diff --git a/.cargo/config.toml b/.cargo/config.toml
index aeeacca0145..934b5126f60 100644
--- a/.cargo/config.toml
+++ b/.cargo/config.toml
@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
 [target.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu]
-rustflags = ["-Ctarget-cpu=x86-64-v2"]
+rustflags = [
+    "-Ctarget-cpu=x86-64-v3",
+    "-Ctarget-feature=+avx2,+sse2,+ssse3,+sse4.1,+sse4.2,+bmi1,+lzcnt,+pclmulqdq",
+]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0a00799c305..2e2b999114a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ hex-literal = "0.4.1"
 crc32fast = "1.4.2"
 lazy_static = "1.5.0"
 sha2 = "0.10.8"
-sha3 = "0.10.8"
+sha3 = { version = "0.10.8", features = ["asm"] }
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7.15", features = ["rt"] }
 jsonwebtoken = "9.3.0"
 rand = "0.8.5"
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/common/crypto/Cargo.toml b/crates/common/crypto/Cargo.toml
index 4d81a6d6ac0..c9e9c761904 100644
--- a/crates/common/crypto/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/common/crypto/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ path = "./lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
 # TODO(#1102): Move to Lambdaworks in the future
-c-kzg = { version = "2.1.1", optional = true }
+c-kzg = { version = "2.1.1", default-features = false, optional = true, features = [
+    "ethereum_kzg_settings",
+    "std",
+] }
 kzg-rs.workspace = true
 
 thiserror.workspace = true
diff --git a/crates/networking/p2p/Cargo.toml b/crates/networking/p2p/Cargo.toml
index f321678fff8..6bd308bc3fe 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 ad9729aa08a..aa22f5e3eab 100644
--- a/crates/networking/rpc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/networking/rpc/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ ethrex-common.workspace = true
 ethrex-storage.workspace = true
 ethrex-vm.workspace = true
 ethrex-blockchain.workspace = true
-ethrex-p2p = {workspace = true, features = ["test-utils"]}
+ethrex-p2p = { workspace = true, features = ["test-utils"] }
 ethrex-rlp.workspace = true
 ethrex-trie.workspace = true
 ethrex-storage-rollup = { workspace = true, optional = true }
@@ -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",
+] }
 spawned-rt.workspace = true
 spawned-concurrency.workspace = true
 
diff --git a/crates/vm/levm/Cargo.toml b/crates/vm/levm/Cargo.toml
index b2fdf9a43b1..5d92465ef8d 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
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ bls12_381 = { git = "https://github.com/lambdaclass/bls12_381", branch = "expose
 ] }
 ark-bn254 = "0.5.0"
 ark-ec = "0.5.0"
-ark-ff = "0.5.0"
+ark-ff = { version = "0.5.0", features = ["asm"] }
 strum = { version = "0.27.1", features = ["derive"] }
 k256 = "0.13.4"
 substrate-bn = { version = "0.6.0", optional = true }