diff --git a/subxt/Cargo.toml b/subxt/Cargo.toml
index e8fab06d7e..9743b49dd8 100644
--- a/subxt/Cargo.toml
+++ b/subxt/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ native = [
     "subxt-lightclient?/native",
     "tokio-util",
     "tokio?/sync",
+    "polkadot-sdk/std",
 ]
 
 # Enable this for web/wasm builds.