diff --git a/.cargo/config.toml b/.cargo/config.toml
index b754c2e48ef..dbf3919a4c6 100644
--- a/.cargo/config.toml
+++ b/.cargo/config.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 rustflags = ["--cfg", "tokio_unstable"]
 
 [target.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu]
-rustflags = ["-C", "link-arg=-fuse-ld=lld", "-C", "link-arg=-Wl,--compress-debug-sections=zlib", "--cfg", "tokio_unstable"]
+linker = "clang"
+rustflags = ["-C", "link-arg=-fuse-ld=mold", "-C", "link-arg=-Wl,--compress-debug-sections=zlib", "--cfg", "tokio_unstable"]
 
 # mold is currently broken on MacOS
 # [target.aarch64-apple-darwin]
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index 075f50370f3..74d2f7345d7 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -34,6 +34,32 @@
               (final: prev: {
                 cargo-udeps = pkgs-unstable.cargo-udeps;
 
+                # mold wrapper from https://discourse.nixos.org/t/using-mold-as-linker-prevents-libraries-from-being-found/18530/5
+                mold =
+                  let
+                    bintools-wrapper = "${nixpkgs}/pkgs/build-support/bintools-wrapper";
+                  in
+                  prev.symlinkJoin {
+                    name = "mold";
+                    paths = [ prev.mold ];
+                    nativeBuildInputs = [ prev.makeWrapper ];
+                    suffixSalt = lib.replaceStrings [ "-" "." ] [ "_" "_" ] prev.targetPlatform.config;
+                    postBuild = ''
+                      for bin in ${prev.mold}/bin/*; do
+                        rm $out/bin/"$(basename "$bin")"
+
+                        export prog="$bin"
+                        substituteAll "${bintools-wrapper}/ld-wrapper.sh" $out/bin/"$(basename "$bin")"
+                        chmod +x $out/bin/"$(basename "$bin")"
+
+                        mkdir -p $out/nix-support
+                        substituteAll "${bintools-wrapper}/add-flags.sh" $out/nix-support/add-flags.sh
+                        substituteAll "${bintools-wrapper}/add-hardening.sh" $out/nix-support/add-hardening.sh
+                        substituteAll "${bintools-wrapper}/../wrapper-common/utils.bash" $out/nix-support/utils.bash
+                      done
+                    '';
+                  };
+
                 # Note: we are using cargo-nextest from pkgs-unstable because it has some fixes we need
                 # Note: shell script adding DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH because of: https://github.com/nextest-rs/nextest/issues/962
                 cargo-nextest = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "cargo-nextest" "exec env DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=\"$(dirname $(which rustc))/../lib\" ${pkgs-unstable.cargo-nextest}/bin/cargo-nextest \"$@\"";