diff --git a/apps/wakucanary/wakucanary.nim b/apps/wakucanary/wakucanary.nim
index 318b40629..914d76e70 100644
--- a/apps/wakucanary/wakucanary.nim
+++ b/apps/wakucanary/wakucanary.nim
@@ -202,13 +202,6 @@ proc main(rng: ref HmacDrbgContext): Future[int] {.async.} =
 
   var enrBuilder = EnrBuilder.init(nodeKey)
 
-  let relayShards = RelayShards.init(conf.clusterId, conf.shards).valueOr:
-    error "Relay shards initialization failed", error = error
-    return 1
-  enrBuilder.withWakuRelaySharding(relayShards).isOkOr:
-    error "Building ENR with relay sharding failed", error = error
-    return 1
-
   let recordRes = enrBuilder.build()
   let record =
     if recordRes.isErr():
@@ -233,8 +226,6 @@ proc main(rng: ref HmacDrbgContext): Future[int] {.async.} =
   )
 
   let node = builder.build().tryGet()
-  node.mountMetadata(conf.clusterId).isOkOr:
-    error "failed to mount waku metadata protocol: ", err = error
 
   if conf.ping:
     try:
diff --git a/waku/waku_rln_relay/group_manager/on_chain/group_manager.nim b/waku/waku_rln_relay/group_manager/on_chain/group_manager.nim
index 1871601e5..ec6b048a6 100644
--- a/waku/waku_rln_relay/group_manager/on_chain/group_manager.nim
+++ b/waku/waku_rln_relay/group_manager/on_chain/group_manager.nim
@@ -525,6 +525,8 @@ method init*(g: OnchainGroupManager): Future[GroupManagerResult[void]] {.async.}
   g.rlnRelayMaxMessageLimit =
     cast[uint64](await wakuRlnContract.maxMembershipRateLimit().call())
 
+  asyncSpawn g.trackRootChanges()
+
   proc onDisconnect() {.async.} =
     error "Ethereum client disconnected"
     var newEthRpc: Web3