diff --git a/utils/binary-merkle-tree/Cargo.toml b/utils/binary-merkle-tree/Cargo.toml
index 926f49fbb7ca5..a59d27fb09bb9 100644
--- a/utils/binary-merkle-tree/Cargo.toml
+++ b/utils/binary-merkle-tree/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,4 +22,7 @@ sp-runtime = { version = "7.0.0", path = "../../primitives/runtime" }
 [features]
 debug = ["array-bytes", "log"]
 default = ["debug", "std"]
-std = []
+std = [
+    "log/std",
+    "hash-db/std"
+]
diff --git a/utils/binary-merkle-tree/src/lib.rs b/utils/binary-merkle-tree/src/lib.rs
index 15db4a4e12e43..42f4e8a5bbf26 100644
--- a/utils/binary-merkle-tree/src/lib.rs
+++ b/utils/binary-merkle-tree/src/lib.rs
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ fn merkelize_row<H, V, I>(
 ) -> Result<H::Out, Vec<H::Out>>
 where
 	H: Hasher,
-	H::Out: AsRef<[u8]> + PartialOrd + PartialOrd,
+	H::Out: AsRef<[u8]> + PartialOrd,
 	V: Visitor<H::Out>,
 	I: Iterator<Item = H::Out>,
 {