diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5d13c55..9cdbfe2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 1.0.0rc9 /2025-01-30
+* Fixes decoding account ids
+
 ## 1.0.0rc8 /2025-01-30
 * Minor bug fixes
 
diff --git a/async_substrate_interface/async_substrate.py b/async_substrate_interface/async_substrate.py
index 767f966..efeb24b 100644
--- a/async_substrate_interface/async_substrate.py
+++ b/async_substrate_interface/async_substrate.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
     GenericCall,
     GenericExtrinsic,
     GenericRuntimeCallDefinition,
-    ss58_decode,
+    ss58_encode,
 )
 from websockets.asyncio.client import connect
 from websockets.exceptions import ConnectionClosed
@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ async def decode_scale(
         else:
             if type_string == "scale_info::0":  # Is an AccountId
                 # Decode AccountId bytes to SS58 address
-                return bytes.fromhex(ss58_decode(scale_bytes, SS58_FORMAT))
+                return ss58_encode(scale_bytes, SS58_FORMAT)
             else:
                 await self._wait_for_registry(_attempt, _retries)
                 obj = decode_by_type_string(type_string, self.registry, scale_bytes)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8116899..f2f4c9e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "async-substrate-interface"
-version = "1.0.0rc8"
+version = "1.0.0rc9"
 description = "Asyncio library for interacting with substrate. Mostly API-compatible with py-substrate-interface"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = { file = "LICENSE" }