diff --git a/zebra-chain/Cargo.toml b/zebra-chain/Cargo.toml
index f86196dd6..c78aae3da 100644
--- a/zebra-chain/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zebra-chain/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,6 +11,5 @@ edition = "2018"
 thiserror = "1"
 byteorder = "1.3"
 chrono = "0.4"
-failure = "0.1"
 hex = "0.4"
 sha2 = "0.8"