diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 83f3c3ea..598a3625 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 gevent>=1.1.0; python_version < "3.8"
-https://github.com/gevent/gevent/archive/master.zip; python_version >= "3.8"
+gevent>=1.5.0a2; python_version >= "3.8"
 msgpack>=0.4.4
 base58
 merkletools