diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c2637d0ceff..1e68df2a108 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
         "jsrsasign": "^11.0.0",
         "katex": "^0.16.0",
         "lodash": "^4.17.21",
-        "matrix-js-sdk": "33.0.0",
+        "matrix-js-sdk": "github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#develop",
         "matrix-react-sdk": "github:matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#develop",
         "matrix-widget-api": "^1.3.1",
         "react": "17.0.2",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index c57c7e8eb1e..a7938c16567 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -8402,26 +8402,6 @@ 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@33.0.0:
-  version "33.0.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/matrix-js-sdk/-/matrix-js-sdk-33.0.0.tgz#556c20b4ee0b1b7f59a98d126fdce3818c6ecfc4"
-  integrity sha512-uv2Mx4j9hw1E+98wi7KUKn04+3jCaMM1BnLp7k8hkL1dQyibHTzB8evlR6idzatPChxgdTSeD+zTUesYy3i9gw==
-  dependencies:
-    "@babel/runtime" "^7.12.5"
-    "@matrix-org/matrix-sdk-crypto-wasm" "^5.0.0"
-    another-json "^0.2.0"
-    bs58 "^5.0.0"
-    content-type "^1.0.4"
-    jwt-decode "^4.0.0"
-    loglevel "^1.7.1"
-    matrix-events-sdk "0.0.1"
-    matrix-widget-api "^1.6.0"
-    oidc-client-ts "^3.0.1"
-    p-retry "4"
-    sdp-transform "^2.14.1"
-    unhomoglyph "^1.0.6"
-    uuid "9"
-
 "matrix-js-sdk@github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#develop":
   version "33.0.0"
   resolved "https://codeload.github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/tar.gz/89875b8e314288856f9736ae84ee889991c64b34"