diff --git a/src/lib/resolver-web.js b/src/lib/resolver-web.js
index 008cef8..4660e0b 100644
--- a/src/lib/resolver-web.js
+++ b/src/lib/resolver-web.js
@@ -443,6 +443,14 @@ export async function resolveName(input, opts = {}) {
   return index.get(name) ?? null;
 }
 
+// Open one electrum connection against the pool and return the raw client, so
+// callers can do ad-hoc queries or drive a delta-refresh loop (fetch just the
+// tx bodies they don't already have). Same connection strategy buildIndex uses
+// — try hostname first, fall back to pinned-IP+SNI when directIP is on.
+export async function connectElectrum({ electrum = CHIPNET_ELECTRUM, WebSocket: WS, directIP = false } = {}) {
+  return connectAny(electrum, WS, { directIP });
+}
+
 // ---- on-chain electrum discovery (step 2) --------------------------------
 // The name ELECTRUM_LIST_NAME carries the current server pool in an "el" record:
 // a space-separated list of tokens, each "wss://host:port" or "wss://host:port|ip"