guides on using Prax together with a Penumbra frontend to perform various actions:

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