diff --git a/cli/commands/server/start.go b/cli/commands/server/start.go
index 613f77e8d1..19fe168c90 100644
--- a/cli/commands/server/start.go
+++ b/cli/commands/server/start.go
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ package server
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"fmt"
+	"errors"
 
 	pruningtypes "cosmossdk.io/store/pruning/types"
 	types "github.com/berachain/beacon-kit/cli/commands/server/types"
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ custom: allow pruning options to be manually specified through 'pruning-keep-rec
 			logger := clicontext.GetLoggerFromCmd[LoggerT](cmd)
 			cfg := clicontext.GetConfigFromCmd(cmd)
 			if cfg.Consensus.TimeoutCommit == 0 {
-				return fmt.Errorf("please edit your config.toml file and set timeout_commit to 1s")
+				return errors.New("please edit your config.toml file and set timeout_commit to 1s")
 			}
 
 			v := clicontext.GetViperFromCmd(cmd)
diff --git a/testing/e2e/e2e_staking_test.go b/testing/e2e/e2e_staking_test.go
index dc3f594497..f7d15813e5 100644
--- a/testing/e2e/e2e_staking_test.go
+++ b/testing/e2e/e2e_staking_test.go
@@ -99,18 +99,20 @@ func (s *BeaconKitE2ESuite) TestDepositRobustness() {
 		// Create a deposit transaction. Use the default validators' pubkeys
 		// if exists, otherwise pubkey is a random 48 byte slice.
 		var pubkey []byte
+		var pk *bls12381.PubKey
+
 		switch i {
 		case 0:
 			pubkey, err = client.GetPubKey(s.Ctx())
 			s.Require().NoError(err)
-			pk, err := bls12381.NewPublicKeyFromBytes(pubkey)
+			pk, err = bls12381.NewPublicKeyFromBytes(pubkey)
 			s.Require().NoError(err)
 			pubkey = pk.Compress()
 			s.Require().Len(pubkey, 48)
 		case 1:
 			pubkey, err = client2.GetPubKey(s.Ctx())
 			s.Require().NoError(err)
-			pk, err := bls12381.NewPublicKeyFromBytes(pubkey)
+			pk, err = bls12381.NewPublicKeyFromBytes(pubkey)
 			s.Require().NoError(err)
 			pubkey = pk.Compress()
 			s.Require().Len(pubkey, 48)