diff --git a/rpc-client-api/Cargo.toml b/rpc-client-api/Cargo.toml
index e1eee85110178e..349f06040ee9cd 100644
--- a/rpc-client-api/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rpc-client-api/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ anyhow = { workspace = true }
 base64 = { workspace = true }
 bs58 = { workspace = true, features = ["std"] }
 jsonrpc-core = { workspace = true }
-reqwest = { workspace = true, features = ["blocking", "brotli", "deflate", "gzip", "rustls-tls", "json"] }
+reqwest = { workspace = true, default-features = false, features = ["rustls-tls"] }
 reqwest-middleware = { workspace = true }
 semver = { workspace = true }
 serde = { workspace = true }