diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 114e99007c..2371578938 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4357,7 +4357,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures",
  "human_bytes",
  "jsonrpsee",
- "metrics",
  "metrics-exporter-prometheus",
  "metrics-util",
  "proptest",
@@ -4365,8 +4364,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "reth-db",
  "reth-discv4",
  "reth-downloaders",
- "reth-eth-wire",
- "reth-executor",
  "reth-interfaces",
  "reth-net-nat",
  "reth-network",
@@ -4386,12 +4383,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "shellexpand",
  "tempfile",
- "thiserror",
  "tokio",
- "tokio-stream",
  "tracing",
  "tui",
- "walkdir",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/bin/reth/Cargo.toml b/bin/reth/Cargo.toml
index fea91f9e8b..947ef36a6b 100644
--- a/bin/reth/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bin/reth/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ reth-stages = { path = "../../crates/stages"}
 reth-interfaces = { path = "../../crates/interfaces", features = ["test-utils"] }
 reth-transaction-pool = { path = "../../crates/transaction-pool", features = ["test-utils"] }
 reth-consensus = { path = "../../crates/consensus" }
-reth-executor = { path = "../../crates/executor" }
-reth-eth-wire = { path = "../../crates/net/eth-wire" }
 reth-rpc-engine-api = { path = "../../crates/rpc/rpc-engine-api" }
 reth-rpc-builder = { path = "../../crates/rpc/rpc-builder" }
 reth-rpc = { path = "../../crates/rpc/rpc" }
@@ -36,7 +34,6 @@ tracing = "0.1"
 
 # io
 fdlimit = "0.2.1"
-walkdir = "2.3"
 serde = "1.0"
 serde_json = "1.0"
 shellexpand = "3.0.0"
@@ -44,7 +41,6 @@ dirs-next = "2.0.0"
 confy = "0.5"
 
 # rpc/metrics
-metrics = "0.20.1"
 metrics-exporter-prometheus = { version = "0.11.0", features = ["http-listener"] }
 metrics-util = "0.14.0"
 
@@ -54,9 +50,7 @@ proptest = "1.0"
 # misc
 eyre = "0.6.8"
 clap = { version = "4.0", features = ["derive", "cargo"] }
-thiserror = "1.0"
 tokio = { version = "1.21", features = ["sync", "macros", "rt-multi-thread"] }
-tokio-stream = "0.1"
 futures = "0.3.25"
 tempfile = { version = "3.3.0" }
 backon = "0.4"
diff --git a/bin/reth/src/lib.rs b/bin/reth/src/lib.rs
index d22105b050..36ebcf6324 100644
--- a/bin/reth/src/lib.rs
+++ b/bin/reth/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#![warn(missing_docs, unreachable_pub)]
+#![warn(missing_docs, unreachable_pub, unused_crate_dependencies)]
 #![deny(unused_must_use, rust_2018_idioms)]
 #![doc(test(
     no_crate_inject,