diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 15ce8931..6842ddea 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -215,6 +215,6 @@
 [submodule "vendor/nim-leveldbstatic"]
 	path = vendor/nim-leveldbstatic
 	url = https://github.com/codex-storage/nim-leveldb.git
-[submodule "vendor/zip"]
-	path = vendor/zip
-	url = https://github.com/nim-lang/zip.git
\ No newline at end of file
+[submodule "vendor/nim-zippy"]
+	path = vendor/nim-zippy
+	url = https://github.com/status-im/nim-zippy.git
diff --git a/tools/cirdl/cirdl.nim b/tools/cirdl/cirdl.nim
index 9f33f574..93485411 100644
--- a/tools/cirdl/cirdl.nim
+++ b/tools/cirdl/cirdl.nim
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import pkg/chronos
 import pkg/ethers
 import pkg/questionable
 import pkg/questionable/results
-import pkg/zip/zipfiles
+# import pkg/zippy/ziparchives
 import pkg/chronos/apps/http/httpclient
 import ../../codex/contracts/marketplace
 
@@ -60,11 +60,10 @@ proc downloadZipfile(url: string, filepath: string): Future[?!void] {.async.} =
   success()
 
 proc unzip(zipfile:string, targetPath: string): ?!void =
-  var z: ZipArchive
-  if not z.open(zipfile):
-    return failure("Unable to open zip file: " & zipfile)
-  z.extractAll(targetPath)
-  z.close()
+  # try:
+  #   extractAll(zipfile, targetPath)
+  # except Exception as exc:
+  #   return failure(exc.msg)
   success()
 
 proc main() {.async.} =
diff --git a/vendor/nim-zippy b/vendor/nim-zippy
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..8d6828f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/nim-zippy
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 8d6828f090325c5c015f66a438d31aa592a7045d
diff --git a/vendor/zip b/vendor/zip
deleted file mode 160000
index 06f5b0a0..00000000
--- a/vendor/zip
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 06f5b0a0767b14c7595ed168611782be69e61543