diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index d2dab3373005648237faddd94e76faa510e81844..e875b674ed8dd3a3c9fea6165e3034965c2fb27e 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/ipfs/go-cid v0.0.2
 	github.com/jbenet/goprocess v0.1.3
 	github.com/libp2p/go-flow-metrics v0.0.1
+	github.com/libp2p/go-msgio v0.0.4
 	github.com/minio/sha256-simd v0.1.0
 	github.com/mr-tron/base58 v1.1.2
 	github.com/multiformats/go-multiaddr v0.0.4
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 50ba2f96076531ed05cc13de4c366d12220dda01..1a08908e19c4d5b67a79a1f8c8fd373c7cc1e6af 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -62,8 +62,12 @@ github.com/kr/pretty v0.1.0/go.mod h1:dAy3ld7l9f0ibDNOQOHHMYYIIbhfbHSm3C4ZsoJORN
 github.com/kr/pty v1.1.1/go.mod h1:pFQYn66WHrOpPYNljwOMqo10TkYh1fy3cYio2l3bCsQ=
 github.com/kr/text v0.1.0 h1:45sCR5RtlFHMR4UwH9sdQ5TC8v0qDQCHnXt+kaKSTVE=
 github.com/kr/text v0.1.0/go.mod h1:4Jbv+DJW3UT/LiOwJeYQe1efqtUx/iVham/4vfdArNI=
+github.com/libp2p/go-buffer-pool v0.0.1 h1:9Rrn/H46cXjaA2HQ5Y8lyhOS1NhTkZ4yuEs2r3Eechg=
+github.com/libp2p/go-buffer-pool v0.0.1/go.mod h1:xtyIz9PMobb13WaxR6Zo1Pd1zXJKYg0a8KiIvDp3TzQ=
 github.com/libp2p/go-flow-metrics v0.0.1 h1:0gxuFd2GuK7IIP5pKljLwps6TvcuYgvG7Atqi3INF5s=
 github.com/libp2p/go-flow-metrics v0.0.1/go.mod h1:Iv1GH0sG8DtYN3SVJ2eG221wMiNpZxBdp967ls1g+k8=
+github.com/libp2p/go-msgio v0.0.4 h1:agEFehY3zWJFUHK6SEMR7UYmk2z6kC3oeCM7ybLhguA=
+github.com/libp2p/go-msgio v0.0.4/go.mod h1:63lBBgOTDKQL6EWazRMCwXsEeEeK9O2Cd+0+6OOuipQ=
 github.com/mailru/easyjson v0.0.0-20180823135443-60711f1a8329 h1:2gxZ0XQIU/5z3Z3bUBu+FXuk2pFbkN6tcwi/pjyaDic=
 github.com/mailru/easyjson v0.0.0-20180823135443-60711f1a8329/go.mod h1:C1wdFJiN94OJF2b5HbByQZoLdCWB1Yqtg26g4irojpc=
 github.com/mattn/go-colorable v0.0.9 h1:UVL0vNpWh04HeJXV0KLcaT7r06gOH2l4OW6ddYRUIY4=