diff --git a/vdr/Cargo.lock b/vdr/Cargo.lock
index 36a26d3f..2f499e4b 100644
--- a/vdr/Cargo.lock
+++ b/vdr/Cargo.lock
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # This file is automatically @generated by Cargo.
 # It is not intended for manual editing.
-version = 3
+version = 4
 
 [[package]]
 name = "addr2line"
@@ -1311,6 +1311,20 @@ dependencies = [
  "want",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "hyper-rustls"
+version = "0.24.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ec3efd23720e2049821a693cbc7e65ea87c72f1c58ff2f9522ff332b1491e590"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures-util",
+ "http 0.2.11",
+ "hyper",
+ "rustls 0.21.12",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-rustls 0.24.1",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hyper-tls"
 version = "0.5.0"
@@ -2226,6 +2240,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "http 0.2.11",
  "http-body",
  "hyper",
+ "hyper-rustls",
  "hyper-tls",
  "ipnet",
  "js-sys",
@@ -2235,6 +2250,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
  "percent-encoding",
  "pin-project-lite",
+ "rustls 0.21.12",
  "rustls-pemfile",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
@@ -2243,11 +2259,13 @@ dependencies = [
  "system-configuration",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-native-tls",
+ "tokio-rustls 0.24.1",
  "tower-service",
  "url",
  "wasm-bindgen",
  "wasm-bindgen-futures",
  "web-sys",
+ "webpki-roots 0.25.4",
  "winreg",
 ]
 
@@ -2261,6 +2279,21 @@ dependencies = [
  "subtle",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ring"
+version = "0.17.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c17fa4cb658e3583423e915b9f3acc01cceaee1860e33d59ebae66adc3a2dc0d"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "cfg-if",
+ "getrandom",
+ "libc",
+ "spin",
+ "untrusted",
+ "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rlp"
 version = "0.5.2"
@@ -2360,6 +2393,32 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rustls"
+version = "0.21.12"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3f56a14d1f48b391359b22f731fd4bd7e43c97f3c50eee276f3aa09c94784d3e"
+dependencies = [
+ "log",
+ "ring",
+ "rustls-webpki 0.101.7",
+ "sct",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "rustls"
+version = "0.22.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bf4ef73721ac7bcd79b2b315da7779d8fc09718c6b3d2d1b2d94850eb8c18432"
+dependencies = [
+ "log",
+ "ring",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+ "rustls-webpki 0.102.8",
+ "subtle",
+ "zeroize",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustls-pemfile"
 version = "1.0.4"
@@ -2369,6 +2428,33 @@ dependencies = [
  "base64 0.21.7",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rustls-pki-types"
+version = "1.10.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "16f1201b3c9a7ee8039bcadc17b7e605e2945b27eee7631788c1bd2b0643674b"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "rustls-webpki"
+version = "0.101.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8b6275d1ee7a1cd780b64aca7726599a1dbc893b1e64144529e55c3c2f745765"
+dependencies = [
+ "ring",
+ "untrusted",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "rustls-webpki"
+version = "0.102.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "64ca1bc8749bd4cf37b5ce386cc146580777b4e8572c7b97baf22c83f444bee9"
+dependencies = [
+ "ring",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+ "untrusted",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustversion"
 version = "1.0.14"
@@ -2421,6 +2507,16 @@ version = "1.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "94143f37725109f92c262ed2cf5e59bce7498c01bcc1502d7b9afe439a4e9f49"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "sct"
+version = "0.7.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "da046153aa2352493d6cb7da4b6e5c0c057d8a1d0a9aa8560baffdd945acd414"
+dependencies = [
+ "ring",
+ "untrusted",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "sec1"
 version = "0.7.3"
@@ -2657,6 +2753,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "sha-1",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "spin"
+version = "0.9.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6980e8d7511241f8acf4aebddbb1ff938df5eebe98691418c4468d0b72a96a67"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "spki"
 version = "0.7.3"
@@ -2873,6 +2975,27 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tokio-rustls"
+version = "0.24.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c28327cf380ac148141087fbfb9de9d7bd4e84ab5d2c28fbc911d753de8a7081"
+dependencies = [
+ "rustls 0.21.12",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tokio-rustls"
+version = "0.25.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "775e0c0f0adb3a2f22a00c4745d728b479985fc15ee7ca6a2608388c5569860f"
+dependencies = [
+ "rustls 0.22.4",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-stream"
 version = "0.1.14"
@@ -3029,6 +3152,12 @@ version = "0.2.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f962df74c8c05a667b5ee8bcf162993134c104e96440b663c8daa176dc772d8c"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "untrusted"
+version = "0.9.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8ecb6da28b8a351d773b68d5825ac39017e680750f980f3a1a85cd8dd28a47c1"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "url"
 version = "2.5.0"
@@ -3181,6 +3310,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rand",
  "reqwest",
  "rlp",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
  "secp256k1",
  "serde",
  "serde-wasm-bindgen",
@@ -3188,24 +3318,28 @@ dependencies = [
  "soketto",
  "tiny-keccak",
  "tokio",
+ "tokio-rustls 0.25.0",
  "tokio-stream",
  "tokio-util",
  "url",
  "wasm-bindgen",
  "wasm-bindgen-futures",
- "web3-async-native-tls",
+ "webpki-roots 0.26.7",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
-name = "web3-async-native-tls"
-version = "0.4.0"
+name = "webpki-roots"
+version = "0.25.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5f20c57d8d7db6d3b86154206ae5d8fba62dd39573114de97c2cb0578251f8e1"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "webpki-roots"
+version = "0.26.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1f6d8d1636b2627fe63518d5a9b38a569405d9c9bc665c43c9c341de57227ebb"
+checksum = "5d642ff16b7e79272ae451b7322067cdc17cadf68c23264be9d94a32319efe7e"
 dependencies = [
- "native-tls",
- "thiserror",
- "tokio",
- "url",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/vdr/Cargo.toml b/vdr/Cargo.toml
index 917be855..a358696a 100644
--- a/vdr/Cargo.toml
+++ b/vdr/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ serde = "1.0.188"
 serde_derive = "1.0.188"
 serde_json = "1.0.107"
 thiserror = "1.0.49"
-web3 = { version = "0.20.0", optional = true }
+web3 = { version = "0.20.0", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["http-rustls-tls", "ws-rustls-tokio", "signing", "ipc-tokio"] }
 web-sys = { version = "0.3.64", optional = true, features = ["Window"] }
 web3-wasm = { package = "web3", version = "0.20.0", default-features = false, features = ["wasm", "http", "http-tls"], optional = true }
 jsonrpc-core = "18.0.0"