diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 07318a6..a69c3f9 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -1,35 +1,47 @@
 PATH
   remote: .
   specs:
-    scale.rb (0.2.19)
+    scale.rb (0.2.38)
       base58
-      blake2b_rs (~> 0.1.2)
+      blake2b
       faye-websocket
       json (~> 2.3.0)
-      thor (~> 1.0)
+      rest-client
+      thor (~> 0.19)
       xxhash
 
 GEM
   remote: https://rubygems.org/
   specs:
     base58 (0.2.3)
-    blake2b_rs (0.1.2)
-      ffi (= 1.15.0)
-      thermite (~> 0)
+    blake2b (0.10.0)
     coderay (1.1.3)
     diff-lcs (1.4.4)
+    domain_name (0.5.20190701)
+      unf (>= 0.0.5, < 1.0.0)
     eventmachine (1.2.7)
-    faye-websocket (0.11.0)
+    faye-websocket (0.11.1)
       eventmachine (>= 0.12.0)
       websocket-driver (>= 0.5.1)
     ffi (1.15.0)
+    http-accept (1.7.0)
+    http-cookie (1.0.4)
+      domain_name (~> 0.5)
     json (2.3.1)
     method_source (1.0.0)
-    minitar (0.9)
+    mime-types (3.4.1)
+      mime-types-data (~> 3.2015)
+    mime-types-data (3.2022.0105)
+    netrc (0.11.0)
     pry (0.14.0)
       coderay (~> 1.1)
       method_source (~> 1.0)
     rake (13.0.3)
+    rest-client (2.1.0)
+      http-accept (>= 1.7.0, < 2.0)
+      http-cookie (>= 1.0.2, < 2.0)
+      mime-types (>= 1.16, < 4.0)
+      netrc (~> 0.8)
     rspec (3.10.0)
       rspec-core (~> 3.10.0)
       rspec-expectations (~> 3.10.0)
@@ -43,13 +55,11 @@ GEM
       diff-lcs (>= 1.2.0, < 2.0)
       rspec-support (~> 3.10.0)
     rspec-support (3.10.2)
-    thermite (0.13.0)
-      minitar (~> 0.5)
-      rake (>= 10)
-      tomlrb (~> 1.2)
-    thor (1.1.0)
-    tomlrb (1.3.0)
-    websocket-driver (0.7.3)
+    thor (0.20.3)
+    unf (0.1.4)
+      unf_ext
+    unf_ext (0.0.8.1)
+    websocket-driver (0.7.5)
       websocket-extensions (>= 0.1.0)
     websocket-extensions (0.1.5)
     xxhash (0.4.0)
diff --git a/lib/substrate_client.rb b/lib/substrate_client.rb
index 02d9645..6ae33b6 100644
--- a/lib/substrate_client.rb
+++ b/lib/substrate_client.rb
@@ -28,9 +28,17 @@ def ws_request(url, payload)
     end
   end
 
+  result = http_request(url, payload) if result.nil?
   result
 end
 
+def http_request(url, payload)
+  r = RestClient.post(url, payload.to_json, { content_type: :json, accept: :json })
+  JSON.parse(r.body)
+rescue => ex
+  { "error": ex.message }
+end
+
 class SubstrateClient
   class WebsocketError < StandardError; end
   class RpcError < StandardError; end
diff --git a/scale.gemspec b/scale.gemspec
index bc156e9..387e101 100644
--- a/scale.gemspec
+++ b/scale.gemspec
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.add_dependency "json", "~> 2.3.0"
   spec.add_dependency "faye-websocket"
   spec.add_dependency "thor", '~> 0.19'
+  spec.add_dependency "rest-client"
 
   spec.add_development_dependency "bundler"
   spec.add_development_dependency "pry"