diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 25cf17816a9..4262bdebdc7 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3868,6 +3868,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures",
  "gear-core",
  "gear-core-errors",
+ "gear-runtime-primitives",
  "gmeta",
  "gsdk",
  "hex",
@@ -3887,7 +3888,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "sp-io",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
- "vara-runtime",
  "wasmi 0.30.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "which",
  "whoami",
diff --git a/gcli/Cargo.toml b/gcli/Cargo.toml
index 5ae78c79334..3bb0dcb1b35 100644
--- a/gcli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/gcli/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ reqwest = { workspace = true, default-features = false, features = [ "json", "ru
 etc.workspace = true
 sp-io = { workspace = true, features = [ "std" ] }
 sp-core = { workspace = true, features = [ "std" ] }
+runtime-primitives.workspace = true
 # TODO: use wasmi from workspace (#3214)
 wasmi = { version = "0.30.0", features = ["std"] }
 
@@ -51,7 +52,6 @@ demo-messager.workspace = true
 demo-new-meta.workspace = true
 demo-waiter.workspace = true
 gsdk = { workspace = true, features = ["testing"] }
-vara-runtime = { workspace = true, features = [ "std", "dev" ] }
 
 [build-dependencies]
 which.workspace = true
diff --git a/gcli/src/app.rs b/gcli/src/app.rs
index 0946db8cff2..7075d13b86d 100644
--- a/gcli/src/app.rs
+++ b/gcli/src/app.rs
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ pub trait App: Parser + Sync {
     /// and verbose level.
     async fn run(&self) -> Result<()> {
         color_eyre::install()?;
-        sp_core::crypto::set_default_ss58_version(crate::VARA_SS58_PREFIX.into());
+        sp_core::crypto::set_default_ss58_version(runtime_primitives::VARA_SS58_PREFIX.into());
 
         let name = Self::command().get_name().to_string();
         let filter = match self.verbose() {