diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index fc885177..e4706760 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1246,15 +1246,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "zeroize",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "encoding_rs"
-version = "0.8.33"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7268b386296a025e474d5140678f75d6de9493ae55a5d709eeb9dd08149945e1"
-dependencies = [
- "cfg-if",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "enum-as-inner"
 version = "0.6.0"
@@ -1493,7 +1484,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "35bd3cf68c183738046838e300353e4716c674dc5e56890de4826801a6622a28"
 dependencies = [
  "futures-io",
- "rustls",
+ "rustls 0.21.10",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1989,6 +1980,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "itoa",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "tokio",
+ "want",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2006,16 +1998,19 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "hyper-rustls"
-version = "0.24.2"
+version = "0.26.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ec3efd23720e2049821a693cbc7e65ea87c72f1c58ff2f9522ff332b1491e590"
+checksum = "a0bea761b46ae2b24eb4aef630d8d1c398157b6fc29e6350ecf090a0b70c952c"
 dependencies = [
  "futures-util",
- "http 0.2.11",
- "hyper 0.14.28",
- "rustls",
+ "http 1.1.0",
+ "hyper 1.1.0",
+ "hyper-util",
+ "rustls 0.22.3",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-rustls",
+ "tower-service",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2025,6 +2020,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ca38ef113da30126bbff9cd1705f9273e15d45498615d138b0c20279ac7a76aa"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
+ "futures-channel",
  "futures-util",
  "http 1.1.0",
  "http-body 1.0.0",
@@ -2032,6 +2028,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "pin-project-lite",
  "socket2",
  "tokio",
+ "tower",
+ "tower-service",
+ "tracing",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2677,7 +2676,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "quinn",
  "rand",
  "ring 0.16.20",
- "rustls",
+ "rustls 0.21.10",
  "socket2",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
@@ -2748,8 +2747,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "libp2p-identity",
  "rcgen",
  "ring 0.16.20",
- "rustls",
- "rustls-webpki",
+ "rustls 0.21.10",
+ "rustls-webpki 0.101.7",
  "thiserror",
  "x509-parser",
  "yasna",
@@ -3369,7 +3368,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "url",
  "wasm-bindgen",
  "wasm-bindgen-test",
- "wasm-streams",
+ "wasm-streams 0.3.0",
  "web-sys",
 ]
 
@@ -4130,7 +4129,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "quinn-proto",
  "quinn-udp",
  "rustc-hash",
- "rustls",
+ "rustls 0.21.10",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
  "tracing",
@@ -4146,7 +4145,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rand",
  "ring 0.16.20",
  "rustc-hash",
- "rustls",
+ "rustls 0.21.10",
  "slab",
  "thiserror",
  "tinyvec",
@@ -4292,20 +4291,20 @@ checksum = "c08c74e62047bb2de4ff487b251e4a92e24f48745648451635cec7d591162d9f"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "reqwest"
-version = "0.11.20"
+version = "0.12.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3e9ad3fe7488d7e34558a2033d45a0c90b72d97b4f80705666fea71472e2e6a1"
+checksum = "2d66674f2b6fb864665eea7a3c1ac4e3dfacd2fda83cf6f935a612e01b0e3338"
 dependencies = [
  "base64",
  "bytes",
- "encoding_rs",
  "futures-core",
  "futures-util",
- "h2 0.3.24",
- "http 0.2.11",
- "http-body 0.4.6",
- "hyper 0.14.28",
+ "http 1.1.0",
+ "http-body 1.0.0",
+ "http-body-util",
+ "hyper 1.1.0",
  "hyper-rustls",
+ "hyper-util",
  "ipnet",
  "js-sys",
  "log",
@@ -4313,11 +4312,13 @@ dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
  "percent-encoding",
  "pin-project-lite",
- "rustls",
+ "rustls 0.22.3",
  "rustls-pemfile",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "serde_urlencoded",
+ "sync_wrapper",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-rustls",
  "tokio-util",
@@ -4325,7 +4326,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "url",
  "wasm-bindgen",
  "wasm-bindgen-futures",
- "wasm-streams",
+ "wasm-streams 0.4.0",
  "web-sys",
  "webpki-roots",
  "winreg",
@@ -4491,10 +4492,24 @@ checksum = "f9d5a6813c0759e4609cd494e8e725babae6a2ca7b62a5536a13daaec6fcb7ba"
 dependencies = [
  "log",
  "ring 0.17.7",
- "rustls-webpki",
+ "rustls-webpki 0.101.7",
  "sct",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rustls"
+version = "0.22.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "99008d7ad0bbbea527ec27bddbc0e432c5b87d8175178cee68d2eec9c4a1813c"
+dependencies = [
+ "log",
+ "ring 0.17.7",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+ "rustls-webpki 0.102.2",
+ "subtle",
+ "zeroize",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustls-pemfile"
 version = "1.0.4"
@@ -4504,6 +4519,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "base64",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rustls-pki-types"
+version = "1.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "868e20fada228fefaf6b652e00cc73623d54f8171e7352c18bb281571f2d92da"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustls-webpki"
 version = "0.101.7"
@@ -4514,6 +4535,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "untrusted 0.9.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rustls-webpki"
+version = "0.102.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "faaa0a62740bedb9b2ef5afa303da42764c012f743917351dc9a237ea1663610"
+dependencies = [
+ "ring 0.17.7",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+ "untrusted 0.9.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustversion"
 version = "1.0.14"
@@ -4966,9 +4998,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "subtle"
-version = "2.4.1"
+version = "2.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6bdef32e8150c2a081110b42772ffe7d7c9032b606bc226c8260fd97e0976601"
+checksum = "81cdd64d312baedb58e21336b31bc043b77e01cc99033ce76ef539f78e965ebc"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "symlink"
@@ -5189,11 +5221,12 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-rustls"
-version = "0.24.1"
+version = "0.25.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c28327cf380ac148141087fbfb9de9d7bd4e84ab5d2c28fbc911d753de8a7081"
+checksum = "775e0c0f0adb3a2f22a00c4745d728b479985fc15ee7ca6a2608388c5569860f"
 dependencies = [
- "rustls",
+ "rustls 0.22.3",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
  "tokio",
 ]
 
@@ -5778,6 +5811,19 @@ dependencies = [
  "web-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "wasm-streams"
+version = "0.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b65dc4c90b63b118468cf747d8bf3566c1913ef60be765b5730ead9e0a3ba129"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures-util",
+ "js-sys",
+ "wasm-bindgen",
+ "wasm-bindgen-futures",
+ "web-sys",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "web-sys"
 version = "0.3.69"
@@ -5800,9 +5846,12 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "webpki-roots"
-version = "0.25.4"
+version = "0.26.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5f20c57d8d7db6d3b86154206ae5d8fba62dd39573114de97c2cb0578251f8e1"
+checksum = "b3de34ae270483955a94f4b21bdaaeb83d508bb84a01435f393818edb0012009"
+dependencies = [
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "widestring"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e5307076..79e82b06 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ libipld-cbor = { version = "0.16" }
 libipld-json = { version = "0.16" }
 pathdiff = { version = "0.2.1" }
 rand = { version = "0.8" }
-reqwest = { version = "=0.11.20", default-features = false, features = ["json", "rustls-tls", "stream"] }
+reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["json", "rustls-tls", "stream"] }
 sentry-tracing = { version = "0.31.8" }
 serde = { version = "^1" }
 serde_json = { version = "^1" }
diff --git a/rust/noosphere-cli/Cargo.toml b/rust/noosphere-cli/Cargo.toml
index cc59992f..075930a6 100644
--- a/rust/noosphere-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/noosphere-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ observability = ["noosphere-gateway/observability"]
 vergen = { workspace = true }
 
 [target.'cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))'.dev-dependencies]
-reqwest = { version = "~0.11", default-features = false, features = ["json", "rustls-tls", "stream"] }
+reqwest = { workspace = true, default-features = false, features = ["json", "rustls-tls", "stream"] }
 
 [target.'cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))'.dependencies]
 tempfile = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/rust/noosphere-core/src/api/client.rs b/rust/noosphere-core/src/api/client.rs
index 037cee19..045c7aef 100644
--- a/rust/noosphere-core/src/api/client.rs
+++ b/rust/noosphere-core/src/api/client.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-use std::str::FromStr;
-
 use crate::{
-    api::{route::RouteUrl, v0alpha1, v0alpha2, StatusCode},
+    api::{route::RouteUrl, v0alpha1, v0alpha2},
+    authority::{generate_capability, Author, SphereAbility, SphereReference},
+    data::{Link, MemoIpld},
     error::NoosphereError,
     stream::{from_car_stream, memo_history_stream, put_block_stream, to_car_stream},
 };
@@ -9,14 +9,10 @@ use anyhow::{anyhow, Result};
 use async_stream::try_stream;
 use bytes::Bytes;
 use cid::Cid;
+use http::StatusCode;
 use iroh_car::CarReader;
 use libipld_cbor::DagCborCodec;
 use noosphere_common::{ConditionalSend, ConditionalSync, UnsharedStream};
-
-use crate::{
-    authority::{generate_capability, Author, SphereAbility, SphereReference},
-    data::{Link, MemoIpld},
-};
 use noosphere_storage::{block_deserialize, block_serialize, BlockStore};
 use noosphere_ucan::{
     builder::UcanBuilder,
@@ -26,6 +22,7 @@ use noosphere_ucan::{
     ucan::Ucan,
 };
 use reqwest::header::HeaderMap;
+use std::str::FromStr;
 use tokio_stream::{Stream, StreamExt};
 use tokio_util::io::StreamReader;
 use url::Url;
@@ -93,7 +90,7 @@ where
             client.get(url).send().await?
         };
 
-        match translate_status_code(did_response.status())? {
+        match did_response.status() {
             StatusCode::OK => (),
             _ => return Err(anyhow!("Unable to look up gateway identity")),
         };
@@ -475,7 +472,7 @@ where
                 v0alpha2::PushError::BrokenUpstream
             })?;
 
-        let status = translate_status_code(response.status())?;
+        let status = response.status();
         trace!("Checking response ({})...", status);
 
         if status == StatusCode::CONFLICT {
@@ -531,22 +528,3 @@ where
         Ok(push_response)
     }
 }
-
-/// Both `reqwest` and `axum` re-export `StatusCode` from the `http` crate.
-///
-/// We're stuck on reqwest@0.11.20 [1] that uses an older version
-/// of `http::StatusCode`, whereas axum >= 0.7 uses the 1.0 release
-/// of several HTTP libraries (`http`, `http-body`, `hyper`) [2], which
-/// we'd like to use as our canonical representation.
-///
-/// This utility converts between the old `reqwest::StatusCode` to the
-/// >=1.0 implementation. Notably, we do not pull in all of `axum`
-/// into the `noosphere-core` crate, only the common underlying
-/// crate `http@1.0.0` (or greater).
-///
-/// [1] https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/noosphere/issues/686
-/// [2] https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/blob/5b6204168a676497d2f4188af603546d9ebfe20a/axum/CHANGELOG.md#070-27-november-2023
-fn translate_status_code(reqwest_code: reqwest::StatusCode) -> Result<StatusCode> {
-    let code: u16 = reqwest_code.into();
-    Ok(code.try_into()?)
-}
diff --git a/rust/noosphere-core/src/api/mod.rs b/rust/noosphere-core/src/api/mod.rs
index 00d014e0..baeab325 100644
--- a/rust/noosphere-core/src/api/mod.rs
+++ b/rust/noosphere-core/src/api/mod.rs
@@ -11,7 +11,3 @@ pub mod v0alpha2;
 
 pub use client::*;
 pub use data::*;
-
-// Re-export `http::StatusCode` here as our preferred `StatusCode` instance,
-// disambiguating from other crate's implementations.
-pub(crate) use http::StatusCode;
diff --git a/rust/noosphere-core/src/api/v0alpha1/data.rs b/rust/noosphere-core/src/api/v0alpha1/data.rs
index fdf5f6c7..5c4eed95 100644
--- a/rust/noosphere-core/src/api/v0alpha1/data.rs
+++ b/rust/noosphere-core/src/api/v0alpha1/data.rs
@@ -1,15 +1,11 @@
-use std::fmt::Display;
-
-use crate::api::{
-    data::{empty_string_as_none, AsQuery},
-    StatusCode,
-};
 use crate::{
+    api::data::{empty_string_as_none, AsQuery},
     authority::{generate_capability, SphereAbility, SPHERE_SEMANTICS},
     data::{Bundle, Did, Jwt, Link, MemoIpld},
 };
 use anyhow::{anyhow, Result};
 use cid::Cid;
+use http::StatusCode;
 use noosphere_storage::{base64_decode, base64_encode};
 use noosphere_ucan::{
     chain::ProofChain,
@@ -18,6 +14,7 @@ use noosphere_ucan::{
     Ucan,
 };
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+use std::fmt::Display;
 use thiserror::Error;
 
 /// The query parameters expected for the "replicate" API route.
diff --git a/rust/noosphere-core/src/api/v0alpha2/data.rs b/rust/noosphere-core/src/api/v0alpha2/data.rs
index 203d3bbf..b84a529c 100644
--- a/rust/noosphere-core/src/api/v0alpha2/data.rs
+++ b/rust/noosphere-core/src/api/v0alpha2/data.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-use crate::{
-    api::StatusCode,
-    data::{Did, Jwt, Link, MemoIpld},
-};
+use crate::data::{Did, Jwt, Link, MemoIpld};
+use http::StatusCode;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use thiserror::Error;
 
diff --git a/rust/noosphere-ipfs/Cargo.toml b/rust/noosphere-ipfs/Cargo.toml
index c8a65da4..ea7e66b2 100644
--- a/rust/noosphere-ipfs/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/noosphere-ipfs/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ async-stream = { workspace = true }
 libipld-core = { workspace = true }
 libipld-cbor = { workspace = true }
 cid = { workspace = true }
-reqwest = { version = "~0.11", default-features = false, features = ["json", "rustls-tls", "stream"] }
+reqwest = { workspace = true, default-features = false, features = ["json", "rustls-tls", "stream"] }
 serde = { workspace = true }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["io-util"] }
diff --git a/rust/noosphere-ns/Cargo.toml b/rust/noosphere-ns/Cargo.toml
index 25016417..104e414b 100644
--- a/rust/noosphere-ns/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/noosphere-ns/Cargo.toml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ toml = { version = "~0.8", optional = true }
 # noosphere_ns::server
 axum = { workspace = true, features = ["json", "macros"], optional = true }
 axum-tracing-opentelemetry = { workspace = true, optional = true }
-reqwest = { version = "~0.11", default-features = false, features = ["json", "rustls-tls"], optional = true }
+reqwest = { workspace = true, default-features = false, features = ["json", "rustls-tls"], optional = true }
 tower-http = { workspace = true, features = ["trace"], optional = true }
 url = { version = "^2", features = [ "serde" ], optional = true }