diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 88b31c865..6b710afb5 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
     "browser-process-platform": "~0.1.1",
     "cross-env": "^6.0.0",
     "go-ipfs-dep": "^0.4.22",
-    "interface-ipfs-core": "^0.117.0",
+    "interface-ipfs-core": "^0.117.2",
     "ipfsd-ctl": "^0.47.1",
     "nock": "^11.3.2",
     "stream-equal": "^1.1.1"
diff --git a/src/block/index.js b/src/block/index.js
index f346aa454..645f47df6 100644
--- a/src/block/index.js
+++ b/src/block/index.js
@@ -1,13 +1,24 @@
 'use strict'
 
+const nodeify = require('promise-nodeify')
 const moduleConfig = require('../utils/module-config')
+const { collectify } = require('../lib/converters')
 
-module.exports = (arg) => {
+module.exports = (arg, config) => {
   const send = moduleConfig(arg)
+  const rm = require('./rm-async-iterator')(config)
 
   return {
     get: require('./get')(send),
     stat: require('./stat')(send),
-    put: require('./put')(send)
+    put: require('./put')(send),
+    rm: (input, options, callback) => {
+      if (typeof options === 'function') {
+        callback = options
+        options = {}
+      }
+      return nodeify(collectify(rm)(input, options), callback)
+    },
+    _rmAsyncIterator: rm
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/block/rm-async-iterator.js b/src/block/rm-async-iterator.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b934df32b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/block/rm-async-iterator.js
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+'use strict'
+
+const CID = require('cids')
+const ndjson = require('iterable-ndjson')
+const configure = require('../lib/configure')
+const toIterable = require('../lib/stream-to-iterable')
+const toCamel = require('../lib/object-to-camel')
+
+module.exports = configure(({ ky }) => {
+  return async function * removeBlock (cid, options) {
+    options = options || {}
+
+    if (!Array.isArray(cid)) {
+      cid = [cid]
+    }
+
+    const searchParams = new URLSearchParams()
+    searchParams.set('stream-channels', true)
+    searchParams.set('force', options.force || false)
+    searchParams.set('quiet', options.quiet || false)
+
+    cid.forEach(cid => {
+      searchParams.append('arg', new CID(cid).toString())
+    })
+
+    const res = await ky.post('block/rm', {
+      timeout: options.timeout,
+      signal: options.signal,
+      headers: options.headers,
+      searchParams
+    })
+
+    for await (const removed of ndjson(toIterable(res.body))) {
+      yield toCamel(removed)
+    }
+  }
+})