diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f0a92ff..5d13c55 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 1.0.0rc8 /2025-01-30
+* Minor bug fixes
+
 ## 1.0.0rc7 /2025-01-29
 
 ## What's Changed
diff --git a/async_substrate_interface/async_substrate.py b/async_substrate_interface/async_substrate.py
index 01889ac..767f966 100644
--- a/async_substrate_interface/async_substrate.py
+++ b/async_substrate_interface/async_substrate.py
@@ -2493,7 +2493,7 @@ async def runtime_call(
         method: str,
         params: Optional[Union[list, dict]] = None,
         block_hash: Optional[str] = None,
-    ) -> ScaleType:
+    ) -> ScaleObj:
         """
         Calls a runtime API method
 
@@ -2628,7 +2628,7 @@ async def get_constant(
         constant_name: str,
         block_hash: Optional[str] = None,
         reuse_block_hash: bool = False,
-    ) -> Optional["ScaleType"]:
+    ) -> Optional[ScaleObj]:
         """
         Returns the decoded `ScaleType` object of the constant for given module name, call function name and block_hash
         (or chaintip if block_hash is omitted)
diff --git a/async_substrate_interface/sync_substrate.py b/async_substrate_interface/sync_substrate.py
index c018a18..3c3d772 100644
--- a/async_substrate_interface/sync_substrate.py
+++ b/async_substrate_interface/sync_substrate.py
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ def decode_scale(
         type_string: str,
         scale_bytes: bytes,
         return_scale_obj=False,
-    ) -> Any:
+    ) -> Union[ScaleObj, Any]:
         """
         Helper function to decode arbitrary SCALE-bytes (e.g. 0x02000000) according to given RUST type_string
         (e.g. BlockNumber). The relevant versioning information of the type (if defined) will be applied if block_hash
@@ -2334,7 +2334,7 @@ def get_constant(
         constant_name: str,
         block_hash: Optional[str] = None,
         reuse_block_hash: bool = False,
-    ) -> Optional["ScaleType"]:
+    ) -> Optional[ScaleObj]:
         """
         Returns the decoded `ScaleType` object of the constant for given module name, call function name and block_hash
         (or chaintip if block_hash is omitted)
diff --git a/async_substrate_interface/types.py b/async_substrate_interface/types.py
index a2237f3..b4c38ed 100644
--- a/async_substrate_interface/types.py
+++ b/async_substrate_interface/types.py
@@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ def _encode_scale(self, type_string, value: Any) -> bytes:
                         result += account  # Already encoded
                     else:
                         result += bytes.fromhex(
-                            ss58_decode(value, SS58_FORMAT)
+                            ss58_decode(account, SS58_FORMAT)
                         )  # SS58 string
                 return result
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4d981ea..8116899 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "async-substrate-interface"
-version = "1.0.0rc7"
+version = "1.0.0rc8"
 description = "Asyncio library for interacting with substrate. Mostly API-compatible with py-substrate-interface"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = { file = "LICENSE" }