diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 7c063e3f..3a542131 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-gevent>=1.1.0
+gevent>=1.1.0; python_version < "3.8"
+https://github.com/gevent/gevent/archive/master.zip; python_version >= "3.8"
 msgpack>=0.4.4
 base58
 merkletools