diff --git a/src/app/common/account-restoration/legacy-gaia-config-lookup.ts b/src/app/common/account-restoration/legacy-gaia-config-lookup.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a88b21e5e9..00000000000
--- a/src/app/common/account-restoration/legacy-gaia-config-lookup.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-import {
-  connectToGaiaHubWithConfig,
-  fetchWalletConfig,
-  generateWallet,
-  getHubInfo,
-} from '@stacks/wallet-sdk';
-
-import { gaiaUrl as gaiaHubUrl } from '@shared/constants';
-
-// This function replicates behaviour  wrapped in the `restoreWalletAccounts`
-// method of wallet-sdk. It checks for BNS names on Gaia-persisted accounts,
-// resulting in a huge number of requests when called by a wallet with many
-// accounts. Here, we only care to find the number of accounts a user has
-// generated, with no other side effects.
-export async function checkForLegacyGaiaConfigWithKnownGeneratedAccountIndex(secretKey: string) {
-  try {
-    const wallet = await generateWallet({ secretKey, password: '' });
-    const hubInfo = await getHubInfo(gaiaHubUrl);
-    const currentGaiaConfig = connectToGaiaHubWithConfig({
-      hubInfo,
-      privateKey: wallet.configPrivateKey,
-      gaiaHubUrl,
-    });
-    const resp = await fetchWalletConfig({ wallet, gaiaHubConfig: currentGaiaConfig });
-    return resp?.accounts.length ? resp.accounts.length - 1 : 0;
-  } catch (e) {
-    return 0;
-  }
-}
diff --git a/src/app/store/software-keys/software-key.actions.ts b/src/app/store/software-keys/software-key.actions.ts
index b244c4dc627..e4319201126 100644
--- a/src/app/store/software-keys/software-key.actions.ts
+++ b/src/app/store/software-keys/software-key.actions.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import { defaultWalletKeyId } from '@shared/utils';
 import { identifyUser } from '@shared/utils/analytics';
 
 import { recurseAccountsForActivity } from '@app/common/account-restoration/account-restore';
-import { checkForLegacyGaiaConfigWithKnownGeneratedAccountIndex } from '@app/common/account-restoration/legacy-gaia-config-lookup';
 import { mnemonicToRootNode } from '@app/common/keychain/keychain';
 import { queryClient } from '@app/common/persistence';
 import { AppThunk } from '@app/store';
@@ -47,9 +46,6 @@ function setWalletEncryptionPassword(args: {
 
     await initalizeWalletSession(encryptionKey);
 
-    const legacyAccountActivityLookup =
-      await checkForLegacyGaiaConfigWithKnownGeneratedAccountIndex(secretKey);
-
     async function doesStacksAddressHaveBalance(address: string) {
       const controller = new AbortController();
       const resp = await stxClient.getAccountBalance(address, controller.signal);
@@ -95,7 +91,6 @@ function setWalletEncryptionPassword(args: {
           return hasStxBalance || hasNames || hasBtcBalance;
         },
       }).then(recursiveActivityIndex => {
-        if (recursiveActivityIndex <= legacyAccountActivityLookup) return;
         logger.info('Found account activity at higher index', { recursiveActivityIndex });
         dispatch(stxChainSlice.actions.restoreAccountIndex(recursiveActivityIndex));
       });
@@ -111,8 +106,6 @@ function setWalletEncryptionPassword(args: {
         encryptedSecretKey,
       })
     );
-    if (legacyAccountActivityLookup !== 0)
-      dispatch(stxChainSlice.actions.restoreAccountIndex(legacyAccountActivityLookup));
   };
 }
 
diff --git a/src/shared/constants.ts b/src/shared/constants.ts
index d82ad2f07e1..ec4253c3a3a 100644
--- a/src/shared/constants.ts
+++ b/src/shared/constants.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-export const gaiaUrl = 'https://hub.blockstack.org';
-
 export const ZERO_INDEX = 0;
 
 export const GITHUB_ORG = 'leather-io';