diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 330ecc9529..29cb23770a 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1512,7 +1512,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "tempfile",
  "tokio 0.2.10",
- "toml",
  "topology",
 ]
 
diff --git a/validator/Cargo.toml b/validator/Cargo.toml
index 527739df3d..ebe0c12ee0 100644
--- a/validator/Cargo.toml
+++ b/validator/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ log = "0.4"
 pretty_env_logger = "0.3"
 serde = "1.0.104"
 tokio = { version = "0.2", features = ["full"] }
-toml = "0.5.5"
 
 ## internal
 crypto = {path = "../common/crypto"}