diff --git a/ts/test/session/unit/libsession_wrapper/libsession_wrapper_metagroup_test.ts b/ts/test/session/unit/libsession_wrapper/libsession_wrapper_metagroup_test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4acf9a286
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ts/test/session/unit/libsession_wrapper/libsession_wrapper_metagroup_test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+import { expect } from 'chai';
+import { MetaGroupWrapperNode, UserGroupsWrapperNode } from 'libsession_util_nodejs';
+import Sinon from 'sinon';
+import { HexString } from '../../../../node/hexStrings';
+import { toFixedUint8ArrayOfLength } from '../../../../types/sqlSharedTypes';
+import { TestUtils } from '../../../test-utils';
+import { TestUserKeyPairs } from '../../../test-utils/utils';
+
+describe('libsession_metagroup', () => {
+  let us: TestUserKeyPairs;
+  let groupCreated: ReturnType<UserGroupsWrapperNode['createGroup']>;
+  let metaGroupWrapper: MetaGroupWrapperNode;
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    us = await TestUtils.generateUserKeyPairs();
+    const groupWrapper = new UserGroupsWrapperNode(us.ed25519KeyPair.privateKey, null);
+    groupCreated = groupWrapper.createGroup();
+
+    metaGroupWrapper = new MetaGroupWrapperNode({
+      groupEd25519Pubkey: toFixedUint8ArrayOfLength(
+        HexString.fromHexString(groupCreated.pubkeyHex.slice(2)),
+        32
+      ),
+      groupEd25519Secretkey: groupCreated.secretKey,
+      metaDumped: null,
+      userEd25519Secretkey: toFixedUint8ArrayOfLength(us.ed25519KeyPair.privateKey, 64),
+    });
+  });
+  afterEach(() => {
+    Sinon.restore();
+  });
+
+  describe("encrypt/decrypt group's message", () => {
+    it('can encrypt/decrypt message for group with us as author', async () => {
+      const plaintext = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9];
+      const toEncrypt = new Uint8Array(plaintext);
+      const encrypted = metaGroupWrapper.encryptMessage(toEncrypt);
+      const decrypted = metaGroupWrapper.decryptMessage(encrypted);
+
+      expect(decrypted.plaintext).to.be.deep.eq(toEncrypt);
+      expect(decrypted.pubkeyHex).to.be.deep.eq(us.x25519KeyPair.pubkeyHex);
+    });
+
+    it('throws when encrypt/decrypt message when content is messed up', async () => {
+      const plaintext = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9];
+      const toEncrypt = new Uint8Array(plaintext);
+      const encrypted = metaGroupWrapper.encryptMessage(toEncrypt);
+
+      encrypted[1] = 67;
+      const func = () => metaGroupWrapper.decryptMessage(encrypted);
+      expect(func).to.throw('unable to decrypt ciphertext with any current group keys');
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/ts/test/test-utils/utils/pubkey.ts b/ts/test/test-utils/utils/pubkey.ts
index 826012e51..7247c7435 100644
--- a/ts/test/test-utils/utils/pubkey.ts
+++ b/ts/test/test-utils/utils/pubkey.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 import * as crypto from 'crypto';
+import { GroupPubkeyType, UserGroupsWrapperNode } from 'libsession_util_nodejs';
+import { KeyPair, to_hex } from 'libsodium-wrappers-sumo';
 import _ from 'lodash';
 import { Snode } from '../../../data/data';
+import { getSodiumNode } from '../../../node/sodiumNode';
 import { ECKeyPair } from '../../../receiver/keypairs';
 import { PubKey } from '../../../session/types';
-import { GroupPubkeyType } from 'libsession_util_nodejs';
 
 export function generateFakePubKey(): PubKey {
   // Generates a mock pubkey for testing
@@ -23,6 +25,46 @@ export function generateFakePubKeyStr(): string {
   return pubkeyString;
 }
 
+export type TestUserKeyPairs = {
+  x25519KeyPair: {
+    pubkeyHex: string;
+    pubKey: Uint8Array;
+    privKey: Uint8Array;
+  };
+  ed25519KeyPair: KeyPair;
+};
+
+export async function generateUserKeyPairs(): Promise<TestUserKeyPairs> {
+  const sodium = await getSodiumNode();
+  const ed25519KeyPair = sodium.crypto_sign_seed_keypair(
+    sodium.randombytes_buf(sodium.crypto_sign_SEEDBYTES)
+  );
+  const x25519PublicKey = sodium.crypto_sign_ed25519_pk_to_curve25519(ed25519KeyPair.publicKey);
+  // prepend version byte (coming from `processKeys(raw_keys)`)
+  const origPub = new Uint8Array(x25519PublicKey);
+  const prependedX25519PublicKey = new Uint8Array(33);
+  prependedX25519PublicKey.set(origPub, 1);
+  prependedX25519PublicKey[0] = 5;
+  const x25519SecretKey = sodium.crypto_sign_ed25519_sk_to_curve25519(ed25519KeyPair.privateKey);
+
+  // prepend with 05 the public key
+  const userKeys = {
+    x25519KeyPair: {
+      pubkeyHex: to_hex(prependedX25519PublicKey),
+      pubKey: prependedX25519PublicKey,
+      privKey: x25519SecretKey,
+    },
+    ed25519KeyPair,
+  };
+
+  return userKeys;
+}
+
+export async function generateGroupV2(privateEd25519: Uint8Array) {
+  const groupWrapper = new UserGroupsWrapperNode(privateEd25519, null);
+  return groupWrapper.createGroup();
+}
+
 export function generateFakeClosedGroupV3PkStr(): GroupPubkeyType {
   // Generates a mock pubkey for testing
   const numBytes = PubKey.PUBKEY_LEN / 2 - 1;