diff --git a/etherlink/CHANGES_NODE.md b/etherlink/CHANGES_NODE.md
index 944d27c9de4367890f33379ba2d7e3a3efb8476c..6ce544bd2a44ad5e8145fcb0f60033b86f6de281 100644
--- a/etherlink/CHANGES_NODE.md
+++ b/etherlink/CHANGES_NODE.md
@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@
 - Improves the error message in case of unknown block in RPCs. (!14150)
 - Produces an empty block in case the produced one will trigger a
   kernel upgrade. (!14207)
+- `eth_getTransactionReceipt` always returns the expected index for blocks with
+  more than 256 transactions. (!14645)
 
 ### Experimental
 
diff --git a/etherlink/bin_node/lib_dev/encodings/transaction_receipt.ml b/etherlink/bin_node/lib_dev/encodings/transaction_receipt.ml
index cea5ad5187ba70446d06610d3285d56e26eaf7bd..31e28192e3dd18a9ec381f96e8f8466f66527e5c 100644
--- a/etherlink/bin_node/lib_dev/encodings/transaction_receipt.ml
+++ b/etherlink/bin_node/lib_dev/encodings/transaction_receipt.ml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ let of_rlp_bytes block_hash bytes =
           Value status;
         ]) ->
       let hash = decode_hash hash in
-      let index = decode_number_le index in
+      let index = decode_number_be index in
       let block_number = decode_number_le block_number in
       let from = decode_address from in
       let to_ = if to_ = Bytes.empty then None else Some (decode_address to_) in