diff --git a/packages/interface/src/events.ts b/packages/interface/src/events.ts
index 4c4a498fc3..e7fb860983 100644
--- a/packages/interface/src/events.ts
+++ b/packages/interface/src/events.ts
@@ -117,9 +117,6 @@ class CustomEventPolyfill<T = any> extends Event {
 
 export const CustomEvent = globalThis.CustomEvent ?? CustomEventPolyfill
 
-// TODO: remove this in v1
-export { TypedEventEmitter as EventEmitter }
-
 // create a setMaxListeners that doesn't break browser usage
 export const setMaxListeners: typeof nodeSetMaxListeners = (n, ...eventTargets) => {
   try {
diff --git a/packages/peer-discovery-mdns/src/mdns.ts b/packages/peer-discovery-mdns/src/mdns.ts
index 4cfc1a4dea..6c748d5657 100644
--- a/packages/peer-discovery-mdns/src/mdns.ts
+++ b/packages/peer-discovery-mdns/src/mdns.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { CustomEvent, EventEmitter } from '@libp2p/interface/events'
+import { CustomEvent, TypedEventEmitter } from '@libp2p/interface/events'
 import { peerDiscovery } from '@libp2p/interface/peer-discovery'
 import multicastDNS from 'multicast-dns'
 import * as query from './query.js'
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export interface MulticastDNSComponents {
   logger: ComponentLogger
 }
 
-export class MulticastDNS extends EventEmitter<PeerDiscoveryEvents> implements PeerDiscovery, Startable {
+export class MulticastDNS extends TypedEventEmitter<PeerDiscoveryEvents> implements PeerDiscovery, Startable {
   public mdns?: multicastDNS.MulticastDNS
 
   private readonly log: Logger