diff --git a/crates/fluvio-protocol/Cargo.toml b/crates/fluvio-protocol/Cargo.toml
index 426c6afd78f..ac14736cd4b 100644
--- a/crates/fluvio-protocol/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/fluvio-protocol/Cargo.toml
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ record = [
     "once_cell",
     "fluvio-types"
 ]
+types = ["fluvio-types"]
 link = ["api","record","thiserror","flv-util","semver","eyre"]
 fixture = ["record","derive_builder"]
 compress = ["fluvio-compression/compress"]
diff --git a/crates/fluvio-protocol/src/core/mod.rs b/crates/fluvio-protocol/src/core/mod.rs
index 3838ac5517d..d29fd201a38 100644
--- a/crates/fluvio-protocol/src/core/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/fluvio-protocol/src/core/mod.rs
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ mod encoder;
 mod varint;
 mod zerocopy;
 
-pub use fluvio_types::Timestamp;
-
 pub use self::bytebuf::ByteBuf;
 pub use self::decoder::Decoder;
 pub use self::decoder::DecoderVarInt;
diff --git a/crates/fluvio-protocol/src/lib.rs b/crates/fluvio-protocol/src/lib.rs
index 0551a05e40b..27c5ba2f9b3 100644
--- a/crates/fluvio-protocol/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/fluvio-protocol/src/lib.rs
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ pub mod codec;
 #[cfg(feature = "record")]
 pub mod record;
 
+#[cfg(feature = "types")]
+pub mod types {
+    pub use fluvio_types::*;
+}
+
 #[cfg(feature = "link")]
 pub mod link;
 
diff --git a/crates/fluvio-smartmodule/Cargo.toml b/crates/fluvio-smartmodule/Cargo.toml
index c0e708633d6..cc8e69af34e 100644
--- a/crates/fluvio-smartmodule/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/fluvio-smartmodule/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ eyre = { version = ">=0.6.8", default-features = false, features = [
     "auto-install",
 ] }
 fluvio-smartmodule-derive = { version = "0.6.1", path = "../fluvio-smartmodule-derive" }
-fluvio-protocol = { workspace = true, features = [ "link"] }
+fluvio-protocol = { workspace = true, features = ["link", "types"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 criterion = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/fluvio-smartmodule/src/input.rs b/crates/fluvio-smartmodule/src/input.rs
index c60299d2c5a..64d512a91ee 100644
--- a/crates/fluvio-smartmodule/src/input.rs
+++ b/crates/fluvio-smartmodule/src/input.rs
@@ -2,10 +2,11 @@ use std::io::Cursor;
 use std::time::Duration;
 use std::{collections::BTreeMap, fmt::Display};
 use std::fmt;
-use fluvio_protocol::record::{Offset, Record};
 use fluvio_protocol::{Decoder, Encoder, Version};
+use fluvio_protocol::record::{Offset, Record};
+use fluvio_protocol::types::Timestamp;
 
-use crate::{SmartModuleRecord, Timestamp};
+use crate::SmartModuleRecord;
 
 /// SmartModule Version with support for Lookback with Age and Timestamps,
 /// LTA is the acronym for Lookback, Timestamps, and Age.
diff --git a/crates/fluvio-smartmodule/src/lib.rs b/crates/fluvio-smartmodule/src/lib.rs
index 110d1077d33..d23984fd18f 100644
--- a/crates/fluvio-smartmodule/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/fluvio-smartmodule/src/lib.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ mod error;
 
 use std::ops::{Deref, DerefMut};
 
-use fluvio_protocol::core::Timestamp;
+use fluvio_protocol::types::Timestamp;
 
 pub use fluvio_smartmodule_derive::{smartmodule, SmartOpt};