diff --git a/api/tasks.py b/api/tasks.py
index 5715c9812..824bd9e69 100644
--- a/api/tasks.py
+++ b/api/tasks.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import asyncio
 from celery import shared_task
 from celery.exceptions import SoftTimeLimitExceeded
 
@@ -260,7 +261,7 @@ def nostr_send_order_event(order_id=None):
         order = Order.objects.get(id=order_id)
 
         nostr = Nostr()
-        nostr.send_order_event(order)
+        asyncio.run(nostr.send_order_event(order))
 
     return
 
diff --git a/docker-tests.yml b/docker-tests.yml
index 06dbd9398..07010344b 100644
--- a/docker-tests.yml
+++ b/docker-tests.yml
@@ -206,16 +206,6 @@ services:
   #     - redis
   #   network_mode: service:bitcoind
 
-  strfry:
-    build: ./docker/strfry
-    container_name: strfry-dev
-    restart: unless-stopped
-    volumes:
-      - ./test/strfry/strfry.conf:/etc/strfry.conf:ro
-      - ./test/strfry/onion_urls.txt:/etc/strfry/onion_urls.txt:ro
-      - ./test/strfry/db:/app/strfry-db:rw
-    network_mode: service:tor
-
 volumes:
   redisdata:
   bitcoin:
diff --git a/tests/strfry/config/strfry.conf b/tests/strfry/config/strfry.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index fea0d885e..000000000
--- a/tests/strfry/config/strfry.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,138 +0,0 @@
-##
-## Default strfry config
-##
-
-# Directory that contains the strfry LMDB database (restart required)
-db = "./strfry-db/"
-
-dbParams {
-    # Maximum number of threads/processes that can simultaneously have LMDB transactions open (restart required)
-    maxreaders = 256
-
-    # Size of mmap() to use when loading LMDB (default is 10TB, does *not* correspond to disk-space used) (restart required)
-    mapsize = 10995116277760
-
-    # Disables read-ahead when accessing the LMDB mapping. Reduces IO activity when DB size is larger than RAM. (restart required)
-    noReadAhead = false
-}
-
-events {
-    # Maximum size of normalised JSON, in bytes
-    maxEventSize = 65536
-
-    # Events newer than this will be rejected
-    rejectEventsNewerThanSeconds = 900
-
-    # Events older than this will be rejected
-    rejectEventsOlderThanSeconds = 94608000
-
-    # Ephemeral events older than this will be rejected
-    rejectEphemeralEventsOlderThanSeconds = 60
-
-    # Ephemeral events will be deleted from the DB when older than this
-    ephemeralEventsLifetimeSeconds = 300
-
-    # Maximum number of tags allowed
-    maxNumTags = 2000
-
-    # Maximum size for tag values, in bytes
-    maxTagValSize = 1024
-}
-
-relay {
-    # Interface to listen on. Use 0.0.0.0 to listen on all interfaces (restart required)
-    bind = "0.0.0.0"
-
-    # Port to open for the nostr websocket protocol (restart required)
-    port = 7777
-
-    # Set OS-limit on maximum number of open files/sockets (if 0, don't attempt to set) (restart required)
-    nofiles = 1000000
-
-    # HTTP header that contains the client's real IP, before reverse proxying (ie x-real-ip) (MUST be all lower-case)
-    realIpHeader = ""
-
-    info {
-        # NIP-11: Name of this server. Short/descriptive (< 30 characters)
-        name = "Robosats"
-
-        # NIP-11: Detailed information about relay, free-form
-        description = "Federation cache system."
-
-        # NIP-11: Administrative nostr pubkey, for contact purposes
-        pubkey = ""
-
-        # NIP-11: Alternative administrative contact (email, website, etc)
-        contact = ""
-    }
-
-    # Maximum accepted incoming websocket frame size (should be larger than max event) (restart required)
-    maxWebsocketPayloadSize = 131072
-
-    # Websocket-level PING message frequency (should be less than any reverse proxy idle timeouts) (restart required)
-    autoPingSeconds = 55
-
-    # If TCP keep-alive should be enabled (detect dropped connections to upstream reverse proxy)
-    enableTcpKeepalive = false
-
-    # How much uninterrupted CPU time a REQ query should get during its DB scan
-    queryTimesliceBudgetMicroseconds = 10000
-
-    # Maximum records that can be returned per filter
-    maxFilterLimit = 500
-
-    # Maximum number of subscriptions (concurrent REQs) a connection can have open at any time
-    maxSubsPerConnection = 3
-
-    writePolicy {
-        # If non-empty, path to an executable script that implements the writePolicy plugin logic
-        plugin = ""
-    }
-
-    compression {
-        # Use permessage-deflate compression if supported by client. Reduces bandwidth, but slight increase in CPU (restart required)
-        enabled = true
-
-        # Maintain a sliding window buffer for each connection. Improves compression, but uses more memory (restart required)
-        slidingWindow = false
-    }
-
-    logging {
-        # Dump all incoming messages
-        dumpInAll = false
-
-        # Dump all incoming EVENT messages
-        dumpInEvents = false
-
-        # Dump all incoming REQ/CLOSE messages
-        dumpInReqs = false
-
-        # Log performance metrics for initial REQ database scans
-        dbScanPerf = false
-
-        # Log reason for invalid event rejection? Can be disabled to silence excessive logging
-        invalidEvents = true
-    }
-
-    numThreads {
-        # Ingester threads: route incoming requests, validate events/sigs (restart required)
-        ingester = 3
-
-        # reqWorker threads: Handle initial DB scan for events (restart required)
-        reqWorker = 3
-
-        # reqMonitor threads: Handle filtering of new events (restart required)
-        reqMonitor = 3
-
-        # negentropy threads: Handle negentropy protocol messages (restart required)
-        negentropy = 2
-    }
-
-    negentropy {
-        # Support negentropy protocol messages
-        enabled = true
-
-        # Maximum records that sync will process before returning an error
-        maxSyncEvents = 1000000
-    }
-}