diff --git a/api/src/initServices.ts b/api/src/initServices.ts
index 6a9f02792..93f93bf15 100644
--- a/api/src/initServices.ts
+++ b/api/src/initServices.ts
@@ -211,14 +211,15 @@ function initNovaServices(networkConfig: INetwork): void {
     logger.verbose(`Initializing Nova services for ${networkConfig.network}`);
 
     const novaClientParams: INovaClientOptions = {
-        primaryNode: networkConfig.provider,
+        primaryNodes: [networkConfig.provider],
     };
 
     if (networkConfig.permaNodeEndpoint) {
-        novaClientParams.nodes = [networkConfig.permaNodeEndpoint];
-        // Client with permanode needs the ignoreNodeHealth as chronicle is considered "not healthy" by the sdk
-        // Related: https://github.com/iotaledger/inx-chronicle/issues/1302
-        novaClientParams.ignoreNodeHealth = true;
+        const chronicleNode = {
+            url: networkConfig.permaNodeEndpoint,
+            permanode: true,
+        };
+        novaClientParams.primaryNodes.push(chronicleNode);
 
         const chronicleService = new ChronicleService(networkConfig);
         ServiceFactory.register(`chronicle-${networkConfig.network}`, () => chronicleService);
diff --git a/setup_nova.sh b/setup_nova.sh
index 3a84bcb80..149b19584 100755
--- a/setup_nova.sh
+++ b/setup_nova.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 SDK_DIR="iota-sdk"
-TARGET_COMMIT="8f0ff5e1e899a0d960ddfea09237739a88c3bcf1"
+TARGET_COMMIT="257bcff80bf0336f571f9a226ebde1acd8974104"
 
 if [ ! -d "$SDK_DIR" ]; then
   git clone -b 2.0 git@github.com:iotaledger/iota-sdk.git