diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index 4bf18f6..e3d8c0e 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -3,3 +3,5 @@ codecov
 pytest-cov
 pytest-asyncio
 pylint
+grpcio
+grpcio-tools
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index abaa1c7..c44a276 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ setuptools.setup(
         "base58",
         "pymultihash",
         "multiaddr",
+        "grpcio",
+        "grpcio-tools"
     ],
     packages=["libp2p"],
     zip_safe=False,