diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 1a6f26a2b7..8ff49e9cdd 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
         "jsrsasign": "^11.0.0",
         "katex": "^0.16.0",
         "lodash": "^4.17.21",
-        "matrix-js-sdk": "34.7.0",
+        "matrix-js-sdk": "github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#develop",
         "matrix-react-sdk": "github:matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#develop",
         "matrix-widget-api": "^1.8.2",
         "react": "17.0.2",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 6288e45dd5..e03b4a281e 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -8184,27 +8184,6 @@ matrix-events-sdk@0.0.1:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/matrix-events-sdk/-/matrix-events-sdk-0.0.1.tgz#c8c38911e2cb29023b0bbac8d6f32e0de2c957dd"
   integrity sha512-1QEOsXO+bhyCroIe2/A5OwaxHvBm7EsSQ46DEDn8RBIfQwN5HWBpFvyWWR4QY0KHPPnnJdI99wgRiAl7Ad5qaA==
 
-matrix-js-sdk@34.7.0:
-  version "34.7.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/matrix-js-sdk/-/matrix-js-sdk-34.7.0.tgz#243e4eacbedd98a1096135a75765756cda910b7b"
-  integrity sha512-epauE/ZwksDyadm+0vg+g1keRUo600H/b1MzDZbaIrCY9fELzq3fIWctq9IxMQE/EEPe9jjLiNDooGJT5JJ2Ag==
-  dependencies:
-    "@babel/runtime" "^7.12.5"
-    "@matrix-org/matrix-sdk-crypto-wasm" "^9.0.0"
-    "@matrix-org/olm" "3.2.15"
-    another-json "^0.2.0"
-    bs58 "^6.0.0"
-    content-type "^1.0.4"
-    jwt-decode "^4.0.0"
-    loglevel "^1.7.1"
-    matrix-events-sdk "0.0.1"
-    matrix-widget-api "^1.8.2"
-    oidc-client-ts "^3.0.1"
-    p-retry "4"
-    sdp-transform "^2.14.1"
-    unhomoglyph "^1.0.6"
-    uuid "10"
-
 "matrix-js-sdk@github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#develop":
   version "34.7.0"
   resolved "https://codeload.github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/tar.gz/b842192a3415dbe91c8a5d13ae7c0fa2b8c239ad"