diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3e0e7a9824..d019823306 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -526,8 +526,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "bs58 0.5.1",
  "hmac",
  "k256",
- "once_cell",
- "pbkdf2",
  "rand_core 0.6.4",
  "ripemd",
  "sha2 0.10.8",
@@ -2204,7 +2202,6 @@ version = "0.13.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ded41244b729663b1e574f1b4fb731469f69f79c17667b5d776b16cda0479449"
 dependencies = [
- "bitvec",
  "rand_core 0.6.4",
  "subtle 2.5.0",
 ]
@@ -6089,16 +6086,6 @@ version = "1.0.15"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "57c0d7b74b563b49d38dae00a0c37d4d6de9b432382b2892f0574ddcae73fd0a"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "pbkdf2"
-version = "0.12.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f8ed6a7761f76e3b9f92dfb0a60a6a6477c61024b775147ff0973a02653abaf2"
-dependencies = [
- "digest 0.10.7",
- "hmac",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "pear"
 version = "0.2.9"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2c6500ca0d..9cdc6d3ce8 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -300,9 +300,9 @@ prometheus = { version = "0.13.0" }
 # coconut/DKG related
 # unfortunately until https://github.com/zkcrypto/bls12_381/issues/10 is resolved, we have to rely on the fork
 # as we need to be able to serialize Gt so that we could create the lookup table for baby-step-giant-step algorithm
-bls12_381 = { git = "https://github.com/jstuczyn/bls12_381", branch = "feature/gt-serialization-0.8.0" }
-group = "0.13.0"
-ff = "0.13.0"
+bls12_381 = { git = "https://github.com/jstuczyn/bls12_381", default-features = false,  branch = "feature/gt-serialization-0.8.0" }
+group = { version = "0.13.0", default-features = false }
+ff = { version = "0.13.0", default-features = false }
 
 # cosmwasm-related
 cosmwasm-derive = "=1.4.3"
@@ -321,14 +321,14 @@ cw4 = { version = "=1.1.2" }
 cw-controllers = { version = "=1.1.0" }
 
 # cosmrs-related
-bip32 = "0.5.1"
+bip32 = { version = "0.5.1", default-features = false }
 
 # temporarily using a fork again (yay.) because we need staking and slashing support
 cosmrs = { git = "https://github.com/jstuczyn/cosmos-rust", branch = "nym-temp/all-validator-features" }
 #cosmrs = {  git = "https://github.com/jstuczyn/cosmos-rust", branch = "nym-temp/all-validator-features" } # unfortuntely we need a fork by yours truly to get the staking support
 tendermint = "0.34"     # same version as used by cosmrs
 tendermint-rpc = "0.34" # same version as used by cosmrs
-prost = "0.12"
+prost = { version = "0.12", default-features = false }
 
 # wasm-related dependencies
 gloo-utils = "0.2.0"