diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 4803542..80a816e 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,16 +1,32 @@
-FROM python:3.11.1
-WORKDIR /app
+FROM python:3.10 as base
+ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/opt/venv
+ENV PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH"
 
-RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y  cron \
-    --no-install-recommends && \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
-    pip install poetry==1.3.2 --no-cache-dir 
+RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install gcc -y && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+RUN python3 -m venv $VIRTUAL_ENV
+RUN pip install -U poetry pip setuptools
 
-ENV POETRY_VIRTUALENVS_IN_PROJECT=true
-COPY pyproject.toml ./
-RUN poetry install --only main
-ENV PATH="/APP/.venv/bin:$PATH"
+WORKDIR /workdir
+COPY pyproject.toml /workdir
+COPY poetry.lock /workdir 
+RUN chown -R $(whoami):$(whoami) /workdir
 
+RUN poetry install  --no-interaction
+RUN poetry run apt-get update && apt-get install make git -y
+
+# Customize base image with agent deps
+FROM python:3.10-slim-bullseye
+ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/opt/venv
+ENV PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH"
+
+COPY --from=base $VIRTUAL_ENV $VIRTUAL_ENV
+RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install gcc make -y && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/opt/venv
+# now we copy deps to be removed in later stages removed later
+WORKDIR /workdir
+COPY . .
+ENV PYTHONPATH=.
+ENTRYPOINT ["/opt/venv/bin/poetry"]
+CMD ["run", "pytest", "tests"]
 
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 96ddb5a..59ee317 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,4 +5,12 @@ This is a Python client for the 100x API. It is a simple wrapper around the API,
 ## Installation
 ```bash
 pip install hundred-x
+``
+
+## Running a dockerised environment
+```bash
+docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64 . -t test
+# now we have the dependencies installed,
+# we can mount the current directory and run the tests against the dockerised environment
+docker run -v (pwd):/app -it test
 ```
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index c7007ca..5ab2061 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1534,6 +1534,7 @@ colorama = {version = ">=0.4.5", markers = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
 dill = [
     {version = ">=0.2", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""},
     {version = ">=0.3.6", markers = "python_version >= \"3.11\""},
+    {version = ">=0.3.7", markers = "python_version >= \"3.12\""},
 ]
 isort = ">=4.2.5,<5.13.0 || >5.13.0,<6"
 mccabe = ">=0.6,<0.8"
@@ -1793,6 +1794,17 @@ files = [
     {file = "rpds_py-0.18.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:42821446ee7a76f5d9f71f9e33a4fb2ffd724bb3e7f93386150b61a43115788d"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "safe-pysha3"
+version = "1.0.4"
+description = "SHA-3 (Keccak) for Python 3.9 - 3.11"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+files = [
+    {file = "safe-pysha3-1.0.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:e429146b1edd198b2ca934a2046a65656c5d31b0ec894bbd6055127f4deaff17"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "schema"
 version = "0.7.5"
@@ -2138,5 +2150,5 @@ multidict = ">=4.0"
 
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
-python-versions = ">=3.9,<=3.11"
-content-hash = "a4485cbec0888c5f1078655ccedbd51d852024e252c37c5a4fcfcc88d5d75186"
+python-versions = ">=3.9,<=3.12"
+content-hash = "c6097a7800c21655984c1b1bd2e323e17faa90c8a361514e338fd56438dcfcb4"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e1370c9..6bfcb49 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -7,12 +7,13 @@ readme = "README.md"
 packages = [{include = "hundred_x"}]
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = ">=3.9,<=3.11"
+python = ">=3.9,<=3.12"
 requests = "^2.31.0"
 eth-account = "<=0.11.0"
 eip712-structs = "^1.1.0"
 web3 = ">=5,<6"
 websockets = ">=9"
+safe-pysha3 = "^1.0.4"
 
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]