diff --git a/src/hashes/identity.ts b/src/hashes/identity.ts
index cacfef8..38b39f4 100644
--- a/src/hashes/identity.ts
+++ b/src/hashes/identity.ts
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 import { coerce } from '../bytes.js'
-import * as Digest from './digest.js'
+import { from } from './hasher.js'
 
 const code: 0x0 = 0x0
 const name = 'identity'
 
 const encode: (input: Uint8Array) => Uint8Array = coerce
 
-function digest (input: Uint8Array): Digest.Digest<typeof code, number> {
-  return Digest.create(code, encode(input))
-}
-
-export const identity = { code, name, encode, digest }
+export const identity = from({
+  name,
+  code,
+  encode
+})
diff --git a/test/test-multihash.spec.ts b/test/test-multihash.spec.ts
index 37e25af..a86e5ca 100644
--- a/test/test-multihash.spec.ts
+++ b/test/test-multihash.spec.ts
@@ -97,8 +97,7 @@ describe('multihash', () => {
       assert.deepStrictEqual(hash2.bytes, hash.bytes)
     })
 
-    it('hash identity async', async () => {
-      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/await-thenable
+    it('hash identity', async () => {
       const hash = await identity.digest(fromString('test'))
       assert.deepStrictEqual(hash.code, identity.code)
       assert.deepStrictEqual(identity.code, 0)
@@ -108,17 +107,6 @@ describe('multihash', () => {
       assert.deepStrictEqual(hash2.code, identity.code)
       assert.deepStrictEqual(hash2.bytes, hash.bytes)
     })
-
-    it('hash identity sync', () => {
-      const hash = identity.digest(fromString('test'))
-      assert.deepStrictEqual(hash.code, identity.code)
-      assert.deepStrictEqual(identity.code, 0)
-      assert.deepStrictEqual(hash.digest, fromString('test'))
-
-      const hash2 = decodeDigest(hash.bytes)
-      assert.deepStrictEqual(hash2.code, identity.code)
-      assert.deepStrictEqual(hash2.bytes, hash.bytes)
-    })
   })
   describe('decode', () => {
     for (const { encoding, hex, size } of valid) {
@@ -161,11 +149,12 @@ describe('multihash', () => {
   })
 
   describe('hasCode', () => {
-    it('asserts that a multihash has the expected code', () => {
+    it('asserts that a multihash has the expected code', async () => {
       const buf = Uint8Array.from([0, 1, 2, 3])
 
       // remove code type from MultihashDigest
-      const hash = decodeDigest(identity.digest(buf).bytes)
+      const digest = await identity.digest(buf)
+      const hash = decodeDigest(digest.bytes)
 
       // a function that requires a specific type of multihash
       function needIdentity (_: MultihashDigest<0x0>): void {