diff --git a/ipa-multipoint/src/committer.rs b/ipa-multipoint/src/committer.rs
index 5e6d2ce..032a222 100644
--- a/ipa-multipoint/src/committer.rs
+++ b/ipa-multipoint/src/committer.rs
@@ -22,15 +22,14 @@ pub trait Committer {
     }
 }
 
-use crate::crs::CRS;
 #[derive(Clone, Debug)]
 pub struct DefaultCommitter {
     precomp: MSMPrecompWnaf,
 }
 
 impl DefaultCommitter {
-    pub fn new(crs: CRS) -> Self {
-        let precomp = MSMPrecompWnaf::new(&crs.G, 12);
+    pub fn new(points: &[Element]) -> Self {
+        let precomp = MSMPrecompWnaf::new(&points, 12);
 
         Self { precomp }
     }
diff --git a/ipa-multipoint/src/main.rs b/ipa-multipoint/src/main.rs
index 14c32ec..e59f998 100644
--- a/ipa-multipoint/src/main.rs
+++ b/ipa-multipoint/src/main.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ fn main() {
     println!("Benchmarking Pedersen hashing...");
     const N: usize = 5000;
 
-    let committer = DefaultCommitter::new(CRS::new(256, "eth_verkle_oct_2021".as_bytes()));
+    let crs = CRS::new(256, "eth_verkle_oct_2021".as_bytes());
+
+    let committer = DefaultCommitter::new(&crs.G);
     let mut vec_len = 1;
     while vec_len <= 256 {
         println!("\twith {} elements... ", vec_len);
diff --git a/verkle-spec/src/lib.rs b/verkle-spec/src/lib.rs
index cad678d..628ee1c 100644
--- a/verkle-spec/src/lib.rs
+++ b/verkle-spec/src/lib.rs
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ pub fn hash64(bytes64: [u8; 64]) -> H256 {
 
     // TODO: We should either make this a global or have it be passed in
     // TODO: so that we don't create a new crs each time
-    let committer = DefaultCommitter::new(new_crs());
+    let committer = DefaultCommitter::new(&new_crs().G);
     let mut result = Element::zero();
 
     let inputs = crate::util::chunk64(bytes64);
diff --git a/verkle-trie/src/config.rs b/verkle-trie/src/config.rs
index 64778fd..a146bd3 100644
--- a/verkle-trie/src/config.rs
+++ b/verkle-trie/src/config.rs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ pub struct Config<Storage, PolyCommit> {
 pub type DefaultConfig<Storage> = Config<Storage, DefaultCommitter>;
 impl<Storage> DefaultConfig<Storage> {
     pub fn new(db: Storage) -> Self {
-        let committer = DefaultCommitter::new(new_crs());
+        let committer = DefaultCommitter::new(&new_crs().G);
         Config { db, committer }
     }
 }