diff --git a/benchmarks/Cargo.toml b/benchmarks/Cargo.toml
index cc8f540ad..0e5737d30 100644
--- a/benchmarks/Cargo.toml
+++ b/benchmarks/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ codspeed = []
 assert_matches.workspace = true
 criterion = { version = "4.2.1", features = ["async", "async_tokio", "html_reports"], package = "codspeed-criterion-compat" }
 futures-util.workspace = true
-matrix-sdk = { workspace = true, features = ["rustls-tls", "e2e-encryption", "sqlite", "testing"] }
+matrix-sdk = { workspace = true, features = ["e2e-encryption", "sqlite", "testing"] }
 matrix-sdk-base.workspace = true
 matrix-sdk-crypto.workspace = true
 matrix-sdk-sqlite = { workspace = true, features = ["crypto-store"] }