diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 41b6cab..62200b9 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@
     "ipld-in-memory": "^3.0.0",
     "it-buffer-stream": "^1.0.0",
     "it-last": "^1.0.0",
-    "multihashes": "^0.4.14",
     "nyc": "^15.0.0",
     "sinon": "^8.0.4"
   },
diff --git a/src/dag-builder/file/index.js b/src/dag-builder/file/index.js
index 0f32c33..f44c5e5 100644
--- a/src/dag-builder/file/index.js
+++ b/src/dag-builder/file/index.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ const {
 } = require('ipld-dag-pb')
 const all = require('it-all')
 const parallelBatch = require('it-parallel-batch')
+const mc = require('multicodec')
 
 const dagBuilders = {
   flat: require('./flat'),
@@ -52,6 +53,23 @@ const reduce = (file, ipld, options) => {
     if (leaves.length === 1 && leaves[0].single && options.reduceSingleLeafToSelf) {
       const leaf = leaves[0]
 
+      if (leaf.cid.codec === 'raw') {
+        // only one leaf node which is a buffer
+        const buffer = await ipld.get(leaf.cid)
+
+        leaf.unixfs = new UnixFS({
+          type: 'file',
+          mtime: file.mtime,
+          mode: file.mode,
+          data: buffer
+        })
+
+        const node = new DAGNode(leaf.unixfs.marshal())
+
+        leaf.cid = await ipld.put(node, mc.DAG_PB, options)
+        leaf.size = node.size
+      }
+
       return {
         cid: leaf.cid,
         path: file.path,
diff --git a/src/utils/persist.js b/src/utils/persist.js
index 69e5af7..e6970b6 100644
--- a/src/utils/persist.js
+++ b/src/utils/persist.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 'use strict'
 
-const mh = require('multihashes')
+const mh = require('multihashing-async').multihash
 const mc = require('multicodec')
 
 const persist = (node, ipld, options) => {
diff --git a/test/builder.spec.js b/test/builder.spec.js
index bbeb9d0..c9d5522 100644
--- a/test/builder.spec.js
+++ b/test/builder.spec.js
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 const chai = require('chai')
 chai.use(require('dirty-chai'))
 const expect = chai.expect
-const mh = require('multihashes')
+const mh = require('multihashing-async').multihash
 const IPLD = require('ipld')
 const inMemory = require('ipld-in-memory')
 const UnixFS = require('ipfs-unixfs')
diff --git a/test/chunker-custom.spec.js b/test/chunker-custom.spec.js
index 2dd00f0..8bc80dd 100644
--- a/test/chunker-custom.spec.js
+++ b/test/chunker-custom.spec.js
@@ -69,5 +69,5 @@ describe('custom chunker', function () {
       cid: await inmem.put(Buffer.from('hello world'), mc.RAW)
     }
   }
-  it('works with single part', fromPartsTest(single, 11))
+  it('works with single part', fromPartsTest(single, 19))
 })
diff --git a/test/importer.spec.js b/test/importer.spec.js
index cf6784e..0f5b658 100644
--- a/test/importer.spec.js
+++ b/test/importer.spec.js
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ strategies.forEach((strategy) => {
       type: 'directory'
     },
     '200Bytes.txt with raw leaves': extend({}, baseFiles['200Bytes.txt'], {
-      cid: 'zb2rhXrz1gkCv8p4nUDZRohY6MzBE9C3HVTVDP72g6Du3SD9Q',
+      cid: 'QmQmZQxSKQppbsWfVzBvg59Cn3DKtsNVQ94bjAxg2h3Lb8',
       size: 200
     })
   }, strategyOverrides[strategy])