diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5275eb0..51f9112 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -183,9 +183,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "brotli",
  "flate2",
  "futures-core",
+ "futures-io",
  "memchr",
  "pin-project-lite",
- "tokio",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1711,8 +1711,10 @@ version = "0.1.2"
 dependencies = [
  "async-compression",
  "blake3",
+ "blocking",
  "bstr",
  "digest",
+ "futures-lite",
  "hmac",
  "lune-utils",
  "lz4",
@@ -1724,7 +1726,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "sha1 0.10.6",
  "sha2",
  "sha3",
- "tokio",
  "toml",
 ]
 
diff --git a/crates/lune-std-serde/Cargo.toml b/crates/lune-std-serde/Cargo.toml
index d0cde53..9e290d4 100644
--- a/crates/lune-std-serde/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/lune-std-serde/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,13 +16,16 @@ workspace = true
 mlua = { version = "0.10.3", features = ["luau", "serialize"] }
 
 async-compression = { version = "0.4", features = [
-    "tokio",
+    "futures-io",
     "brotli",
     "deflate",
     "gzip",
     "zlib",
 ] }
+
+blocking = "1.6"
 bstr = "1.9"
+futures-lite = "2.6"
 lz4 = "1.26"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = { version = "1.0", features = ["preserve_order"] }
@@ -39,9 +42,4 @@ sha3 = "0.10.8"
 # Check before updating it.
 blake3 = { version = "=1.5.0", features = ["traits-preview"] }
 
-tokio = { version = "1", default-features = false, features = [
-    "rt",
-    "io-util",
-] }
-
 lune-utils = { version = "0.1.3", path = "../lune-utils" }
diff --git a/crates/lune-std-serde/src/compress_decompress.rs b/crates/lune-std-serde/src/compress_decompress.rs
index 9d80178..6941fd6 100644
--- a/crates/lune-std-serde/src/compress_decompress.rs
+++ b/crates/lune-std-serde/src/compress_decompress.rs
@@ -2,14 +2,12 @@ use std::io::{copy as copy_std, Cursor, Read as _, Write as _};
 
 use mlua::prelude::*;
 
+use blocking::unblock;
+use futures_lite::io::{copy, BufReader};
 use lz4::{Decoder, EncoderBuilder};
-use tokio::{
-    io::{copy, BufReader},
-    task::spawn_blocking,
-};
 
 use async_compression::{
-    tokio::bufread::{
+    futures::bufread::{
         BrotliDecoder, BrotliEncoder, GzipDecoder, GzipEncoder, ZlibDecoder, ZlibEncoder,
     },
     Level::Best as CompressionQuality,
@@ -124,10 +122,7 @@ pub async fn compress(
 ) -> LuaResult<Vec<u8>> {
     if let CompressDecompressFormat::LZ4 = format {
         let source = source.as_ref().to_vec();
-        return spawn_blocking(move || compress_lz4(source))
-            .await
-            .into_lua_err()?
-            .into_lua_err();
+        return unblock(move || compress_lz4(source)).await.into_lua_err();
     }
 
     let mut bytes = Vec::new();
@@ -169,10 +164,7 @@ pub async fn decompress(
 ) -> LuaResult<Vec<u8>> {
     if let CompressDecompressFormat::LZ4 = format {
         let source = source.as_ref().to_vec();
-        return spawn_blocking(move || decompress_lz4(source))
-            .await
-            .into_lua_err()?
-            .into_lua_err();
+        return unblock(move || decompress_lz4(source)).await.into_lua_err();
     }
 
     let mut bytes = Vec::new();