diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 401a5af5..5a262930 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ sentry-asgi==0.2.0
 sentry-sdk==0.12.2  # https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-python
 SQLAlchemy==1.3.19  # needed for pandas to parse legacy data from database
 twisted==20.3.0
-txaio==18.8.1
+txaio==20.4.1
 typing-extensions==3.7.4
 vine==1.3.0
 websocket-client==0.56.0 # need this for now to profile and find speedups