diff --git a/src/daemon/backend/index.ts b/src/daemon/backend/index.ts
index 5d05a8a..49112fc 100644
--- a/src/daemon/backend/index.ts
+++ b/src/daemon/backend/index.ts
@@ -45,36 +45,12 @@ export class Backend extends NDKNip46Backend {
     async start(): Promise<void> {
         this.localUser = await this.signer.user();
         await new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
-            // Pin this subscription to the daemon's explicit relays via
-            // `relayUrls`. Without that, NDK 3.x's outbox routing tries to
-            // resolve the relay set from `this.localUser.pubkey`'s NIP-65
-            // relay list (kind:10002). Newly-provisioned bunker keys have
-            // no published kind:10002 yet, so NDK's subscription manager
-            // queues the REQ waiting for a relay list that will never
-            // arrive — the kind:24133 subscription never lands on the
-            // wire, and inbound NIP-46 events (sign_event, get_public_key,
-            // nip44_*) targeted at this key get dropped by the relay
-            // with "Filter didn't match" because the bunker isn't actually
-            // subscribed for them.
-            //
-            // `relayUrls` was added in NDK 2.13.0 as the supported way to
-            // bypass outbox routing per subscription (see
-            // NDKSubscriptionOptions.relayUrls in @nostr-dev-kit/ndk).
-            // The relay set built from these URLs matches what the rest
-            // of the bunker uses (admin RPC channel + per-key Backend
-            // channels alike), so events flow through the same connection
-            // the admin interface already established.
-            //
-            // See aiolabs/nsecbunkerd#21.
             const sub = this.ndk.subscribe(
                 {
                     kinds: [24133],
                     "#p": [this.localUser!.pubkey],
                 },
-                {
-                    closeOnEose: false,
-                    relayUrls: this.ndk.explicitRelayUrls,
-                }
+                { closeOnEose: false }
             );
             sub.on("event", (e: any) => this.handleIncomingEvent(e));
             sub.on("eose", () => resolve());