diff --git a/nexus-watcher/tests/event_processor/utils/watcher.rs b/nexus-watcher/tests/event_processor/utils/watcher.rs
index b490e888..b6dd9a4d 100644
--- a/nexus-watcher/tests/event_processor/utils/watcher.rs
+++ b/nexus-watcher/tests/event_processor/utils/watcher.rs
@@ -112,8 +112,7 @@ impl WatcherTest {
 
         // WARNING: testnet initialization is time expensive, we only init one per process
         // TODO: Maybe we should create a single testnet network (singleton and push there more homeservers)
-        // This can be further sped up by using Testnet::new_unseeded() with pubky-testnet 0.7.x
-        let mut testnet = Testnet::new().await?;
+        let mut testnet = Testnet::new_unseeded().await?;
         testnet.create_http_relay().await?;
 
         // Create a random homeserver with a random public key