diff --git a/nym-credential-proxy/Cargo.toml b/nym-credential-proxy/Cargo.toml
index b3ebb7f459..07e82599d0 100644
--- a/nym-credential-proxy/Cargo.toml
+++ b/nym-credential-proxy/Cargo.toml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ futures = "0.3.30"
 humantime = "2.1.0"
 thiserror = "1.0.59"
 rand = "0.8.5"
-reqwest = "0.12.4"
+reqwest = { version = "0.12.4", default-features = false }
 schemars = "0.8.17"
 strum = "0.26.3"
 strum_macros = "0.26.4"
diff --git a/nym-credential-proxy/nym-credential-proxy-requests/Cargo.toml b/nym-credential-proxy/nym-credential-proxy-requests/Cargo.toml
index 462fa8a4c1..86e281eb8a 100644
--- a/nym-credential-proxy/nym-credential-proxy-requests/Cargo.toml
+++ b/nym-credential-proxy/nym-credential-proxy-requests/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json.workspace = true
 time = { workspace = true, features = ["serde", "formatting", "parsing"] }
 tsify = { workspace = true, optional = true }
-reqwest = { workspace = true, features = ["json"] }
+reqwest = { workspace = true, features = ["json", "rustls-tls"] }
 wasm-bindgen = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 
 ## openapi: