From 32ae1a9ada38ed7486cda5675a96eaeee15de050 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laurent Turek <laurent.turek@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:20:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [WORKAROUND] Change default account type to ed25519 as
 encryption/decryption does not seem to work...

---
 packages/extension-ui/src/util/defaultType.ts | 2 +-
 packages/extension/src/background.ts          | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/extension-ui/src/util/defaultType.ts b/packages/extension-ui/src/util/defaultType.ts
index bf3c39e28a..b4b55d150c 100644
--- a/packages/extension-ui/src/util/defaultType.ts
+++ b/packages/extension-ui/src/util/defaultType.ts
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 
 import { KeypairType } from '@polkadot/util-crypto/types';
 
-export const DEFAULT_TYPE = 'sr25519' as KeypairType;
+export const DEFAULT_TYPE = 'ed25519' as KeypairType;
diff --git a/packages/extension/src/background.ts b/packages/extension/src/background.ts
index a79f1d3fa3..5cd226c348 100644
--- a/packages/extension/src/background.ts
+++ b/packages/extension/src/background.ts
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ cryptoWaitReady()
     console.log('crypto initialized');
 
     // load all the keyring data
-    keyring.loadAll({ store: new AccountsStore(), type: 'sr25519' });
+    keyring.loadAll({ store: new AccountsStore(), type: 'ed25519' });
 
     console.log('initialization completed');
   })