diff --git a/nodes/nomos-node/Cargo.toml b/nodes/nomos-node/Cargo.toml
index 4167f34b..1f1cf2cb 100644
--- a/nodes/nomos-node/Cargo.toml
+++ b/nodes/nomos-node/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ edition = "2021"
 [dependencies]
 async-trait = "0.1"
 blake2 = "0.10"
-bincode = "2.0.0-rc.2"
 bytes = "1.3"
 clap = { version = "4", features = ["derive", "env"] }
 chrono = "0.4"
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@ overwatch-rs = { git = "https://github.com/logos-co/Overwatch", rev = "2f70806"
 overwatch-derive = { git = "https://github.com/logos-co/Overwatch", rev = "ac28d01" }
 tracing = "0.1"
 multiaddr = "0.18"
-nomos-core = { path = "../../nomos-core/chain-defs"}
+nomos-core = { path = "../../nomos-core/chain-defs" }
 nomos-da-sampling = { path = "../../nomos-services/data-availability/sampling", features = ["rocksdb-backend"] }
 nomos-da-verifier = { path = "../../nomos-services/data-availability/verifier", features = ["rocksdb-backend", "libp2p"] }
 nomos-da-indexer = { path = "../../nomos-services/data-availability/indexer", features = ["rocksdb-backend"] }
diff --git a/nomos-core/chain-defs/src/wire.rs b/nomos-core/chain-defs/src/wire.rs
index 7b42a0df..30764d26 100644
--- a/nomos-core/chain-defs/src/wire.rs
+++ b/nomos-core/chain-defs/src/wire.rs
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ use serde::de::DeserializeOwned;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 
 pub type Error = bincode::Error;
+pub type ErrorKind = bincode::ErrorKind;
+
 // type composition is cool but also makes naming types a bit akward
 type BincodeOptions = WithOtherTrailing<
     WithOtherIntEncoding<
diff --git a/nomos-da/network/core/Cargo.toml b/nomos-da/network/core/Cargo.toml
index e6bd331e..a059e291 100644
--- a/nomos-da/network/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/nomos-da/network/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
 [dependencies]
-bincode = "1.3"
 libp2p = { version = "0.53", features = ["macros", "tokio", "quic"] }
 libp2p-stream = "0.1.0-alpha"
 futures = "0.3"
diff --git a/nomos-da/network/core/src/protocols/dispersal/executor/behaviour.rs b/nomos-da/network/core/src/protocols/dispersal/executor/behaviour.rs
index 233d2f98..a2078964 100644
--- a/nomos-da/network/core/src/protocols/dispersal/executor/behaviour.rs
+++ b/nomos-da/network/core/src/protocols/dispersal/executor/behaviour.rs
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ use crate::protocols::clone_deserialize_error;
 use crate::SubnetworkId;
 use kzgrs_backend::common::blob::DaBlob;
 use nomos_core::da::BlobId;
+use nomos_core::wire;
 use nomos_da_messages::common::Blob;
 use nomos_da_messages::dispersal;
 use nomos_da_messages::packing::{pack_to_writer, unpack_from_reader};
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ pub enum DispersalError {
     },
     #[error("Could not serialized: {error}")]
     Serialization {
-        error: bincode::Error,
+        error: wire::Error,
         blob_id: BlobId,
         subnetwork_id: SubnetworkId,
     },
diff --git a/nomos-da/network/core/src/protocols/mod.rs b/nomos-da/network/core/src/protocols/mod.rs
index 547535ae..e5b5d2ca 100644
--- a/nomos-da/network/core/src/protocols/mod.rs
+++ b/nomos-da/network/core/src/protocols/mod.rs
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 pub mod dispersal;
 pub mod replication;
 pub mod sampling;
+use nomos_core::wire;
 
-use bincode::ErrorKind;
-
-fn clone_deserialize_error(error: &bincode::Error) -> bincode::Error {
+fn clone_deserialize_error(error: &wire::Error) -> wire::Error {
+    use wire::ErrorKind;
     Box::new(match error.as_ref() {
         ErrorKind::Io(error) => ErrorKind::Io(std::io::Error::new(error.kind(), error.to_string())),
         ErrorKind::InvalidUtf8Encoding(error) => ErrorKind::InvalidUtf8Encoding(*error),
diff --git a/nomos-da/network/core/src/protocols/sampling/behaviour.rs b/nomos-da/network/core/src/protocols/sampling/behaviour.rs
index ff22e9d0..43e8827a 100644
--- a/nomos-da/network/core/src/protocols/sampling/behaviour.rs
+++ b/nomos-da/network/core/src/protocols/sampling/behaviour.rs
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ use libp2p::swarm::{
 use libp2p::{Multiaddr, PeerId, Stream};
 use libp2p_stream::{Control, IncomingStreams, OpenStreamError};
 use nomos_core::da::BlobId;
+use nomos_core::wire;
 use nomos_da_messages::packing::{pack_to_writer, unpack_from_reader};
 use nomos_da_messages::{common, sampling};
 use subnetworks_assignations::MembershipHandler;
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ pub enum SamplingError {
         blob_id: BlobId,
         subnetwork_id: SubnetworkId,
         peer_id: PeerId,
-        error: bincode::Error,
+        error: wire::Error,
     },
     #[error("Error sending request: {request:?}")]
     RequestChannel {
diff --git a/nomos-services/mempool/Cargo.toml b/nomos-services/mempool/Cargo.toml
index b0b4051e..bcf04416 100644
--- a/nomos-services/mempool/Cargo.toml
+++ b/nomos-services/mempool/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ edition = "2021"
 
 [dependencies]
 async-trait = "0.1"
-bincode = { version = "2.0.0-rc.2", features = ["serde"] }
 futures = "0.3"
 linked-hash-map = { version = "0.5.6", optional = true }
 nomos-network = { path = "../network" }