diff --git a/electrumx/lib/util_atomicals.py b/electrumx/lib/util_atomicals.py
index 76568fa9..a8ee9989 100644
--- a/electrumx/lib/util_atomicals.py
+++ b/electrumx/lib/util_atomicals.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 import pickle
 import math
 from electrumx.lib.hash import sha256, double_sha256
-from cbor2 import dumps, loads, CBORDecodeError
+from cbor2 import dumps, loads, CBORDecodeError, CBORTag
 from collections.abc import Mapping
 from functools import reduce
 from merkletools import MerkleTools
@@ -1282,7 +1282,8 @@ def encode_tx_hash_hex(state):
         cloned_state[encode_tx_hash_hex(key)] = encode_tx_hash_hex(value)
     return cloned_state 
 
-# Auto detect any bytes data and encoded it
+
+# Auto encodes data into structured bytes data.
 def auto_encode_bytes_elements(state):
     if isinstance(state, bytes):
         return {
@@ -1290,19 +1291,23 @@ def auto_encode_bytes_elements(state):
             '$len': sys.getsizeof(state),
             '$auto': True
         }
-    if not isinstance(state, dict) and not isinstance(state, list):
-        return state 
-    
+
+    if isinstance(state, CBORTag):
+        dumped_bytes = dumps(state)
+        return auto_encode_bytes_elements(dumped_bytes)
+
     if isinstance(state, list):
         reformatted_list = []
         for item in state:
             reformatted_list.append(auto_encode_bytes_elements(item))
-        return reformatted_list 
+        return reformatted_list
+
+    if isinstance(state, dict):
+        for key, value in state.items():
+            state[key] = auto_encode_bytes_elements(value)
+
+    return state
 
-    for key, value in state.items():
-        state[key] = auto_encode_bytes_elements(value)
-    return state 
- 
 
 # Base atomical commit to reveal delay allowed
 def is_within_acceptable_blocks_for_general_reveal(commit_height, reveal_location_height):
diff --git a/electrumx/server/block_processor.py b/electrumx/server/block_processor.py
index 37366458..6fa82a7d 100644
--- a/electrumx/server/block_processor.py
+++ b/electrumx/server/block_processor.py
@@ -1617,9 +1617,10 @@ def put_or_delete_init_state_updates(self, mint_info, data_payload, Delete):
         height = mint_info['reveal_location_height']
 
         # Make a deep copy of the data payload and remove the reserved sections
-        copied_data_state = copy.deepcopy(data_payload)
-        # Remove any of the reserved sections
-        copied_data_state.pop('args', None)
+        copied_data_state = {}
+        for k, v in data_payload.items():
+            if k != 'args':
+                copied_data_state[k] = v
         init_payload_bytes = dumps(copied_data_state)
         op_struct = {
             'op': 'mod',
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a842b5fc..e34c676d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,3 @@ python-dotenv
 # For LevelDB
 plyvel
 
-# For RocksDB
-Cython
-rocksdb @ git+https://github.com/jansegre/python-rocksdb@6177a68
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 927f5048..d0cce275 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ def find_version():
     extras_require={
         'dev': ['objgraph'],
         'rapidjson': ['python-rapidjson>=0.4.1,<2.0'],
-        'rocksdb': ['python-rocksdb>=0.6.9'],
+        'rocksdb': ['Cython', 'rocksdb @ git+https://github.com/jansegre/python-rocksdb@6177a68'],
         'ujson': ['ujson>=2.0.0,<4.0.0'],
         'uvloop': ['uvloop>=0.14'],
         # For various coins