diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index dc612eb409..51a55f62bd 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5670,6 +5670,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "bitflags",
  "bytes",
  "criterion",
+ "hashbrown",
  "prometheus",
  "rand 0.8.3",
  "tokio",
diff --git a/network/protocol/Cargo.toml b/network/protocol/Cargo.toml
index 5b06792fc9..4043ac488f 100644
--- a/network/protocol/Cargo.toml
+++ b/network/protocol/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ rand = { version = "0.8" }
 # async traits
 async-trait = "0.1.42"
 bytes = "^1"
+hashbrown = { version = ">=0.9, <0.12" }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 async-channel = "1.5.1"
diff --git a/network/protocol/src/quic.rs b/network/protocol/src/quic.rs
index a4dfa328d1..cd76c0b3ef 100644
--- a/network/protocol/src/quic.rs
+++ b/network/protocol/src/quic.rs
@@ -12,10 +12,8 @@ use crate::{
 };
 use async_trait::async_trait;
 use bytes::BytesMut;
-use std::{
-    collections::HashMap,
-    time::{Duration, Instant},
-};
+use hashbrown::HashMap;
+use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
 use tracing::info;
 #[cfg(feature = "trace_pedantic")]
 use tracing::trace;
diff --git a/network/protocol/src/tcp.rs b/network/protocol/src/tcp.rs
index e6c74df4d4..0909336a58 100644
--- a/network/protocol/src/tcp.rs
+++ b/network/protocol/src/tcp.rs
@@ -11,10 +11,8 @@ use crate::{
 };
 use async_trait::async_trait;
 use bytes::BytesMut;
-use std::{
-    collections::HashMap,
-    time::{Duration, Instant},
-};
+use hashbrown::HashMap;
+use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
 use tracing::info;
 #[cfg(feature = "trace_pedantic")]
 use tracing::trace;