diff --git a/eth2near/eth2near-block-relay-rs/Cargo.toml b/eth2near/eth2near-block-relay-rs/Cargo.toml
index c25bde4e..9503c93c 100644
--- a/eth2near/eth2near-block-relay-rs/Cargo.toml
+++ b/eth2near/eth2near-block-relay-rs/Cargo.toml
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ near-jsonrpc-primitives = "0.16.0"
 prometheus = { version = "0.9", features = ["process"] }
 lazy_static = "1.4"
 warp = "0.2"
-thread = "*"
 dotenv = "0.15.0"
 
 [dev-dependencies]