diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 07681b1..49f17f8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
-## 1.0.0rc1 /2025-01-13
+# Changelog
+
+## 1.0.0rc2 /2025-01-15
+
+## What's Changed
+* Improve ScaleObj by @roman-opentensor in https://github.com/opentensor/async-substrate-interface/pull/2
+
+## 1.0.0rc1 /2025-01-15
 
 ## What's Changed
 * New Async Substrate Interface by @thewhaleking and @roman-opentensor in https://github.com/opentensor/async-substrate-interface/tree/main
diff --git a/async_substrate_interface/substrate_interface.py b/async_substrate_interface/substrate_interface.py
index d17c698..66876ff 100644
--- a/async_substrate_interface/substrate_interface.py
+++ b/async_substrate_interface/substrate_interface.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 import ssl
 import time
 from collections import defaultdict
+from collections.abc import Iterable
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from datetime import datetime
 from hashlib import blake2b
@@ -51,29 +52,117 @@
 
 
 class ScaleObj:
-    def __new__(cls, value):
-        if isinstance(value, (dict, str, int)):
-            return value
-        return super().__new__(cls)
+    """Bittensor representation of Scale Object."""
 
     def __init__(self, value):
         self.value = list(value) if isinstance(value, tuple) else value
 
+    def __new__(cls, value):
+        return super().__new__(cls)
+
     def __str__(self):
         return f"BittensorScaleType(value={self.value})>"
 
+    def __bool__(self):
+        if self.value:
+            return True
+        else:
+            return False
+
     def __repr__(self):
-        return repr(self.value)
+        return repr(f"BittensorScaleType(value={self.value})>")
 
     def __eq__(self, other):
-        return self.value == other
+        return self.value == (other.value if isinstance(other, ScaleObj) else other)
+
+    def __lt__(self, other):
+        return self.value < (other.value if isinstance(other, ScaleObj) else other)
+
+    def __gt__(self, other):
+        return self.value > (other.value if isinstance(other, ScaleObj) else other)
+
+    def __le__(self, other):
+        return self.value <= (other.value if isinstance(other, ScaleObj) else other)
+
+    def __ge__(self, other):
+        return self.value >= (other.value if isinstance(other, ScaleObj) else other)
+
+    def __add__(self, other):
+        if isinstance(other, ScaleObj):
+            return ScaleObj(self.value + other.value)
+        return ScaleObj(self.value + other)
+
+    def __radd__(self, other):
+        return ScaleObj(other + self.value)
+
+    def __sub__(self, other):
+        if isinstance(other, ScaleObj):
+            return ScaleObj(self.value - other.value)
+        return ScaleObj(self.value - other)
+
+    def __rsub__(self, other):
+        return ScaleObj(other - self.value)
+
+    def __mul__(self, other):
+        if isinstance(other, ScaleObj):
+            return ScaleObj(self.value * other.value)
+        return ScaleObj(self.value * other)
+
+    def __rmul__(self, other):
+        return ScaleObj(other * self.value)
+
+    def __truediv__(self, other):
+        if isinstance(other, ScaleObj):
+            return ScaleObj(self.value / other.value)
+        return ScaleObj(self.value / other)
+
+    def __rtruediv__(self, other):
+        return ScaleObj(other / self.value)
+
+    def __floordiv__(self, other):
+        if isinstance(other, ScaleObj):
+            return ScaleObj(self.value // other.value)
+        return ScaleObj(self.value // other)
+
+    def __rfloordiv__(self, other):
+        return ScaleObj(other // self.value)
+
+    def __mod__(self, other):
+        if isinstance(other, ScaleObj):
+            return ScaleObj(self.value % other.value)
+        return ScaleObj(self.value % other)
+
+    def __rmod__(self, other):
+        return ScaleObj(other % self.value)
+
+    def __pow__(self, other):
+        if isinstance(other, ScaleObj):
+            return ScaleObj(self.value**other.value)
+        return ScaleObj(self.value**other)
+
+    def __rpow__(self, other):
+        return ScaleObj(other**self.value)
+
+    def __getitem__(self, key):
+        if isinstance(self.value, (list, tuple, dict, str)):
+            return self.value[key]
+        raise TypeError(
+            f"Object of type '{type(self.value).__name__}' does not support indexing"
+        )
 
     def __iter__(self):
-        for item in self.value:
-            yield item
+        if isinstance(self.value, Iterable):
+            return iter(self.value)
+        raise TypeError(f"Object of type '{type(self.value).__name__}' is not iterable")
 
-    def __getitem__(self, item):
-        return self.value[item]
+    def __len__(self):
+        return len(self.value)
+
+    def serialize(self):
+        return self.value
+
+    def decode(self):
+        return self.value
 
 
 class AsyncExtrinsicReceipt:
@@ -998,10 +1087,7 @@ def __init__(
         )
         if pre_initialize:
             if not _mock:
-                execute_coroutine(
-                    coroutine=self.initialize(),
-                    event_loop=self.event_loop,
-                )
+                self.event_loop.create_task(self.initialize())
             else:
                 self.reload_type_registry()
 
@@ -3478,9 +3564,9 @@ async def query(
         raw_storage_key: Optional[bytes] = None,
         subscription_handler=None,
         reuse_block_hash: bool = False,
-    ) -> "ScaleType":
+    ) -> Optional[Union["ScaleObj", Any]]:
         """
-        Queries subtensor. This should only be used when making a single request. For multiple requests,
+        Queries substrate. This should only be used when making a single request. For multiple requests,
         you should use ``self.query_multiple``
         """
         block_hash = await self._get_current_block_hash(block_hash, reuse_block_hash)
@@ -3524,7 +3610,7 @@ async def query_map(
         page_size: int = 100,
         ignore_decoding_errors: bool = False,
         reuse_block_hash: bool = False,
-    ) -> "QueryMapResult":
+    ) -> QueryMapResult:
         """
         Iterates over all key-pairs located at the given module and storage_function. The storage
         item must be a map.
@@ -3686,9 +3772,7 @@ def concat_hash_len(key_hasher: str) -> int:
                         if not ignore_decoding_errors:
                             raise
                         item_value = None
-
                     result.append([item_key, item_value])
-
         return QueryMapResult(
             records=result,
             page_size=page_size,
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0c383d9..c82d049 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "async-substrate-interface"
-version = "1.0.0rc1"
+version = "1.0.0rc2"
 description = "Asyncio library for interacting with substrate. Mostly API-compatible with py-substrate-interface"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = { file = "LICENSE" }
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1b84e79..ddcdea7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="async-substrate-interface",
-    version="1.0.0rc1",
+    version="1.0.0rc2",
     description="Asyncio library for interacting with substrate.",
     long_description=open("README.md").read(),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
diff --git a/tests/unit_tests/test_substrate_interface.py b/tests/unit_tests/test_substrate_interface.py
index a178363..616152d 100644
--- a/tests/unit_tests/test_substrate_interface.py
+++ b/tests/unit_tests/test_substrate_interface.py
@@ -1,11 +1,68 @@
+import asyncio
 import pytest
 from websockets.exceptions import InvalidURI
 
-from async_substrate_interface.substrate_interface import AsyncSubstrateInterface
+from async_substrate_interface.substrate_interface import (
+    AsyncSubstrateInterface,
+    ScaleObj,
+)
 
 
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_invalid_url_raises_exception():
     """Test that invalid URI raises an InvalidURI exception."""
     with pytest.raises(InvalidURI):
-        AsyncSubstrateInterface("non_existent_entry_point")
+        async with AsyncSubstrateInterface("non_existent_entry_point"):
+            pass
+
+
+def test_scale_object():
+    """Verifies that the instance can be subject to various operations."""
+    # Preps
+    inst_int = ScaleObj(100)
+
+    # Asserts
+    assert inst_int + 1 == 101
+    assert 1 + inst_int == 101
+    assert inst_int - 1 == 99
+    assert 101 - inst_int == 1
+    assert inst_int * 2 == 200
+    assert 2 * inst_int == 200
+    assert inst_int / 2 == 50
+    assert 100 / inst_int == 1
+    assert inst_int // 2 == 50
+    assert 1001 // inst_int == 10
+    assert inst_int % 3 == 1
+    assert 1002 % inst_int == 2
+    assert inst_int >= 99
+    assert inst_int <= 101
+
+    # Preps
+    inst_str = ScaleObj("test")
+
+    # Asserts
+    assert inst_str + "test1" == "testtest1"
+    assert "test1" + inst_str == "test1test"
+    assert inst_str * 2 == "testtest"
+    assert 2 * inst_str == "testtest"
+    assert inst_str >= "test"
+    assert inst_str <= "testtest"
+    assert inst_str[0] == "t"
+    assert [i for i in inst_str] == ["t", "e", "s", "t"]
+
+    # Preps
+    inst_list = ScaleObj([1, 2, 3])
+
+    # Asserts
+    assert inst_list[0] == 1
+    assert inst_list[-1] == 3
+    assert inst_list * 2 == inst_list + inst_list
+    assert [i for i in inst_list] == [1, 2, 3]
+    assert inst_list >= [1, 2]
+    assert inst_list <= [1, 2, 3, 4]
+    assert len(inst_list) == 3
+
+    inst_dict = ScaleObj({"a": 1, "b": 2})
+    assert inst_dict["a"] == 1
+    assert inst_dict["b"] == 2
+    assert [i for i in inst_dict] == ["a", "b"]