diff --git a/crates/client/src/user.rs b/crates/client/src/user.rs
index 679bfc2b3..457fd7899 100644
--- a/crates/client/src/user.rs
+++ b/crates/client/src/user.rs
@@ -52,17 +52,18 @@ pub async fn get_signers_from_chain(
             .ok_or_else(|| SubgroupGetError::ChainFetch("Get all validators error"))?
     } else {
         let all_validators_query = entropy::storage().session().validators();
-        let mut validators = query_chain(api, rpc, all_validators_query, None)
+        query_chain(api, rpc, all_validators_query, None)
             .await?
-            .ok_or_else(|| SubgroupGetError::ChainFetch("Get all validators error"))?;
-
-        validators.sort();
-        validators
+            .ok_or_else(|| SubgroupGetError::ChainFetch("Get all validators error"))?
     };
 
     // TODO #898 For now we use a fix proportion of the number of validators as the threshold
     let threshold = (validators.len() as f32 * 0.75) as usize;
 
+    // We sort the validators here to ensure that we have a consistent ordering that external
+    // clients (e.g the Entropy JS SDK) can rely on.
+    validators.sort();
+
     // TODO #899 For now we just take the first t validators as the ones to perform signing
     validators.truncate(threshold);