diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 43e311d..d7e24d9 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "nova-snark"
-version = "0.18.0"
+version = "0.18.1"
 authors = ["Srinath Setty <srinath@microsoft.com>"]
 edition = "2021"
 description = "Recursive zkSNARKs without trusted setup"
diff --git a/src/traits/mod.rs b/src/traits/mod.rs
index 4618402..5138cea 100644
--- a/src/traits/mod.rs
+++ b/src/traits/mod.rs
@@ -234,12 +234,10 @@ pub trait PrimeFieldExt: PrimeField {
   fn from_uniform(bytes: &[u8]) -> Self;
 }
 
-impl<G: Group<Scalar = F>, F: PrimeField + TranscriptReprTrait<G>> TranscriptReprTrait<G>
-  for &[F]
-{
+impl<G: Group, T: TranscriptReprTrait<G>> TranscriptReprTrait<G> for &[T] {
   fn to_transcript_bytes(&self) -> Vec<u8> {
     (0..self.len())
-      .map(|i| <F as TranscriptReprTrait<G>>::to_transcript_bytes(&self[i]))
+      .map(|i| self[i].to_transcript_bytes())
       .collect::<Vec<_>>()
       .into_iter()
       .flatten()