diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f5fc14cada3..2097f33659b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4616,15 +4616,12 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 name = "vm"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
- "byteorder 1.2.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "ethereum-types 0.6.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "ethjson 0.1.0",
  "keccak-hash 0.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "log 0.4.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "parity-bytes 0.1.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "patricia-trie-ethereum 0.1.0",
  "rlp 0.4.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "trie-db 0.12.4 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/ethcore/vm/Cargo.toml b/ethcore/vm/Cargo.toml
index 7a3768e1e06..4031b1936d8 100644
--- a/ethcore/vm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ethcore/vm/Cargo.toml
@@ -5,12 +5,9 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 authors = ["Parity Technologies <admin@parity.io>"]
 
 [dependencies]
-byteorder = "1.0"
 parity-bytes = "0.1"
 ethereum-types = "0.6.0"
-trie-db = "0.12.4"
 patricia-trie-ethereum = { path = "../../util/patricia-trie-ethereum" }
-log = "0.4"
 ethjson = { path = "../../json" }
 rlp = "0.4.0"
 keccak-hash = "0.2.0"
diff --git a/ethcore/vm/src/lib.rs b/ethcore/vm/src/lib.rs
index f239e405680..4204ff92dc5 100644
--- a/ethcore/vm/src/lib.rs
+++ b/ethcore/vm/src/lib.rs
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ extern crate ethjson;
 extern crate rlp;
 extern crate keccak_hash as hash;
 extern crate patricia_trie_ethereum as ethtrie;
-extern crate trie_db as trie;
 
 mod action_params;
 mod call_type;