diff --git a/x/wasm/keeper/handler_plugin.go b/x/wasm/keeper/handler_plugin.go
index 99505d3a52..9e55385ca8 100644
--- a/x/wasm/keeper/handler_plugin.go
+++ b/x/wasm/keeper/handler_plugin.go
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 	codectypes "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/codec/types"
 	sdk "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types"
 	sdkerrors "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types/errors"
+	ibctypes "github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/v5/modules/apps/transfer/types"
 	channeltypes "github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/v5/modules/core/04-channel/types"
 	host "github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/v5/modules/core/24-host"
 
@@ -192,8 +193,16 @@ func (h IBCRawPacketHandler) DispatchMsg(ctx sdk.Context, _ sdk.AccAddress, cont
 		return nil, nil, sdkerrors.Wrap(err, "failed to send packet")
 	}
 
-	// Encode the sequence in big endian order and append it to data so that it can be retrieved by contract
-	data = append(data, sdk.Uint64ToBigEndian(sequence))
+	// Encode the sequence in a struct and append it to data so that it can be retrieved by contract
+	// we're reusing MsgTransferResponse here because it's the same proto, but it would be cleaner to not do this
+	resp := &ibctypes.MsgTransferResponse { Sequence: sequence}
+	val, err := resp.Marshal()
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, sdkerrors.Wrap(err, "failed to marshal sequence response")
+	}
+	
+	data = append(data, val)
 	return
 }