diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index d0b2ee0e4..3662e17cf 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@ language: rust
 cache:
   directories:
     - /home/travis/.cargo
-# Going to try caching the registry
-#before_cache:
-#  - rm -rf /home/travis/.cargo/registry
 before_install:
   - curl -OL https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v3.4.0/protoc-3.4.0-linux-x86_64.zip
   - unzip protoc-3.4.0-linux-x86_64.zip -d protoc3
@@ -12,37 +9,14 @@ before_install:
   - sudo mv protoc3/include/* /usr/local/include/
   - sudo chown $USER /usr/local/bin/protoc
   - sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/include/google
-env:
-  - BUILD=--all
-# Not building --release on travis any more, only GitLab
-#  - BUILD=--release --all
-  - BUILD= --manifest-path eth2/state_processing/Cargo.toml --release --features fake_crypto
 script:
-  - cargo build --verbose $BUILD
-  - cargo test --verbose $BUILD
-  - cargo fmt --all -- --check
-  # No clippy until later...
-  #- cargo clippy
+  - cargo build --verbose --all --release
 rust:
-  - stable
   - beta
   - nightly
 matrix:
   allow_failures:
     - rust: nightly
   fast_finish: true
-  exclude:
-# Not building --release on travis any more, only GitLab
-#      - rust: beta
-#        env: BUILD=--release --all
-      - rust: beta
-        env: BUILD= --manifest-path eth2/state_processing/Cargo.toml --release --features fake_crypto
-# Not building --release on travis any more, only GitLab
-#      - rust: nightly
-#        env: BUILD=--release --all
-      - rust: nightly
-        env: BUILD= --manifest-path eth2/state_processing/Cargo.toml --release --features fake_crypto
 install:
   - rustup component add rustfmt
-# No clippy for now
-#  - rustup component add clippy
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index eb472c346..893189941 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ members = [
 	"eth2/fork_choice",
 	"eth2/operation_pool",
 	"eth2/state_processing",
-	"eth2/state_processing/yaml_utils",
 	"eth2/types",
 	"eth2/utils/bls",
 	"eth2/utils/boolean-bitfield",
diff --git a/eth2/state_processing/Cargo.toml b/eth2/state_processing/Cargo.toml
index a2ae11aa8..4b031022a 100644
--- a/eth2/state_processing/Cargo.toml
+++ b/eth2/state_processing/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ env_logger = "0.6.0"
 serde = "1.0"
 serde_derive = "1.0"
 serde_yaml = "0.8"
-yaml-utils = { path = "yaml_utils" }
 
 [dependencies]
 bls = { path = "../utils/bls" }
@@ -30,6 +29,3 @@ tree_hash = { path = "../utils/tree_hash" }
 tree_hash_derive = { path = "../utils/tree_hash_derive" }
 types = { path = "../types" }
 rayon = "1.0"
-
-[features]
-fake_crypto = ["bls/fake_crypto"]
diff --git a/eth2/state_processing/build.rs b/eth2/state_processing/build.rs
deleted file mode 120000
index 70d6c75b9..000000000
--- a/eth2/state_processing/build.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../utils/bls/build.rs
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/eth2/state_processing/yaml_utils/Cargo.toml b/eth2/state_processing/yaml_utils/Cargo.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5f216fe1a..000000000
--- a/eth2/state_processing/yaml_utils/Cargo.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-[package]
-name = "yaml-utils"
-version = "0.1.0"
-authors = ["Kirk Baird <baird.k@outlook.com>"]
-edition = "2018"
-
-[build-dependencies]
-reqwest = "0.9"
-
-[dependencies]
-
-[lib]
-name = "yaml_utils"
-path = "src/lib.rs"
diff --git a/eth2/state_processing/yaml_utils/build.rs b/eth2/state_processing/yaml_utils/build.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index 7fb652cc1..000000000
--- a/eth2/state_processing/yaml_utils/build.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-extern crate reqwest;
-
-use std::fs::File;
-use std::io::copy;
-
-fn main() {
-    // These test files are not to be stored in the lighthouse repo as they are quite large (32MB).
-    // They will be downloaded at build time by yaml-utils crate (in build.rs)
-    let git_path = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ethereum/eth2.0-tests/master/state/";
-    let test_names = vec![
-        "sanity-check_default-config_100-vals.yaml",
-        "sanity-check_small-config_32-vals.yaml",
-    ];
-
-    for test in test_names {
-        let mut target = String::from(git_path);
-        target.push_str(test);
-        let mut response = reqwest::get(target.as_str()).unwrap();
-
-        let mut dest = {
-            let mut file_name = String::from("specs/");
-            file_name.push_str(test);
-            File::create(file_name).unwrap()
-        };
-        copy(&mut response, &mut dest).unwrap();
-    }
-}
diff --git a/eth2/state_processing/yaml_utils/expected_state_fields.py b/eth2/state_processing/yaml_utils/expected_state_fields.py
deleted file mode 100755
index df4cb83f7..000000000
--- a/eth2/state_processing/yaml_utils/expected_state_fields.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-
-# Script to extract all the fields of the state mentioned in `expected_state` fields of tests
-# in the `spec` directory. These fields can then be added to the `ExpectedState` struct.
-# Might take a while to run.
-
-import os, yaml
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    yaml_files = (filename for filename in os.listdir("specs") if filename.endswith(".yaml"))
-    parsed_yaml = (yaml.load(open("specs/" + filename, "r")) for filename in yaml_files)
-    all_fields = set()
-    for y in parsed_yaml:
-        all_fields.update(*({key for key in case["expected_state"]} for case in y["test_cases"]))
-    print(all_fields)
diff --git a/eth2/state_processing/yaml_utils/specs/.gitignore b/eth2/state_processing/yaml_utils/specs/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e82fc7de..000000000
--- a/eth2/state_processing/yaml_utils/specs/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-*.yaml
diff --git a/eth2/state_processing/yaml_utils/src/lib.rs b/eth2/state_processing/yaml_utils/src/lib.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index 644ea434b..000000000
--- a/eth2/state_processing/yaml_utils/src/lib.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-// This is a place holder such that yaml-utils is now a crate hence build.rs will be run when 'cargo test' is called