diff --git a/models/silver/core/silver__blocks_v2.sql b/models/silver/core/silver__blocks_v2.sql
index 505026c..7da6dc4 100644
--- a/models/silver/core/silver__blocks_v2.sql
+++ b/models/silver/core/silver__blocks_v2.sql
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
     incremental_predicates = ["dynamic_range_predicate","block_timestamp::date"],
     unique_key = "block_hash",
     cluster_by = ['modified_timestamp::DATE','block_timestamp::date'],
-    post_hook = "ALTER TABLE {{ this }} ADD SEARCH OPTIMIZATION on equality(block_hash)",
     tags = ['scheduled_core', 'core_v2']
 ) }}
 
diff --git a/models/silver/core/silver__chunks_v2.sql b/models/silver/core/silver__chunks_v2.sql
deleted file mode 100644
index 7756b29..0000000
--- a/models/silver/core/silver__chunks_v2.sql
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
--- depends_on: {{ ref('bronze__chunks') }}
--- depends_on: {{ ref('bronze__FR_chunks') }}
-{{ config (
-    materialized = "incremental",
-    incremental_strategy = 'merge',
-    incremental_predicates = ["dynamic_range_predicate","block_timestamp::date"],
-    unique_key = "chunk_hash",
-    cluster_by = ['modified_timestamp::DATE','block_timestamp::date'],
-    post_hook = "ALTER TABLE {{ this }} ADD SEARCH OPTIMIZATION on equality(chunk_hash)",
-    tags = ['scheduled_core', 'core_v2']
-) }}
--- TODO this can actually be dropped
--- chunks only needed intrapipeline to get tx hashes
--- unless deployed to a fact_chunks table with just the header ? ... 
--- chunk author might be helpful to analysts looking at validator performance
--- the rest of the chunk header is contained in the block json
--- truly just chunk author ...
-
-WITH bronze_chunks AS (
-
-    SELECT
-        VALUE :BLOCK_ID :: INT AS block_id,
-        VALUE :BLOCK_TIMESTAMP_EPOCH :: INT AS block_timestamp_epoch,
-        DATA :header :shard_id :: INT AS shard_id,
-        DATA :header :chunk_hash :: STRING AS chunk_hash,
-        partition_key,
-        DATA :: variant AS chunk_json,
-        _inserted_timestamp
-    FROM
-
-{% if is_incremental() %}
-{{ ref('bronze__chunks') }}
-WHERE
-    _inserted_timestamp >= (
-        SELECT
-            COALESCE(MAX(_inserted_timestamp), '1900-01-01' :: TIMESTAMP) AS _inserted_timestamp
-        FROM
-            {{ this }})
-            AND typeof(DATA) != 'NULL_VALUE'
-        {% else %}
-            {{ ref('bronze__FR_chunks') }}
-        WHERE
-            typeof(DATA) != 'NULL_VALUE'
-        {% endif %}
-    )
-SELECT
-    block_id,
-    block_timestamp_epoch,
-    TO_TIMESTAMP_NTZ(block_timestamp_epoch, 9) AS block_timestamp,
-    shard_id,
-    chunk_hash,
-    partition_key,
-    chunk_json,
-    _inserted_timestamp,
-    {{ dbt_utils.generate_surrogate_key(['chunk_hash']) }} AS chunks_v2_id,
-    SYSDATE() AS inserted_timestamp,
-    SYSDATE() AS modified_timestamp,
-    '{{ invocation_id }}' AS _invocation_id
-FROM
-    bronze_chunks 
-
-qualify ROW_NUMBER() over (
-        PARTITION BY chunk_hash
-        ORDER BY
-            _inserted_timestamp DESC
-    ) = 1
diff --git a/models/silver/core/silver__transactions_v2.sql b/models/silver/core/silver__transactions_v2.sql
index 38f39c9..6584360 100644
--- a/models/silver/core/silver__transactions_v2.sql
+++ b/models/silver/core/silver__transactions_v2.sql
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
     incremental_predicates = ["dynamic_range_predicate","origin_block_timestamp::date"],
     unique_key = "tx_hash",
     cluster_by = ['modified_timestamp::DATE','origin_block_timestamp::date'],
-    post_hook = "ALTER TABLE {{ this }} ADD SEARCH OPTIMIZATION on equality(tx_hash)",
     tags = ['scheduled_core', 'core_v2']
 ) }}