diff --git a/consensus/Cargo.toml b/consensus/Cargo.toml
index 89d1f2ed0e..2b486ef7de 100644
--- a/consensus/Cargo.toml
+++ b/consensus/Cargo.toml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ nimiq-primitives = { workspace = true, features = ["policy", "trie"] }
 nimiq-serde = { workspace = true }
 nimiq-time = { workspace = true }
 nimiq-transaction = { workspace = true }
-nimiq-utils = { workspace = true, features = ["merkle", "spawn", "time"] }
+nimiq-utils = { workspace = true, features = ["futures", "merkle", "spawn", "time"] }
 nimiq-zkp-component = { workspace = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/handel/Cargo.toml b/handel/Cargo.toml
index d3c031da75..f7ed528ca4 100644
--- a/handel/Cargo.toml
+++ b/handel/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ nimiq-collections = { workspace = true }
 nimiq-hash = { workspace = true }
 nimiq-serde = { workspace = true }
 nimiq-time = { workspace = true }
-nimiq-utils = { workspace = true }
+nimiq-utils = { workspace = true, features = ["futures"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 nimiq-network-interface = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/tendermint/Cargo.toml b/tendermint/Cargo.toml
index 24efa59d44..397de0c513 100644
--- a/tendermint/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tendermint/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ tokio = { version = "1.39", features = [
 tokio-stream = "0.1"
 
 nimiq-collections = { workspace = true }
-nimiq-utils = { workspace = true }
+nimiq-utils = { workspace = true, features = ["futures"] }
 nimiq-time = { workspace = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/utils/Cargo.toml b/utils/Cargo.toml
index 3feb3d6c20..04e20c4023 100644
--- a/utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ workspace = true
 
 [dependencies]
 clear_on_drop = { version = "0.2", optional = true }
-futures = { workspace = true }
+futures = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 hex = { version = "0.4", optional = true }
 libp2p-identity = { version = "0.2", optional = true }
 log = { workspace = true, optional = true }
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ nimiq-test-utils = { workspace = true }
 
 [features]
 crc = []
+futures = ["dep:futures"]
 key-rng = ["rand", "rand_core"]
 key-store = ["log", "thiserror"]
 libp2p = ["libp2p-identity"]
diff --git a/utils/src/lib.rs b/utils/src/lib.rs
index c405e56136..f4c3f341de 100644
--- a/utils/src/lib.rs
+++ b/utils/src/lib.rs
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ pub mod tagged_signing;
 #[cfg(feature = "time")]
 pub mod time;
 
+#[cfg(feature = "futures")]
 pub mod stream;
 
 mod sensitive;
diff --git a/validator-network/Cargo.toml b/validator-network/Cargo.toml
index 1e2f6f53c9..65c6955e3c 100644
--- a/validator-network/Cargo.toml
+++ b/validator-network/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,4 +32,4 @@ tokio = { version = "1.39", features = ["rt"] }
 nimiq-bls = { workspace = true, features = ["lazy", "serde-derive"] }
 nimiq-network-interface = { workspace = true }
 nimiq-serde = { workspace = true }
-nimiq-utils = { workspace = true, features = ["spawn", "tagged-signing"] }
+nimiq-utils = { workspace = true, features = ["futures", "spawn", "tagged-signing"] }
diff --git a/validator/Cargo.toml b/validator/Cargo.toml
index 6b197e2664..2dd91104de 100644
--- a/validator/Cargo.toml
+++ b/validator/Cargo.toml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ nimiq-serde = { workspace = true }
 nimiq-tendermint = { workspace = true }
 nimiq-time = { workspace = true }
 nimiq-transaction-builder = { workspace = true }
-nimiq-utils = { workspace = true, features = ["time"] }
+nimiq-utils = { workspace = true, features = ["futures", "time"] }
 nimiq-validator-network = { workspace = true }
 nimiq-vrf = { workspace = true }
 
diff --git a/zkp-component/Cargo.toml b/zkp-component/Cargo.toml
index 123ce2dbe0..b777291a76 100644
--- a/zkp-component/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zkp-component/Cargo.toml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ nimiq-network-interface = { workspace = true }
 nimiq-primitives = { workspace = true, features = ["policy"] }
 nimiq-serde = { workspace = true }
 nimiq-transaction = { workspace = true }
-nimiq-utils = { workspace = true, features = ["merkle", "spawn", "time"] }
+nimiq-utils = { workspace = true, features = ["futures", "merkle", "spawn", "time"] }
 nimiq-zkp = { workspace = true }
 nimiq-zkp-circuits = { workspace = true }
 nimiq-zkp-primitives = { workspace = true }