diff --git a/light-clients/ics07-tendermint/Cargo.toml b/light-clients/ics07-tendermint/Cargo.toml
index 9b81bbccc..158462848 100644
--- a/light-clients/ics07-tendermint/Cargo.toml
+++ b/light-clients/ics07-tendermint/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ prost = { version = "0.11", default-features = false }
 bytes = { version = "1.1.0", default-features = false }
 subtle-encoding = { version = "0.5", default-features = false }
 flex-error = { version = "0.4.4", default-features = false }
-tendermint = { git = "https://github.com/informalsystems/tendermint-rs", rev = "e81f7bf23d63ffbcd242381d1ce5e35da3515ff1", default-features = false }
+tendermint = { git = "https://github.com/informalsystems/tendermint-rs", rev = "e81f7bf23d63ffbcd242381d1ce5e35da3515ff1", default-features = false, features = ["rust-crypto"] }
 tendermint-proto = { git = "https://github.com/informalsystems/tendermint-rs", rev = "e81f7bf23d63ffbcd242381d1ce5e35da3515ff1", default-features = false }
 tendermint-light-client-verifier = { git = "https://github.com/informalsystems/tendermint-rs", rev = "e81f7bf23d63ffbcd242381d1ce5e35da3515ff1", default-features = false }
 sha2 = { version = "0.10", optional = true, default-features = false }
diff --git a/light-clients/ics07-tendermint/src/lib.rs b/light-clients/ics07-tendermint/src/lib.rs
index ea868b686..941431d98 100644
--- a/light-clients/ics07-tendermint/src/lib.rs
+++ b/light-clients/ics07-tendermint/src/lib.rs
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ pub mod client_state;
 pub mod consensus_state;
 pub mod error;
 pub mod merkle;
+pub mod utils;
 #[cfg(any(test, feature = "mocks"))]
 pub mod mock;
 #[cfg(any(test, feature = "mocks"))]
diff --git a/light-clients/ics07-tendermint/src/utils.rs b/light-clients/ics07-tendermint/src/utils.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..77f7fc0f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/light-clients/ics07-tendermint/src/utils.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+use tendermint::{block::{signed_header::SignedHeader, Commit, CommitSig}, signature::Signature, PublicKey, crypto::default::signature::Verifier};
+
+use crate::client_message::Header;
+
+use tendermint::crypto::signature::Verifier as _;
+
+
+
+/// Utilty function that:
+/// - collects {signature, pubkey, msg} from every validator that successfuly signed a block so that
+/// - there's consensus (voting power > 2/3) and
+/// - size of the validators that succesfully voted equals the circuit size 
+
+pub fn collect_signatures_for_finalized_block(header: Header, circuit_size: usize) -> Option<Vec<(PublicKey, Signature, Vec<u8>)>> {
+
+    let Header {validator_set,
+        signed_header: SignedHeader{
+            header, commit: Commit{signatures, ..}
+            ,..}, ..
+   } = header;
+
+    let total_voting_power = validator_set.total_voting_power().value();
+
+    // 1. order by voting power
+    
+    // filter by valid signatures
+    let mut validator_info_signed_block = signatures.iter().filter(|commit| matches!(commit, CommitSig::BlockIdFlagCommit{..}))
+    .flat_map(|commit| match commit {
+        CommitSig::BlockIdFlagCommit { validator_address,  signature, .. } if signature.is_some() => {
+            match validator_set.validators().iter().find(|info| *validator_address == info.address ) {
+                None => None,
+                Some(info) => Some((info.pub_key, signature.clone().unwrap(), commit, info.power))
+            }
+    
+        }
+    _ => unreachable!()
+    }
+    )
+    .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+// order by power DESC
+validator_info_signed_block.sort_by(|(_, _, _, power_a), (_, _, _, power_b)| power_b.value().cmp(&power_a.value()));
+
+let result = validator_info_signed_block.into_iter().fold((0u64, vec![]), |mut acc, (pubkey, signature, _commit, power)| {
+        if acc.0 * 3 > 2*total_voting_power && acc.1.len() == circuit_size {
+            acc
+        } else {
+            // TOOD: commit has to become bytes, I guess? How to do so?
+            // let msg = commit;
+            let msg = vec![0u8];
+
+            if Verifier::verify(pubkey, msg.as_ref(), &signature).is_ok() {
+                    acc.1.push((pubkey, signature, msg.to_vec()));
+                    acc.0 +=  power.value();    
+            }
+            acc
+        }
+        
+    });
+
+if result.0 * 3 > 2*total_voting_power && result.1.len() == circuit_size {
+    Some(result.1)
+} else {
+    None
+}
+}
+
+// fn check_block_is_final() {
+
+// }
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