diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6c27fac..f30f9c5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -432,6 +432,19 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures-core",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "async-compression"
+version = "0.4.13"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7e614738943d3f68c628ae3dbce7c3daffb196665f82f8c8ea6b65de73c79429"
+dependencies = [
+ "flate2",
+ "futures-core",
+ "memchr",
+ "pin-project-lite 0.2.11",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "async-io"
 version = "1.13.0"
@@ -7344,6 +7357,7 @@ version = "0.11.18"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "cde824a14b7c14f85caff81225f411faacc04a2013f41670f41443742b1c1c55"
 dependencies = [
+ "async-compression",
  "base64 0.21.2",
  "bytes",
  "encoding_rs",
@@ -7367,6 +7381,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_urlencoded",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-native-tls",
+ "tokio-util",
  "tower-service",
  "url",
  "wasm-bindgen",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 07d23d1..7baf9d7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ sha3 = { version = "0.9", default-features = false }
 stability-rpc = { path = "./stability-rpc", default-features = false }
 stability-rpc-api = { path = "./primitives/stability-rpc-api", default-features = false }
 stbl-transaction-validator = { path = "./primitives/transaction-validator", default-features = false }
-reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = ["json"] }
+reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = ["json", "gzip"] }
 
 # Arkworks
 ark-bls12-377 = { version = "0.4.0", default-features = false, features = ["curve"] }
diff --git a/client/authorship/Cargo.toml b/client/authorship/Cargo.toml
index 6cf1efa..65b9eb0 100644
--- a/client/authorship/Cargo.toml
+++ b/client/authorship/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ sp-keystore = { workspace = true }
 stability-runtime = { path = "./../../runtime", features = ["std"] }
 sc-service = { workspace = true }
 account = { workspace = true, features = ["std"] }
-reqwest = { workspace = true, features = ["json"] }
+reqwest = { workspace = true, features = ["json", "gzip"] }
 serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
 bytes = { workspace = true }
 hex = { workspace = true }