diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c6698a953..01f5ae20f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -732,9 +732,9 @@ checksum = "1fd0f2584146f6f2ef48085050886acf353beff7305ebd1ae69500e27c67f64b"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bytes"
-version = "1.5.0"
+version = "1.6.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a2bd12c1caf447e69cd4528f47f94d203fd2582878ecb9e9465484c4148a8223"
+checksum = "514de17de45fdb8dc022b1a7975556c53c86f9f0aa5f534b98977b171857c2c9"
 dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
diff --git a/zilliqa/Cargo.toml b/zilliqa/Cargo.toml
index b71497cfe..e84e2cb45 100644
--- a/zilliqa/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zilliqa/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ bitvec = { version = "1.0.1", features = ["serde"] }
 bls-signatures = "0.15.0"
 bls12_381 = "0.8.0"
 bs58 = "0.5.1"
-bytes = "1.5.0"
+bytes = "1.6.0"
 clap = { version = "4.5.3", features = ["derive"] }
 crypto-bigint = "=0.5.5"
 eth_trie = {path =  "../eth-trie.rs"}