diff --git a/.cargo/config.toml b/.cargo/config.toml
index aeeacca0145..3c612e24e8f 100644
--- a/.cargo/config.toml
+++ b/.cargo/config.toml
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 [target.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu]
-rustflags = ["-Ctarget-cpu=x86-64-v2"]
+rustflags = ["-Ctarget-cpu=x86-64-v2", "-Csha2_backend=x86-avx2"]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0a00799c305..3507060fbf2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ secp256k1 = { version = "0.30.0", default-features = false, features = [
   "recovery",
   "rand",
 ] }
+keccak = { version = "0.1.5", features = ["simd"] }
 axum = { version = "0.8.1" }
 clap = { version = "4.3", features = ["derive", "env"] }
 clap_complete = "4.5.17"
diff --git a/crates/blockchain/payload.rs b/crates/blockchain/payload.rs
index 40d0b3f7213..c3b1d845b00 100644
--- a/crates/blockchain/payload.rs
+++ b/crates/blockchain/payload.rs
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ use crate::{
 };
 
 use thiserror::Error;
-use tracing::{debug, error, warn};
+use tracing::{debug, warn};
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct PayloadBuildTask {
diff --git a/crates/networking/p2p/Cargo.toml b/crates/networking/p2p/Cargo.toml
index ce819dc570d..4949ab6198a 100644
--- a/crates/networking/p2p/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/networking/p2p/Cargo.toml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ rocksdb = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 prometheus = "0.14.0"
 
 tokio-stream = "0.1.17"
-sha3 = "0.10.8"
+sha3.workspace = true
 
 serde_json = "1.0.117"
 
diff --git a/crates/networking/rpc/Cargo.toml b/crates/networking/rpc/Cargo.toml
index 513016d088e..db811a5a46f 100644
--- a/crates/networking/rpc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/networking/rpc/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,9 +32,12 @@ jsonwebtoken.workspace = true
 rand.workspace = true
 tokio-util = { workspace = true, features = ["codec"] }
 reqwest.workspace = true
-sha3 = "0.10.8"
+sha3.workspace = true
 sha2.workspace = true
-jemalloc_pprof = { version = "0.8.0", optional = true, features = ["flamegraph", "symbolize"] }
+jemalloc_pprof = { version = "0.8.0", optional = true, features = [
+    "flamegraph",
+    "symbolize",
+] }
 
 # Clients
 envy = "0.4.2"
diff --git a/crates/vm/levm/Cargo.toml b/crates/vm/levm/Cargo.toml
index b2fdf9a43b1..e24dc844412 100644
--- a/crates/vm/levm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/vm/levm/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ thiserror.workspace = true
 serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive", "rc"] }
 serde_json.workspace = true
 
-sha3 = "0.10.8"
+sha3.workspace = true
 datatest-stable = "0.2.9"
 walkdir = "2.5.0"
 secp256k1.workspace = true
diff --git a/rust-toolchain.toml b/rust-toolchain.toml
index 2ce412d5ad4..fe739d6f045 100644
--- a/rust-toolchain.toml
+++ b/rust-toolchain.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 [toolchain]
-channel = "1.90.0"
 profile = "default"
+#channel = "1.90.0"
+channel = "nightly-2025-10-31"