import type { ProtobufRpcClient } from "@cosmjs/stargate";
/**
 * Minimal structural view of @cosmjs/stargate's QueryClient: the only part
 * the generated query extensions actually use.
 */
export interface AbciQueryClient {
    queryAbci(path: string, request: Uint8Array, desiredHeight?: number): Promise<{
        readonly value: Uint8Array;
        readonly height: number;
    }>;
}
/**
 * Drop-in local replacement for @cosmjs/stargate's createProtobufRpcClient.
 * Behaves identically (same path format, same queryAbci delegation), but lives
 * here so that importing a single generated query client does not pull the
 * whole @cosmjs/stargate CJS barrel (and with it ~900 KB of cosmjs-types)
 * into bundles.
 */
export declare const createProtobufRpcClient: (base: AbciQueryClient) => ProtobufRpcClient;