diff --git a/src/pages/CreateValidator.tsx b/src/pages/CreateValidator.tsx
index c131f50..70bf382 100644
--- a/src/pages/CreateValidator.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/CreateValidator.tsx
@@ -3,17 +3,14 @@ import React, { useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react'
 import { enqueueSnackbar } from 'notistack';
 import { useNavigate } from 'react-router-dom';
 
-import { MsgCreateValidatorEncodeObject } from '@cosmjs/stargate';
-import {MsgCreateValidator} from '@cerc-io/registry-sdk';
-import {  fromBase64, fromBech32, toBech32 } from '@cosmjs/encoding';
+import { MsgCreateValidator } from 'cosmjs-types/cosmos/staking/v1beta1/tx';
+import {  fromBech32, toBech32 } from '@cosmjs/encoding';
 import { LoadingButton } from '@mui/lab';
-import { encodePubkey } from '@cosmjs/proto-signing';
+import { EncodeObject, encodePubkey } from '@cosmjs/proto-signing';
 import { Registry } from '@cerc-io/registry-sdk';
 
 import { useWalletConnectContext } from '../context/WalletConnectContext'
 import { Participant } from '../types';
-import { PubKey as CosmosCryptoEd25519Pubkey } from 'cosmjs-types/cosmos/crypto/ed25519/keys';
-import { Any } from 'cosmjs-types/google/protobuf/any';
 
 const CreateValidator = () => {
   const {session, signClient} = useWalletConnectContext();
@@ -28,15 +25,6 @@ const CreateValidator = () => {
     navigate("/connect-wallet")
   }
 
-  const pubkeyProto = CosmosCryptoEd25519Pubkey.fromPartial({
-    key: fromBase64(pubkey)
-  });
-
-  const updatedPubKey = Any.fromPartial({
-    typeUrl: '/cosmos.crypto.ed25519.PubKey',
-    value: Uint8Array.from(CosmosCryptoEd25519Pubkey.encode(pubkeyProto).finish())
-  });
-
   const msgCreateValidator: MsgCreateValidator =
     useMemo(() => {
       return {
@@ -55,25 +43,28 @@ const CreateValidator = () => {
         minSelfDelegation: "1",
         delegatorAddress: cosmosAddress,
         validatorAddress: toBech32('laconicvaloper', fromBech32(cosmosAddress).data),
-        // pubkey: encodePubkey({
-        //   type: "tendermint/PubKeyEd25519",
-        //   value: pubkey,
-        // }),
-        pubkey: updatedPubKey,
+        pubkey: encodePubkey({
+          type: "tendermint/PubKeyEd25519",
+          value: pubkey,
+        }),
         value: {
           amount: process.env.REACT_APP_STAKING_AMOUNT!,
           denom: process.env.REACT_APP_LACONICD_DENOM!,
         },
       };
-    }, [cosmosAddress, updatedPubKey]);
+    }, [cosmosAddress, pubkey]);
 
-  const msgCreateValidatorEncodeObject: MsgCreateValidatorEncodeObject = {
+  // When sending a typed message value, the pubkey value type (Uint8Array) gets lost when wallet connect JSON-stringifies the tx message;
+  // resulting into a type error from the chain
+  // Workaround: Encode the tx value instead of sending a typed message directly, has to be decoded using MsgCreateValidator.fromJSON on the wallet side
+  const msgCreateValidatorEncodeObject: EncodeObject = {
     typeUrl: '/cosmos.staking.v1beta1.MsgCreateValidator',
-    value: msgCreateValidator
+    value: MsgCreateValidator.toJSON(msgCreateValidator)
+    // value: msgCreateValidator
   };
 
   const sendTransaction = async (
-    transactionMessage: MsgCreateValidatorEncodeObject
+    transactionMessage: EncodeObject
   ) => {
     try {
       setIsLoading(true);