diff --git a/dask_cuda/__init__.py b/dask_cuda/__init__.py
index c33fae213..0d72efd89 100644
--- a/dask_cuda/__init__.py
+++ b/dask_cuda/__init__.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 __version__ = "23.10.00"
 
+from . import compat
 
 # Monkey patching Dask to make use of explicit-comms when `DASK_EXPLICIT_COMMS=True`
 dask.dataframe.shuffle.rearrange_by_column = get_rearrange_by_column_wrapper(
diff --git a/dask_cuda/compat.py b/dask_cuda/compat.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1c09337b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dask_cuda/compat.py
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+import pickle
+
+import msgpack
+from packaging.version import Version
+
+import dask
+import distributed
+import distributed.comm.utils
+import distributed.protocol
+from distributed.comm.utils import OFFLOAD_THRESHOLD, nbytes, offload
+from distributed.protocol.core import (
+    Serialized,
+    decompress,
+    logger,
+    merge_and_deserialize,
+    msgpack_decode_default,
+    msgpack_opts,
+)
+
+if Version(distributed.__version__) >= Version("2023.8.1"):
+    # Monkey-patch protocol.core.loads (and its users)
+    async def from_frames(
+        frames, deserialize=True, deserializers=None, allow_offload=True
+    ):
+        """
+        Unserialize a list of Distributed protocol frames.
+        """
+        size = False
+
+        def _from_frames():
+            try:
+                # Patched code
+                return loads(
+                    frames, deserialize=deserialize, deserializers=deserializers
+                )
+                # end patched code
+            except EOFError:
+                if size > 1000:
+                    datastr = "[too large to display]"
+                else:
+                    datastr = frames
+                # Aid diagnosing
+                logger.error("truncated data stream (%d bytes): %s", size, datastr)
+                raise
+
+        if allow_offload and deserialize and OFFLOAD_THRESHOLD:
+            size = sum(map(nbytes, frames))
+        if (
+            allow_offload
+            and deserialize
+            and OFFLOAD_THRESHOLD
+            and size > OFFLOAD_THRESHOLD
+        ):
+            res = await offload(_from_frames)
+        else:
+            res = _from_frames()
+
+        return res
+
+    def loads(frames, deserialize=True, deserializers=None):
+        """Transform bytestream back into Python value"""
+
+        allow_pickle = dask.config.get("distributed.scheduler.pickle")
+
+        try:
+
+            def _decode_default(obj):
+                offset = obj.get("__Serialized__", 0)
+                if offset > 0:
+                    sub_header = msgpack.loads(
+                        frames[offset],
+                        object_hook=msgpack_decode_default,
+                        use_list=False,
+                        **msgpack_opts,
+                    )
+                    offset += 1
+                    sub_frames = frames[offset : offset + sub_header["num-sub-frames"]]
+                    if deserialize:
+                        if "compression" in sub_header:
+                            sub_frames = decompress(sub_header, sub_frames)
+                        return merge_and_deserialize(
+                            sub_header, sub_frames, deserializers=deserializers
+                        )
+                    else:
+                        return Serialized(sub_header, sub_frames)
+
+                offset = obj.get("__Pickled__", 0)
+                if offset > 0:
+                    sub_header = msgpack.loads(frames[offset])
+                    offset += 1
+                    sub_frames = frames[offset : offset + sub_header["num-sub-frames"]]
+                    # Patched code
+                    if "compression" in sub_header:
+                        sub_frames = decompress(sub_header, sub_frames)
+                    # end patched code
+                    if allow_pickle:
+                        return pickle.loads(
+                            sub_header["pickled-obj"], buffers=sub_frames
+                        )
+                    else:
+                        raise ValueError(
+                            "Unpickle on the Scheduler isn't allowed, "
+                            "set `distributed.scheduler.pickle=true`"
+                        )
+
+                return msgpack_decode_default(obj)
+
+            return msgpack.loads(
+                frames[0], object_hook=_decode_default, use_list=False, **msgpack_opts
+            )
+
+        except Exception:
+            logger.critical("Failed to deserialize", exc_info=True)
+            raise
+
+    distributed.protocol.loads = loads
+    distributed.protocol.core.loads = loads
+    distributed.comm.utils.from_frames = from_frames
diff --git a/dask_cuda/tests/test_from_array.py b/dask_cuda/tests/test_from_array.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..33f27d6fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dask_cuda/tests/test_from_array.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import pytest
+
+import dask.array as da
+from distributed import Client
+
+from dask_cuda import LocalCUDACluster
+
+pytest.importorskip("ucp")
+cupy = pytest.importorskip("cupy")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("protocol", ["ucx", "tcp"])
+def test_ucx_from_array(protocol):
+    N = 10_000
+    with LocalCUDACluster(protocol=protocol) as cluster:
+        with Client(cluster):
+            val = da.from_array(cupy.arange(N), chunks=(N // 10,)).sum().compute()
+            assert val == (N * (N - 1)) // 2