diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index bafdd29fffd..84fc509462f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ jobs:
                      1.30.0,
                      # 1.34.2 is Debian stable
                      1.34.2,
-                     # 1.39.0 is MSRV for lightning-net-tokio and generates coverage
-                     1.39.0]
+                     # 1.45.2 is MSRV for lightning-net-tokio and generates coverage
+                     1.45.2]
         include:
           - toolchain: stable
             build-net-tokio: true
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
             build-net-tokio: true
           - toolchain: beta
             build-net-tokio: true
-          - toolchain: 1.39.0
+          - toolchain: 1.45.2
             build-net-tokio: true
             coverage: true
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }}
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Generate coverage report
         if: matrix.coverage
         run: |
-          for file in target/debug/lightning-*; do
+          for file in target/debug/deps/lightning*; do
             [ -x "${file}" ] || continue;
             mkdir -p "target/cov/$(basename $file)";
             ./kcov-build/usr/local/bin/kcov --exclude-pattern=/.cargo,/usr/lib --verify "target/cov/$(basename $file)" "$file";
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ jobs:
   linting:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     env:
-      TOOLCHAIN: 1.39.0
+      TOOLCHAIN: 1.45.2
     steps:
       - name: Checkout source code
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
diff --git a/lightning-net-tokio/Cargo.toml b/lightning-net-tokio/Cargo.toml
index 50634bd32df..9165388066d 100644
--- a/lightning-net-tokio/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lightning-net-tokio/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ For Rust-Lightning clients which wish to make direct connections to Lightning P2
 [dependencies]
 bitcoin = "0.24"
 lightning = { version = "0.0.12", path = "../lightning" }
-tokio = { version = ">=0.2.12", features = [ "io-util", "macros", "rt-core", "sync", "tcp", "time" ] }
+tokio = { version = "1.0", features = [ "io-util", "macros", "rt", "sync", "net", "time" ] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-tokio = { version = ">=0.2.12", features = [ "io-util", "macros", "rt-core", "rt-threaded", "sync", "tcp", "time" ] }
+tokio = { version = "1.0", features = [ "io-util", "macros", "rt", "rt-multi-thread", "sync", "net", "time" ] }
diff --git a/lightning-net-tokio/src/lib.rs b/lightning-net-tokio/src/lib.rs
index 8e5885ca9bf..80f7e055283 100644
--- a/lightning-net-tokio/src/lib.rs
+++ b/lightning-net-tokio/src/lib.rs
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 //! The call site should, thus, look something like this:
 //! ```
 //! use tokio::sync::mpsc;
-//! use tokio::net::TcpStream;
+//! use std::net::TcpStream;
 //! use bitcoin::secp256k1::key::PublicKey;
 //! use lightning::util::events::EventsProvider;
 //! use std::net::SocketAddr;
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ use lightning::util::logger::Logger;
 
 use std::{task, thread};
 use std::net::SocketAddr;
+use std::net::TcpStream as StdTcpStream;
 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex, MutexGuard};
 use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, Ordering};
 use std::time::Duration;
@@ -156,7 +157,7 @@ impl Connection {
 			// In this case, we do need to call peer_manager.socket_disconnected() to inform
 			// Rust-Lightning that the socket is gone.
 			PeerDisconnected
-		};
+		}
 		let disconnect_type = loop {
 			macro_rules! shutdown_socket {
 				($err: expr, $need_disconnect: expr) => { {
@@ -218,7 +219,7 @@ impl Connection {
 		}
 	}
 
-	fn new(event_notify: mpsc::Sender<()>, stream: TcpStream) -> (io::ReadHalf<TcpStream>, mpsc::Receiver<()>, mpsc::Receiver<()>, Arc<Mutex<Self>>) {
+	fn new(event_notify: mpsc::Sender<()>, stream: StdTcpStream) -> (io::ReadHalf<TcpStream>, mpsc::Receiver<()>, mpsc::Receiver<()>, Arc<Mutex<Self>>) {
 		// We only ever need a channel of depth 1 here: if we returned a non-full write to the
 		// PeerManager, we will eventually get notified that there is room in the socket to write
 		// new bytes, which will generate an event. That event will be popped off the queue before
@@ -229,7 +230,8 @@ impl Connection {
 		// we shove a value into the channel which comes after we've reset the read_paused bool to
 		// false.
 		let (read_waker, read_receiver) = mpsc::channel(1);
-		let (reader, writer) = io::split(stream);
+		stream.set_nonblocking(true).unwrap();
+		let (reader, writer) = io::split(TcpStream::from_std(stream).unwrap());
 
 		(reader, write_receiver, read_receiver,
 		Arc::new(Mutex::new(Self {
@@ -248,7 +250,7 @@ impl Connection {
 /// not need to poll the provided future in order to make progress.
 ///
 /// See the module-level documentation for how to handle the event_notify mpsc::Sender.
-pub fn setup_inbound<CMH, RMH, L>(peer_manager: Arc<peer_handler::PeerManager<SocketDescriptor, Arc<CMH>, Arc<RMH>, Arc<L>>>, event_notify: mpsc::Sender<()>, stream: TcpStream) -> impl std::future::Future<Output=()> where
+pub fn setup_inbound<CMH, RMH, L>(peer_manager: Arc<peer_handler::PeerManager<SocketDescriptor, Arc<CMH>, Arc<RMH>, Arc<L>>>, event_notify: mpsc::Sender<()>, stream: StdTcpStream) -> impl std::future::Future<Output=()> where
 		CMH: ChannelMessageHandler + 'static,
 		RMH: RoutingMessageHandler + 'static,
 		L: Logger + 'static + ?Sized {
@@ -290,7 +292,7 @@ pub fn setup_inbound<CMH, RMH, L>(peer_manager: Arc<peer_handler::PeerManager<So
 /// not need to poll the provided future in order to make progress.
 ///
 /// See the module-level documentation for how to handle the event_notify mpsc::Sender.
-pub fn setup_outbound<CMH, RMH, L>(peer_manager: Arc<peer_handler::PeerManager<SocketDescriptor, Arc<CMH>, Arc<RMH>, Arc<L>>>, event_notify: mpsc::Sender<()>, their_node_id: PublicKey, stream: TcpStream) -> impl std::future::Future<Output=()> where
+pub fn setup_outbound<CMH, RMH, L>(peer_manager: Arc<peer_handler::PeerManager<SocketDescriptor, Arc<CMH>, Arc<RMH>, Arc<L>>>, event_notify: mpsc::Sender<()>, their_node_id: PublicKey, stream: StdTcpStream) -> impl std::future::Future<Output=()> where
 		CMH: ChannelMessageHandler + 'static,
 		RMH: RoutingMessageHandler + 'static,
 		L: Logger + 'static + ?Sized {
@@ -366,7 +368,7 @@ pub async fn connect_outbound<CMH, RMH, L>(peer_manager: Arc<peer_handler::PeerM
 		CMH: ChannelMessageHandler + 'static,
 		RMH: RoutingMessageHandler + 'static,
 		L: Logger + 'static + ?Sized {
-	if let Ok(Ok(stream)) = time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(10), TcpStream::connect(&addr)).await {
+	if let Ok(Ok(stream)) = time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(10), async { TcpStream::connect(&addr).await.map(|s| s.into_std().unwrap()) }).await {
 		Some(setup_outbound(peer_manager, event_notify, their_node_id, stream))
 	} else { None }
 }
@@ -388,7 +390,7 @@ fn wake_socket_waker(orig_ptr: *const ()) {
 }
 fn wake_socket_waker_by_ref(orig_ptr: *const ()) {
 	let sender_ptr = orig_ptr as *const mpsc::Sender<()>;
-	let mut sender = unsafe { (*sender_ptr).clone() };
+	let sender = unsafe { (*sender_ptr).clone() };
 	let _ = sender.try_send(());
 }
 fn drop_socket_waker(orig_ptr: *const ()) {
@@ -512,6 +514,7 @@ mod tests {
 	use tokio::sync::mpsc;
 
 	use std::mem;
+	use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
 	use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
 	use std::time::Duration;
 
@@ -526,6 +529,7 @@ mod tests {
 		expected_pubkey: PublicKey,
 		pubkey_connected: mpsc::Sender<()>,
 		pubkey_disconnected: mpsc::Sender<()>,
+		disconnected_flag: AtomicBool,
 		msg_events: Mutex<Vec<MessageSendEvent>>,
 	}
 	impl RoutingMessageHandler for MsgHandler {
@@ -559,6 +563,7 @@ mod tests {
 		fn handle_announcement_signatures(&self, _their_node_id: &PublicKey, _msg: &AnnouncementSignatures) {}
 		fn peer_disconnected(&self, their_node_id: &PublicKey, _no_connection_possible: bool) {
 			if *their_node_id == self.expected_pubkey {
+				self.disconnected_flag.store(true, Ordering::SeqCst);
 				self.pubkey_disconnected.clone().try_send(()).unwrap();
 			}
 		}
@@ -591,6 +596,7 @@ mod tests {
 			expected_pubkey: b_pub,
 			pubkey_connected: a_connected_sender,
 			pubkey_disconnected: a_disconnected_sender,
+			disconnected_flag: AtomicBool::new(false),
 			msg_events: Mutex::new(Vec::new()),
 		});
 		let a_manager = Arc::new(PeerManager::new(MessageHandler {
@@ -604,6 +610,7 @@ mod tests {
 			expected_pubkey: a_pub,
 			pubkey_connected: b_connected_sender,
 			pubkey_disconnected: b_disconnected_sender,
+			disconnected_flag: AtomicBool::new(false),
 			msg_events: Mutex::new(Vec::new()),
 		});
 		let b_manager = Arc::new(PeerManager::new(MessageHandler {
@@ -624,8 +631,8 @@ mod tests {
 		} else { panic!("Failed to bind to v4 localhost on common ports"); };
 
 		let (sender, _receiver) = mpsc::channel(2);
-		let fut_a = super::setup_outbound(Arc::clone(&a_manager), sender.clone(), b_pub, tokio::net::TcpStream::from_std(conn_a).unwrap());
-		let fut_b = super::setup_inbound(b_manager, sender, tokio::net::TcpStream::from_std(conn_b).unwrap());
+		let fut_a = super::setup_outbound(Arc::clone(&a_manager), sender.clone(), b_pub, conn_a);
+		let fut_b = super::setup_inbound(b_manager, sender, conn_b);
 
 		tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(10), a_connected.recv()).await.unwrap();
 		tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(1), b_connected.recv()).await.unwrap();
@@ -633,18 +640,20 @@ mod tests {
 		a_handler.msg_events.lock().unwrap().push(MessageSendEvent::HandleError {
 			node_id: b_pub, action: ErrorAction::DisconnectPeer { msg: None }
 		});
-		assert!(a_disconnected.try_recv().is_err());
-		assert!(b_disconnected.try_recv().is_err());
+		assert!(!a_handler.disconnected_flag.load(Ordering::SeqCst));
+		assert!(!b_handler.disconnected_flag.load(Ordering::SeqCst));
 
 		a_manager.process_events();
 		tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(10), a_disconnected.recv()).await.unwrap();
 		tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_secs(1), b_disconnected.recv()).await.unwrap();
+		assert!(a_handler.disconnected_flag.load(Ordering::SeqCst));
+		assert!(b_handler.disconnected_flag.load(Ordering::SeqCst));
 
 		fut_a.await;
 		fut_b.await;
 	}
 
-	#[tokio::test(threaded_scheduler)]
+	#[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread")]
 	async fn basic_threaded_connection_test() {
 		do_basic_connection_test().await;
 	}