diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/fix-nats-encoding.md b/changelog/unreleased/fix-nats-encoding.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e2e6761ea6..0000000000
--- a/changelog/unreleased/fix-nats-encoding.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Bugfix: Fix nats encoding
-
-Encode nats-js-kv keys. This got lost by a dependency bump.
-
-https://github.com/cs3org/reva/pull/4842
-https://github.com/cs3org/reva/pull/4678
diff --git a/pkg/store/store.go b/pkg/store/store.go
index b18d3f5de8..0038d00580 100644
--- a/pkg/store/store.go
+++ b/pkg/store/store.go
@@ -152,7 +152,6 @@ func Create(opts ...microstore.Option) microstore.Store {
 		return natsjskv.NewStore(
 			append(opts,
 				natsjskv.NatsOptions(natsOptions), // always pass in properly initialized default nats options
-				natsjskv.EncodeKeys(),
 				natsjskv.DefaultTTL(ttl))...,
 		)
 	case TypeMemory, "mem", "": // allow existing short form and use as default