diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 0a0f78b5..b933a6ea 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -146,9 +146,9 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@chainsafe/is-ip": "^2.0.1",
-    "multiformats": "^13.0.0",
-    "uint8-varint": "^2.0.1",
-    "uint8arrays": "^5.0.0"
+    "multiformats": "^14.0.0",
+    "uint8-varint": "^3.0.0",
+    "uint8arrays": "^6.1.1"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "aegir": "^48.0.4"
diff --git a/src/components.ts b/src/components.ts
index f6009e11..924ceea4 100644
--- a/src/components.ts
+++ b/src/components.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import * as varint from 'uint8-varint'
+import { withArrayBuffer } from 'uint8arrays'
 import { concat as uint8ArrayConcat } from 'uint8arrays/concat'
 import { fromString as uint8ArrayFromString } from 'uint8arrays/from-string'
 import { toString as uint8ArrayToString } from 'uint8arrays/to-string'
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ export function bytesToComponents (bytes: Uint8Array): Component[] {
     const component: Component = {
       code,
       name: codec.name,
-      bytes: bytes.subarray(i, i + componentLength)
+      bytes: withArrayBuffer(bytes.subarray(i, i + componentLength))
     }
 
     if (size > 0) {
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ export function bytesToComponents (bytes: Uint8Array): Component[] {
   return components
 }
 
-export function componentsToBytes (components: Component[]): Uint8Array {
+export function componentsToBytes (components: Component[]): Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer> {
   let length = 0
   const bytes: Uint8Array[] = []
 
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 86b6bae4..94113baf 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -123,11 +123,11 @@ export interface Component {
    * The bytes that make up the component. This will be set if the multiaddr
    * was parsed from a `Uint8Array`, or if `.bytes` has been accessed on it.
    */
-  bytes?: Uint8Array
+  bytes?: Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer>
 }
 
 export interface Multiaddr {
-  bytes: Uint8Array
+  bytes: Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer>
 
   /**
    * Returns Multiaddr as a String
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ export interface Multiaddr {
    * // false
    * ```
    */
-  equals(addr: { bytes: Uint8Array }): boolean
+  equals(addr?: any): boolean
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/multiaddr.ts b/src/multiaddr.ts
index 7a93359a..573cc702 100644
--- a/src/multiaddr.ts
+++ b/src/multiaddr.ts
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ export class Multiaddr implements MultiaddrInterface {
   // cache string representation
   #string: string | undefined
   // cache byte representation
-  #bytes: Uint8Array | undefined
+  #bytes: Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer> | undefined
 
   constructor (addr: MultiaddrInput | Component[] = '/', options: MultiaddrOptions = {}) {
     this.#components = toComponents(addr)
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ export class Multiaddr implements MultiaddrInterface {
     }
   }
 
-  get bytes (): Uint8Array {
+  get bytes (): Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer> {
     if (this.#bytes == null) {
       this.#bytes = componentsToBytes(this.#components)
     }
diff --git a/src/registry.ts b/src/registry.ts
index 1c345467..de211924 100644
--- a/src/registry.ts
+++ b/src/registry.ts
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ export interface ProtocolCodec {
   /**
    * To encode the multiaddr as bytes, convert the value to bytes
    */
-  valueToBytes?(value: string): Uint8Array
+  valueToBytes?(value: string): Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer>
 
   /**
    * To decode bytes to a multiaddr, convert the value bytes to a string
diff --git a/src/utils.ts b/src/utils.ts
index d75f6b71..1b496f21 100644
--- a/src/utils.ts
+++ b/src/utils.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ export function bytesToString (base: SupportedEncodings): (buf: Uint8Array) => s
   }
 }
 
-export function stringToBytes (base: SupportedEncodings): (value: string) => Uint8Array {
+export function stringToBytes (base: SupportedEncodings): (value: string) => Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer> {
   return (buf) => {
     return uint8ArrayFromString(buf, base)
   }
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ export function bytes2port (buf: Uint8Array): string {
   return view.getUint16(buf.byteOffset).toString()
 }
 
-export function port2bytes (port: string | number): Uint8Array {
+export function port2bytes (port: string | number): Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer> {
   const buf = new ArrayBuffer(2)
   const view = new DataView(buf)
   view.setUint16(0, typeof port === 'string' ? parseInt(port) : port)
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ export function port2bytes (port: string | number): Uint8Array {
   return new Uint8Array(buf)
 }
 
-export function onion2bytes (str: string): Uint8Array {
+export function onion2bytes (str: string): Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer> {
   const addr = str.split(':')
 
   if (addr.length !== 2) {
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ export function onion2bytes (str: string): Uint8Array {
   return uint8ArrayConcat([buf, portBuf], buf.length + portBuf.length)
 }
 
-export function onion32bytes (str: string): Uint8Array {
+export function onion32bytes (str: string): Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer> {
   const addr = str.split(':')
 
   if (addr.length !== 2) {
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ export function bytes2onion (buf: Uint8Array): string {
 
 // Copied from https://github.com/indutny/node-ip/blob/master/lib/ip.js#L7
 // but with buf/offset args removed because we don't use them
-export const ip4ToBytes = function (ip: string): Uint8Array {
+export const ip4ToBytes = function (ip: string): Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer> {
   ip = ip.toString().trim()
 
   const bytes = new Uint8Array(4)
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ export const ip4ToBytes = function (ip: string): Uint8Array {
 
 // Copied from https://github.com/indutny/node-ip/blob/master/lib/ip.js#L7
 // but with buf/offset args removed because we don't use them
-export const ip6ToBytes = function (ip: string): Uint8Array {
+export const ip6ToBytes = function (ip: string): Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer> {
   let offset = 0
   ip = ip.toString().trim()
 
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ const anybaseDecoder = (function () {
   return acc
 })()
 
-export function mb2bytes (mbstr: string): Uint8Array {
+export function mb2bytes (mbstr: string): Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer> {
   return anybaseDecoder.decode(mbstr)
 }