diff --git a/packages/cosmwasm-stargate/src/cosmwasmclient.ts b/packages/cosmwasm-stargate/src/cosmwasmclient.ts
index 5e04ba05..165dc9d3 100644
--- a/packages/cosmwasm-stargate/src/cosmwasmclient.ts
+++ b/packages/cosmwasm-stargate/src/cosmwasmclient.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/naming-convention */
-import { Contract, ContractCodeHistoryEntry, JsonObject } from "@cosmjs/cosmwasm-launchpad";
+import { Contract, ContractCodeHistoryEntry } from "@cosmjs/cosmwasm-launchpad";
 import { fromAscii, toHex } from "@cosmjs/encoding";
 import { Uint53 } from "@cosmjs/math";
 import {
@@ -27,13 +27,17 @@ import { assert, sleep } from "@cosmjs/utils";
 import { CodeInfoResponse } from "cosmjs-types/cosmwasm/wasm/v1beta1/query";
 import { ContractCodeHistoryOperationType } from "cosmjs-types/cosmwasm/wasm/v1beta1/types";
 
-import { setupWasmExtension, WasmExtension } from "./queries";
+import { JsonObject, setupWasmExtension, WasmExtension } from "./queries";
 
 // Those types can be copied over to allow them to evolve independently of @cosmjs/cosmwasm-launchpad.
 // For now just re-export them such that they can be imported via @cosmjs/cosmwasm-stargate.
 export {
   Contract, // returned by CosmWasmClient.getContract
   ContractCodeHistoryEntry, // returned by CosmWasmClient.getContractCodeHistory
+};
+
+// Re-exports that belong to public CosmWasmClient interfaces
+export {
   JsonObject, // returned by CosmWasmClient.queryContractSmart
 };
 
diff --git a/packages/cosmwasm-stargate/src/queries/index.ts b/packages/cosmwasm-stargate/src/queries/index.ts
index c0692523..c33027c9 100644
--- a/packages/cosmwasm-stargate/src/queries/index.ts
+++ b/packages/cosmwasm-stargate/src/queries/index.ts
@@ -1 +1 @@
-export { setupWasmExtension, WasmExtension } from "./wasm";
+export { setupWasmExtension, JsonObject, WasmExtension } from "./wasm";
diff --git a/packages/cosmwasm-stargate/src/queries/wasm.ts b/packages/cosmwasm-stargate/src/queries/wasm.ts
index 579ab1d0..229a0cb8 100644
--- a/packages/cosmwasm-stargate/src/queries/wasm.ts
+++ b/packages/cosmwasm-stargate/src/queries/wasm.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 /* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/naming-convention */
-import { JsonObject } from "@cosmjs/cosmwasm-launchpad";
 import { fromUtf8, toAscii } from "@cosmjs/encoding";
 import { createPagination, createProtobufRpcClient, QueryClient } from "@cosmjs/stargate";
 import {
@@ -14,6 +13,14 @@ import {
 } from "cosmjs-types/cosmwasm/wasm/v1beta1/query";
 import Long from "long";
 
+/**
+ * An object containing a parsed JSON document. The result of JSON.parse().
+ * This doesn't provide any type safety over `any` but expresses intent in the code.
+ *
+ * This type is returned by `queryContractSmart`.
+ */
+export type JsonObject = any;
+
 export interface WasmExtension {
   readonly wasm: {
     readonly listCodeInfo: (paginationKey?: Uint8Array) => Promise<QueryCodesResponse>;