diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ba1fb92319..cdeddfc727 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -7020,6 +7020,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-subscriber",
  "url",
  "wasmtimer",
+ "webpki-roots 0.26.11",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/common/http-api-client/Cargo.toml b/common/http-api-client/Cargo.toml
index 6c28d77128..3f577c5d91 100644
--- a/common/http-api-client/Cargo.toml
+++ b/common/http-api-client/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ itertools = { workspace = true }
 inventory = { workspace = true }
 fastrand = { workspace = true }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt", "macros", "time"] }
-rustls = { workspace=true }
+rustls = { workspace = true, features = ["aws_lc_rs"] }
+# Android: preconfigured webpki roots replace the JNI-bound platform verifier
+# (see registry.rs); a standalone sidecar process can't init the platform store.
+webpki-roots = { workspace = true }
 # used for decoding text responses (they were already implicitly included)
 bytes = { workspace = true }
 encoding_rs = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/common/http-api-client/src/registry.rs b/common/http-api-client/src/registry.rs
index 4e09570dd9..03cb945063 100644
--- a/common/http-api-client/src/registry.rs
+++ b/common/http-api-client/src/registry.rs
@@ -66,6 +66,28 @@ pub fn default_builder() -> ReqwestClientBuilder {
         }
     }
 
+    // On Android the default rustls verifier (rustls-platform-verifier) reaches
+    // the system trust store through JNI and must be initialized with the app's
+    // Java context. A standalone client process (e.g. Goblin's bundled SOCKS5
+    // sidecar) has no such context, so the verifier panics
+    // ("Expect rustls-platform-verifier to be initialized") the moment it makes
+    // its first HTTPS call to the nym-api. Per Nym's own troubleshooting docs,
+    // pin preconfigured webpki roots instead so HTTPS verifies without the
+    // platform store. Desktop/Windows keep the default verifier.
+    #[cfg(target_os = "android")]
+    {
+        let mut roots = rustls::RootCertStore::empty();
+        roots.extend(webpki_roots::TLS_SERVER_ROOTS.iter().cloned());
+        let tls = rustls::ClientConfig::builder_with_provider(std::sync::Arc::new(
+            rustls::crypto::aws_lc_rs::default_provider(),
+        ))
+        .with_safe_default_protocol_versions()
+        .expect("aws-lc-rs provides the safe default protocol versions")
+        .with_root_certificates(roots)
+        .with_no_client_auth();
+        b = b.use_preconfigured_tls(tls);
+    }
+
     b
 }