diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index f64e64c..71d0505 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ go 1.17
 
 require (
 	github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec/v2 v2.1.3
-	github.com/coreos/go-semver v0.3.0
 	github.com/gogo/protobuf v1.3.1
 	github.com/ipfs/go-cid v0.2.0
 	github.com/ipfs/go-log/v2 v2.5.1
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index b799050..578b185 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec/v2 v2.1.3/go.mod h1:ctjw4H1kknNJmRN4iP1R7bTQ+v3GJ
 github.com/btcsuite/btcd/chaincfg/chainhash v1.0.0/go.mod h1:7SFka0XMvUgj3hfZtydOrQY2mwhPclbT2snogU7SQQc=
 github.com/btcsuite/btcd/chaincfg/chainhash v1.0.1 h1:q0rUy8C/TYNBQS1+CGKw68tLOFYSNEs0TFnxxnS9+4U=
 github.com/btcsuite/btcd/chaincfg/chainhash v1.0.1/go.mod h1:7SFka0XMvUgj3hfZtydOrQY2mwhPclbT2snogU7SQQc=
-github.com/coreos/go-semver v0.3.0 h1:wkHLiw0WNATZnSG7epLsujiMCgPAc9xhjJ4tgnAxmfM=
-github.com/coreos/go-semver v0.3.0/go.mod h1:nnelYz7RCh+5ahJtPPxZlU+153eP4D4r3EedlOD2RNk=
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.0/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 h1:vj9j/u1bqnvCEfJOwUhtlOARqs3+rkHYY13jYWTU97c=
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
diff --git a/helpers/match.go b/helpers/match.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 2e24667..0000000
--- a/helpers/match.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-package helpers
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-
-	"github.com/coreos/go-semver/semver"
-	"github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-core/protocol"
-)
-
-// MultistreamSemverMatcher returns a matcher function for a given base protocol.
-// The matcher function will return a boolean indicating whether a protocol ID
-// matches the base protocol. A given protocol ID matches the base protocol if
-// the IDs are the same and if the semantic version of the base protocol is the
-// same or higher than that of the protocol ID provided.
-// TODO
-func MultistreamSemverMatcher(base protocol.ID) (func(string) bool, error) {
-	parts := strings.Split(string(base), "/")
-	vers, err := semver.NewVersion(parts[len(parts)-1])
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	return func(check string) bool {
-		chparts := strings.Split(check, "/")
-		if len(chparts) != len(parts) {
-			return false
-		}
-
-		for i, v := range chparts[:len(chparts)-1] {
-			if parts[i] != v {
-				return false
-			}
-		}
-
-		chvers, err := semver.NewVersion(chparts[len(chparts)-1])
-		if err != nil {
-			return false
-		}
-
-		return vers.Major == chvers.Major && vers.Minor >= chvers.Minor
-	}, nil
-}
diff --git a/helpers/match_test.go b/helpers/match_test.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a6e4b6..0000000
--- a/helpers/match_test.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-package helpers
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-)
-
-func TestSemverMatching(t *testing.T) {
-	m, err := MultistreamSemverMatcher("/testing/4.3.5")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	cases := map[string]bool{
-		"/testing/4.3.0":   true,
-		"/testing/4.3.7":   true,
-		"/testing/4.3.5":   true,
-		"/testing/4.2.7":   true,
-		"/testing/4.0.0":   true,
-		"/testing/5.0.0":   false,
-		"/cars/dogs/4.3.5": false,
-		"/foo/1.0.0":       false,
-		"":                 false,
-		"dogs":             false,
-		"/foo":             false,
-		"/foo/1.1.1.1":     false,
-	}
-
-	for p, ok := range cases {
-		if m(p) != ok {
-			t.Fatalf("expected %s to be %t", p, ok)
-		}
-	}
-}