diff --git a/abci/Cargo.toml b/abci/Cargo.toml
index 6fe9805d5..cb6a70b16 100644
--- a/abci/Cargo.toml
+++ b/abci/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ path = "src/application/kvstore/main.rs"
 required-features = [ "binary", "kvstore-app" ]
 
 [features]
-default = ["std"]
+default = ["std", "eyre_tracer"]
+eyre_tracer = ["flex-error/eyre_tracer"]
 client = []
 echo-app = []
 kvstore-app = []
@@ -32,7 +33,6 @@ std = [
 
 [dependencies]
 bytes = "1.0"
-eyre = "0.6"
 prost = "0.7"
 tendermint-proto = { version = "0.21.0", path = "../proto" }
 tracing = "0.1"
diff --git a/light-client/Cargo.toml b/light-client/Cargo.toml
index 5a3caff44..6c5c6b551 100644
--- a/light-client/Cargo.toml
+++ b/light-client/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ all-features = true
 rustdoc-args = ["--cfg", "docsrs"]
 
 [features]
-default = ["std", "rpc-client", "lightstore-sled"]
+default = ["std", "eyre_tracer", "rpc-client", "lightstore-sled"]
+eyre_tracer = ["flex-error/eyre_tracer"]
 rpc-client = ["tokio", "tendermint-rpc/http-client"]
 secp256k1 = ["tendermint/secp256k1", "tendermint-rpc/secp256k1"]
 lightstore-sled = ["sled"]
diff --git a/p2p/Cargo.toml b/p2p/Cargo.toml
index 2cef954e1..09dea5d5d 100644
--- a/p2p/Cargo.toml
+++ b/p2p/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ description = """
 test = false
 
 [features]
-default = ["std"]
+default = ["std", "eyre_tracer"]
+eyre_tracer = ["flex-error/eyre_tracer"]
 amino = ["prost-amino", "prost-amino-derive"]
 std = [
     "flex-error/std"
diff --git a/proto/Cargo.toml b/proto/Cargo.toml
index 1311d94e2..b41f165de 100644
--- a/proto/Cargo.toml
+++ b/proto/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ flex-error = { version = "0.4.1", default-features = false }
 serde_json = "1.0"
 
 [features]
-default = ["std"]
+default = ["std", "eyre_tracer"]
+eyre_tracer = ["flex-error/eyre_tracer"]
 std = [
     "flex-error/std"
 ]
diff --git a/rpc/Cargo.toml b/rpc/Cargo.toml
index a11a21d6a..6fbc00e45 100644
--- a/rpc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rpc/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ path = "src/client/bin/main.rs"
 required-features = [ "cli" ]
 
 [features]
-default = ["std"]
+default = ["std", "eyre_tracer"]
+eyre_tracer = ["flex-error/eyre_tracer"]
 cli = [
   "http-client",
   "structopt",
diff --git a/tendermint/Cargo.toml b/tendermint/Cargo.toml
index 3d9f8281b..bbb4b5991 100644
--- a/tendermint/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tendermint/Cargo.toml
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ k256 = { version = "0.9", optional = true, features = ["ecdsa"] }
 ripemd160 = { version = "0.9", optional = true }
 
 [features]
-default = ["std"]
+default = ["std", "eyre_tracer"]
+eyre_tracer = ["flex-error/eyre_tracer"]
 secp256k1 = ["k256", "ripemd160"]
 std = [
     "flex-error/std"