diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f0d3ab3..05c9ee0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -243,7 +243,6 @@ else:
             return not has_system_lib()

     setup_kwargs = dict(
-        setup_requires=['cffi>=1.3.0', 'requests'],
         ext_package='coincurve',
         cffi_modules=['_cffi_build/build.py:ffi'],
         cmdclass={