diff --git a/.cargo/config.toml b/.cargo/config.toml
index 2586c8988..9af43e9ac 100644
--- a/.cargo/config.toml
+++ b/.cargo/config.toml
@@ -1,2 +1,8 @@
 [env]
 LIBSQLITE3_FLAGS = "-DSQLITE_ENABLE_MATH_FUNCTIONS" # necessary for rusqlite dependency in order to bundle SQLite with math functions included
+
+[build]
+# turso-sync package uses tokio_unstable to seed LocalRuntime and make it deterministic
+# unfortunately, cargo commands invoked from workspace root didn't capture config.toml from dependent crate
+# so, we set this cfg globally for workspace (see relevant issue build build-target: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/7004)
+rustflags = ["--cfg=tokio_unstable"]
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diff --git a/packages/turso-sync/.cargo/config.toml b/packages/turso-sync/.cargo/config.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index 16f1e73ac..000000000
--- a/packages/turso-sync/.cargo/config.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[build]
-rustflags = ["--cfg", "tokio_unstable"]
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