diff --git a/Makefile.toml b/Makefile.toml
index 0df9a2811..8fc215bd0 100644
--- a/Makefile.toml
+++ b/Makefile.toml
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ args = ["build", "--release"]
 [tasks.build-no-std]
 description = "Build using no-std"
 command = "cargo"
-args = ["build", "--no-default-features", "--target", "wasm32-unknown-unknown", "--workspace", "--exclude", "miden-mock"]
+args = ["build", "--no-default-features", "--target", "wasm32-unknown-unknown", "--workspace", "--exclude", "miden-mock", "--exclude", "miden-bench-tx"]
 
 # --- benchmarking --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [tasks.bench-tx]
diff --git a/bench-tx/Cargo.toml b/bench-tx/Cargo.toml
index cf9dbff94..5ed48378e 100644
--- a/bench-tx/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bench-tx/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,16 +12,12 @@ exclude.workspace = true
 [[bin]]
 name = "bench-tx"
 path = "src/main.rs"
-required-features = ["std"]
-
-[features]
-std = ["miden-lib/std", "miden-objects/std", "miden-tx/std", "vm-processor/std", "mock/std", "serde_json/std"]
 
 [dependencies]
-miden-lib = { package = "miden-lib", path = "../miden-lib", version = "0.3", default-features = false }
-miden-objects = { package = "miden-objects", path = "../objects", version = "0.3", default-features = false }
-miden-tx = { package = "miden-tx", path = "../miden-tx", version = "0.3", default-features = false }
-mock = { package = "miden-mock", path = "../mock", features = ["std"], default-features = false, optional = true }
+miden-lib = { package = "miden-lib", path = "../miden-lib", version = "0.3" }
+miden-objects = { package = "miden-objects", path = "../objects", version = "0.3" }
+miden-tx = { package = "miden-tx", path = "../miden-tx", version = "0.3" }
+mock = { package = "miden-mock", path = "../mock"  }
 serde = { package = "serde", version = "1.0" }
 serde_json = { package = "serde_json", version = "1.0" }
-vm-processor = { workspace = true }
+vm-processor = { workspace = true, features = ["std"] }