diff --git a/packages/api-derive/src/staking/infoStash.ts b/packages/api-derive/src/staking/infoStash.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 561badb9e8..0000000000
--- a/packages/api-derive/src/staking/infoStash.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2017-2020 @polkadot/api-derive authors & contributors
-// This software may be modified and distributed under the terms
-// of the Apache-2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.
-
-import { ApiInterfaceRx } from '@polkadot/api/types';
-import { AccountId, Exposure, Keys, Nominations, RewardDestination, ValidatorPrefs } from '@polkadot/types/interfaces';
-import { DerivedStakingStash } from '../types';
-
-import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
-import { map } from 'rxjs/operators';
-import { Option } from '@polkadot/types';
-
-import { memo } from '../util';
-
-type Result = [Option<AccountId>, Nominations, RewardDestination, Exposure, ValidatorPrefs, Option<Keys>];
-
-function parse (stashId: AccountId, [_controllerId, nominators, rewardDestination, stakers, validatorPrefs, _nextKeys]: Result): DerivedStakingStash {
-  return {
-    controllerId: _controllerId.unwrapOr(undefined),
-    nextKeys: _nextKeys.unwrapOr(undefined),
-    nominators: nominators.targets,
-    nominateAt: nominators.submittedIn,
-    rewardDestination,
-    stakers,
-    stashId,
-    validatorPrefs
-  };
-}
-
-function query (api: ApiInterfaceRx, stashId: AccountId): Observable<Result> {
-  return api.queryMulti<Result>([
-    [api.query.staking.bonded, stashId],
-    [api.query.staking.nominators, stashId],
-    [api.query.staking.payee, stashId],
-    [api.query.staking.stakers, stashId],
-    [api.query.staking.validators, stashId],
-    [api.query.session.nextKeys, [api.consts.session.dedupKeyPrefix, stashId]]
-  ]);
-}
-
-export function infoStash (api: ApiInterfaceRx): (stashId: AccountId) => Observable<DerivedStakingStash> {
-  return memo((stashId: AccountId): Observable<DerivedStakingStash> =>
-    query(api, stashId).pipe(
-      map((result): DerivedStakingStash => parse(stashId, result))
-    ));
-}
diff --git a/packages/api/src/index.ts b/packages/api/src/index.ts
index cf743bf450..8db99394b7 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/index.ts
@@ -4,13 +4,8 @@
 
 import { detectPackage } from '@polkadot/util';
 
-// eslint-disable-next-line no-useless-catch
-try {
-  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
-  detectPackage(require('./package.json'), __dirname);
-} catch (error) {
-  throw error;
-}
+// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
+detectPackage(require('./package.json'), __dirname);
 
 export { Keyring } from '@polkadot/keyring';
 export { WsProvider } from '@polkadot/rpc-provider';
diff --git a/packages/types/src/index.ts b/packages/types/src/index.ts
index 1cff35ff85..d50cea8feb 100644
--- a/packages/types/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/types/src/index.ts
@@ -4,13 +4,8 @@
 
 import { detectPackage } from '@polkadot/util';
 
-// eslint-disable-next-line no-useless-catch
-try {
-  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
-  detectPackage(require('./package.json'), __dirname);
-} catch (error) {
-  throw error;
-}
+// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
+detectPackage(require('./package.json'), __dirname);
 
 export * from './codec';
 export * from './create';