diff --git a/packages/sdk/src/types.ts b/packages/sdk/src/types.ts
index c751d5cfa..24ba60377 100644
--- a/packages/sdk/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/sdk/src/types.ts
@@ -1845,3 +1845,22 @@ export type HealthCheckResponse =
           isHealthy: false;
           message?: string;
       };
+
+/**
+ * Type representing an item which is included in a block, such as account transactions, chain updates or deployments of new credentials.
+ */
+export type BlockItem =
+    | {
+          kind: BlockItemKind.AccountTransactionKind;
+          transaction: {
+              accountTransaction: AccountTransaction;
+              signatures: AccountTransactionSignature;
+          };
+      }
+    | {
+          kind: BlockItemKind.CredentialDeploymentKind;
+          transaction: {
+              credential: TypedCredentialDeployment;
+              expiry: number;
+          };
+      };
diff --git a/packages/sdk/src/wasm/deserialization.ts b/packages/sdk/src/wasm/deserialization.ts
index 20d9fc9dc..2ca3d65bd 100644
--- a/packages/sdk/src/wasm/deserialization.ts
+++ b/packages/sdk/src/wasm/deserialization.ts
@@ -4,12 +4,7 @@ import {
     deserializeUint8,
 } from '../deserialization.js';
 import { Cursor } from '../deserializationHelpers.js';
-import {
-    AccountTransaction,
-    AccountTransactionSignature,
-    BlockItemKind,
-    TypedCredentialDeployment,
-} from '../types.js';
+import { BlockItem, BlockItemKind } from '../types.js';
 
 function deserializeCredentialDeployment(serializedDeployment: Cursor) {
     const raw = wasm.deserializeCredentialDeployment(
@@ -27,22 +22,6 @@ function deserializeCredentialDeployment(serializedDeployment: Cursor) {
     }
 }
 
-export type BlockItem =
-    | {
-          kind: BlockItemKind.AccountTransactionKind;
-          transaction: {
-              accountTransaction: AccountTransaction;
-              signatures: AccountTransactionSignature;
-          };
-      }
-    | {
-          kind: BlockItemKind.CredentialDeploymentKind;
-          transaction: {
-              credential: TypedCredentialDeployment;
-              expiry: number;
-          };
-      };
-
 /**
  * Deserializes a transaction, from the binary format used to send it to the node, back into an js object.
  * @param serializedTransaction A buffer containing the binary transaction. It is expected to start with the version and blockItemKind.
diff --git a/packages/sdk/src/wasm/index.ts b/packages/sdk/src/wasm/index.ts
index 4b2fe0ef2..16a688cb1 100644
--- a/packages/sdk/src/wasm/index.ts
+++ b/packages/sdk/src/wasm/index.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ export {
     serializeCredentialDeploymentTransactionForSubmission,
     serializeCredentialDeploymentPayload,
 } from './serialization.js';
-export { deserializeTransaction, BlockItem } from './deserialization.js';
+export { deserializeTransaction } from './deserialization.js';
 export { generateBakerKeys } from './accountHelpers.js';
 export * from './HdWallet.js';
 export * from './identity.js';