diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index a74c6308e6..29edbbb323 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5613,9 +5613,7 @@ version = "0.50.0"
 dependencies = [
  "assert_matches",
  "async-trait",
- "base58",
  "bitvec",
- "blake2",
  "derive-where",
  "either",
  "frame-decode",
@@ -5650,11 +5648,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "subxt-utils-accountid32",
  "thiserror 2.0.12",
  "tokio",
- "tokio-util",
  "tower",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-subscriber",
- "url",
  "wasm-bindgen-futures",
  "web-time",
 ]
diff --git a/subxt/Cargo.toml b/subxt/Cargo.toml
index 5979b0e3cf..6e338bfa7d 100644
--- a/subxt/Cargo.toml
+++ b/subxt/Cargo.toml
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ docs = [
 native = [
     "subxt-lightclient?/native",
     "subxt-rpcs/native",
-    "tokio-util",
     "tokio?/sync",
     "sp-crypto-hashing/std",
 ]
@@ -83,8 +82,6 @@ runtime-wasm-path = ["subxt-macro/runtime-wasm-path"]
 
 [dependencies]
 async-trait = { workspace = true }
-base58 = { workspace = true }
-blake2 = { workspace = true }
 codec = { package = "parity-scale-codec", workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
 derive-where = { workspace = true }
 scale-info = { workspace = true, features = ["default"] }
@@ -121,12 +118,6 @@ subxt-lightclient = { workspace = true, optional = true, default-features = fals
 subxt-rpcs = { workspace = true }
 subxt-utils-accountid32 = { workspace = true }
 
-# For parsing urls to disallow insecure schemes
-url = { workspace = true }
-
-# Included if "native" feature is enabled
-tokio-util = { workspace = true, features = ["compat"], optional = true }
-
 # Included if the reconnecting rpc client feature is enabled
 # Only the `tokio/sync` is used in the reconnecting rpc client
 # and that compiles both for native and web.