diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e59dfab5..ea78d5ff 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -11478,6 +11478,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "wait-timeout",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ruzstd"
+version = "0.8.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e5ff0cc5e135c8870a775d3320910cd9b564ec036b4dc0b8741629020be63f01"
+dependencies = [
+ "twox-hash",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ryu"
 version = "1.0.20"
@@ -11676,6 +11685,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "bitvec",
  "derive_more",
  "eyre",
+ "ruzstd",
  "scroll-alloy-consensus",
  "scroll-l1",
  "serde_json",
@@ -13571,6 +13581,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "utf-8",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "twox-hash"
+version = "2.1.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9ea3136b675547379c4bd395ca6b938e5ad3c3d20fad76e7fe85f9e0d011419c"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "typenum"
 version = "1.19.0"
diff --git a/crates/codec/Cargo.toml b/crates/codec/Cargo.toml
index 581f8f64..120ddd5b 100644
--- a/crates/codec/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/codec/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,11 +19,14 @@ bitvec.workspace = true
 derive_more = { version = "2.0", default-features = false }
 eyre = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 thiserror = { version = "2.0", default-features = false }
-zstd = "=0.13.3"
+zstd = { version = "=0.13.3", optional = true }
+ruzstd = "0.8"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 eyre.workspace = true
 serde_json = "1.0"
 
 [features]
+default = ["zstd"]
 test-utils = ["dep:eyre", "scroll-l1/test-utils"]
+zstd = ["dep:zstd"]
diff --git a/crates/codec/src/decoding/v2/zstd.rs b/crates/codec/src/decoding/v2/zstd.rs
index e5969031..4b580ead 100644
--- a/crates/codec/src/decoding/v2/zstd.rs
+++ b/crates/codec/src/decoding/v2/zstd.rs
@@ -2,14 +2,18 @@
 
 use std::io::Read;
 
-use zstd::Decoder;
+#[cfg(feature = "zstd")]
+use ruzstd as _;
 
 /// The ZSTD magic number for zstd compressed data header.
 const ZSTD_MAGIC_NUMBER: [u8; 4] = [0x28, 0xb5, 0x2f, 0xfd];
 
 /// Uncompress the provided data.
+#[cfg(feature = "zstd")]
 pub fn decompress_blob_data(data: &[u8]) -> Vec<u8> {
+    use zstd::Decoder;
     let mut header_data = ZSTD_MAGIC_NUMBER.to_vec();
+
     header_data.extend_from_slice(data);
 
     // init decoder and owned output data.
@@ -31,3 +35,20 @@ pub fn decompress_blob_data(data: &[u8]) -> Vec<u8> {
 
     output
 }
+
+/// Uncompress the provided data.
+#[cfg(not(feature = "zstd"))]
+pub fn decompress_blob_data(data: &[u8]) -> Vec<u8> {
+    use ruzstd::decoding::StreamingDecoder;
+
+    let mut header_data = ZSTD_MAGIC_NUMBER.to_vec();
+    header_data.extend_from_slice(data);
+
+    // init decoder and owned output data.
+    let mut decoder = StreamingDecoder::new(header_data.as_slice()).unwrap();
+    // heuristic: use data length as the allocated output capacity.
+    let mut output = Vec::with_capacity(header_data.len());
+    decoder.read_to_end(&mut output).unwrap();
+
+    output
+}