diff --git a/src/main/frontend/db.cljs b/src/main/frontend/db.cljs
index fe3bc62a7..dd59c6d95 100644
--- a/src/main/frontend/db.cljs
+++ b/src/main/frontend/db.cljs
@@ -23,10 +23,7 @@
   remove-conn!]
 
  [frontend.db.utils
-  db->edn-str db->string get-max-tx-id get-tx-id
   group-by-page seq-flatten
-  string->db
-
   entity pull pull-many transact! get-key-value]
 
  [frontend.db.model
diff --git a/src/main/frontend/db/utils.cljs b/src/main/frontend/db/utils.cljs
index bcd0406cb..6308cfcb0 100644
--- a/src/main/frontend/db/utils.cljs
+++ b/src/main/frontend/db/utils.cljs
@@ -2,22 +2,12 @@
   "Some utils are required by other namespace in frontend.db package."
   (:require [datascript.core :as d]
             [frontend.state :as state]
-            [datascript.transit :as dt]
             [frontend.db.conn :as conn]
             [frontend.config :as config]
             [logseq.db.frontend.content :as db-content]))
 
 ;; transit serialization
 
-(defn db->string [db]
-  (dt/write-transit-str db))
-
-(defn db->edn-str [db]
-  (pr-str db))
-
-(defn string->db [s]
-  (dt/read-transit-str s))
-
 (defn seq-flatten [col]
   (flatten (seq col)))
 
@@ -28,13 +18,6 @@
              (group-by :block/page))
     blocks))
 
-(defn get-tx-id [tx-report]
-  (get-in tx-report [:tempids :db/current-tx]))
-
-(defn get-max-tx-id
-  [db]
-  (:max-tx db))
-
 (defn entity
   "This function will return nil if passed `id-or-lookup-ref` is an integer and
   the entity doesn't exist in db.
diff --git a/src/main/frontend/db_worker.cljs b/src/main/frontend/db_worker.cljs
index 9d7800acd..2c7f03c9e 100644
--- a/src/main/frontend/db_worker.cljs
+++ b/src/main/frontend/db_worker.cljs
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
             [datascript.storage :refer [IStorage]]
             [clojure.edn :as edn]
             [datascript.core :as d]
-            [datascript.transit :as dt]
             [logseq.db.sqlite.common-db :as sqlite-common-db]
             [shadow.cljs.modern :refer [defclass]]
             ["@logseq/sqlite-wasm" :default sqlite3InitModule]
diff --git a/src/main/frontend/persist_db/browser.cljs b/src/main/frontend/persist_db/browser.cljs
index a3ce5b878..37e26941d 100644
--- a/src/main/frontend/persist_db/browser.cljs
+++ b/src/main/frontend/persist_db/browser.cljs
@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@
             [frontend.handler.worker :as worker-handler]
             [logseq.db :as ldb]
             [frontend.db.transact :as db-transact]
-            [frontend.date :as date]
-            [datascript.transit :as dt]))
+            [frontend.date :as date]))
 
 (defonce *worker state/*db-worker)
 
diff --git a/src/main/frontend/publishing.cljs b/src/main/frontend/publishing.cljs
index f1060be24..86f537fc6 100644
--- a/src/main/frontend/publishing.cljs
+++ b/src/main/frontend/publishing.cljs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   application"
   (:require [frontend.state :as state]
             [datascript.core :as d]
+            [datascript.transit :as dt]
             [frontend.db :as db]
             [rum.core :as rum]
             [frontend.handler.route :as route-handler]
@@ -58,7 +59,7 @@
       (state/set-current-repo! repo)
       (p/let [_ (repo-handler/restore-and-setup-repo! repo)
               _ (let [data (unescape-html data)
-                      db (db/string->db data)
+                      db (dt/read-transit-str data)
                       datoms (d/datoms db :eavt)]
                   (db/transact! repo datoms {:init-db? true
                                              :new-graph? true}))]