diff --git a/app/scripts/controllers/blacklist.js b/app/scripts/controllers/blacklist.js
index 5a5ec1c31..6ee89259c 100644
--- a/app/scripts/controllers/blacklist.js
+++ b/app/scripts/controllers/blacklist.js
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 const ObservableStore = require('obs-store')
 const extend = require('xtend')
 const PhishingDetector = require('eth-phishing-detect/src/detector')
-const log = require('loglevel')
 
 // compute phishing lists
 const PHISHING_DETECTION_CONFIG = require('eth-phishing-detect/src/config.json')
diff --git a/app/scripts/controllers/currency.js b/app/scripts/controllers/currency.js
index 619c515fa..6cb39d39a 100644
--- a/app/scripts/controllers/currency.js
+++ b/app/scripts/controllers/currency.js
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 const ObservableStore = require('obs-store')
 const extend = require('xtend')
-const log = require('loglevel')
 
 // every ten minutes
 const POLLING_INTERVAL = 600000
@@ -118,7 +117,7 @@ class CurrencyController {
       try {
         rawResponse = await response.text()
         parsedResponse = JSON.parse(rawResponse)
-      } catch () {
+      } catch (err) {
         throw new Error(`CurrencyController - Failed to parse response "${rawResponse}"`)
       }
       this.setConversionRate(Number(parsedResponse.bid))