diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index eacacf1..851387f 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ source 'https://rubygems.org'
 # Specify your gem's dependencies in convertkit-ruby.gemspec
 gemspec
 
+gem 'base64'
 gem 'dotenv', '~> 2.1', '>= 2.1.1'
-gem 'webmock', '~> 2.1'
+gem 'webmock', '~> 3.0'
 gem 'vcr', '~> 3.0', '>= 3.0.3'
diff --git a/convertkit-ruby.gemspec b/convertkit-ruby.gemspec
index 820c518..ed71124 100644
--- a/convertkit-ruby.gemspec
+++ b/convertkit-ruby.gemspec
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.add_development_dependency "rspec", "~> 3.0"
   spec.add_development_dependency "dotenv", "~> 2.1"
 
-  spec.add_runtime_dependency "faraday", "~> 1.0"
-  spec.add_runtime_dependency "faraday_middleware", "~> 1.0"
+  spec.add_runtime_dependency "faraday", ">= 2.0"
   spec.add_runtime_dependency "json", '>= 1.8.3'
 end
diff --git a/lib/convertkit/connection.rb b/lib/convertkit/connection.rb
index a3fa832..2a5ccb6 100644
--- a/lib/convertkit/connection.rb
+++ b/lib/convertkit/connection.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 require "convertkit/errors"
 require "faraday"
-require "faraday_middleware"
 require "json"
 
 module Convertkit
@@ -36,7 +35,6 @@ def delete(*args, &blk)
     def faraday_connection(api_key, api_secret)
       Faraday.new do |f|
         f.url_prefix = "https://api.convertkit.com/v3/"
-        f.adapter :net_http
 
         f.options.timeout = Convertkit.configuration.timeout
         f.options.open_timeout = Convertkit.configuration.open_timeout
@@ -49,6 +47,8 @@ def faraday_connection(api_key, api_secret)
         f.params['api_key'] = api_key if api_key
 
         f.response :json, content_type: /\bjson$/
+
+        f.adapter :net_http
       end
     end