diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml b/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
index 3efe495e..e7d9e903 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ env:
 jobs:
   test-without-integration:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container: quarkchaindocker/pyquarkchain:mainnet1.1.1
+    container: quarkchaindocker/pyquarkchain:test-py3.13
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
 
   evm-tests-runner-1:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container: quarkchaindocker/pyquarkchain:mainnet1.1.1
+    container: quarkchaindocker/pyquarkchain:test-py3.13
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
 
   evm-tests-runner-2:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container: quarkchaindocker/pyquarkchain:mainnet1.1.1
+    container: quarkchaindocker/pyquarkchain:test-py3.13
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ jobs:
 
   test-integration-and-qkc-specific-state:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container: quarkchaindocker/pyquarkchain:mainnet1.1.1
+    container: quarkchaindocker/pyquarkchain:test-py3.13
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
diff --git a/.github/workflows/nightly-check-db.yml b/.github/workflows/nightly-check-db.yml
index 4975b3dc..e07e1c90 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/nightly-check-db.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly-check-db.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ env:
 jobs:
   download-snapshot-and-checkdb:
     runs-on: self-hosted
-    container: quarkchaindocker/pyquarkchain:mainnet1.6.1
+    container: quarkchaindocker/pyquarkchain:test-py3.13
     timeout-minutes: 4320
 
     steps:
diff --git a/mainnet/singularity/Dockerfile b/mainnet/singularity/Dockerfile
index 6bd30191..265ceb24 100644
--- a/mainnet/singularity/Dockerfile
+++ b/mainnet/singularity/Dockerfile
@@ -1,7 +1,19 @@
-FROM python:3.7-buster
+FROM python:3.13-slim
 LABEL maintainer="quarkchain"
-RUN sed -i 's/deb.debian.org/archive.debian.org/' /etc/apt/sources.list
+# install rocksdb
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get install -y \
+    build-essential \
+    gcc \
+    g++ \
+    make \
+    git \
+    libbz2-dev \
+    libgflags-dev \
+    liblz4-dev \
+    librocksdb-dev \
+    libsnappy-dev \
+    libzstd-dev \
+    zlib1g-dev \
     vim \
   && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 # set up code
@@ -17,6 +29,7 @@ RUN git checkout $GIT_TAG
 
 # py dep
 RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
+RUN python setup.py build_ext --inplace
 
 # add qkchash c++ lib
 ADD https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/pyqkcmainnet/libqkchash.so /code/pyquarkchain/qkchash/
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e3ae6cfa..83cd2d29 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,34 +1,31 @@
-aiohttp==3.1.3
-aioprocessing==1.0.1
-async_armor==0.0.2
-coincurve==7.1.0
-decorator==4.2.1
-ecdsa==0.13.3
-jsonrpcclient==2.5.2
-jsonrpcserver==3.5.4
-jsonrpc-async==0.6
-numpy==1.15.1
-psutil==5.6.6
-rocksdict==0.3.29
-requests==2.20.0
-aiohttp_cors==0.7.0
-eth-utils==1.2.0
-eth-keys==0.2.0b3
-eth-bloom==1.0.0
-pyethash>=0.1.27,<1.0.0
-py_ecc==1.4.3
-eth-hash[pycryptodome]==0.1.4
-pytest-timeout==1.3.3
-cachetools==3.1.1
-websockets==8.0.2
+aiohttp>=3.9
+aiohttp_cors>=0.7.0
+aioprocessing>=2.0
+cachetools>=5
+coincurve>=19.0.1
+decorator>=5
+ecdsa>=0.18
+eth-hash[pycryptodome]>=0.5,<0.6
+eth-utils>=2.3
+eth-keys>=0.5
+eth-bloom>=2.0
+httpx>=0.28
+Cython>=3
+setuptools>=80.8.0
+numpy>=1.26
+psutil>=6
+rocksdict>=0.3.24
+requests>=2.28.0
+py_ecc>=7
+pytest-timeout>=2.0.1
+websockets>=12
 
 # p2p
-pytest>=3.6,<3.7
-pytest-asyncio==0.9.0
-cryptography==2.3.1
-upnpclient==0.0.8
-netifaces==0.10.7
-rlp>=1.0.0,<2.0.0
+async-upnp-client>=0.38
+pytest>=8
+pytest-asyncio>=0.23
+cryptography>=42
+rlp>=3
 
 # pyethapp/accounts.py dependency
-pbkdf2
+pbkdf2>=1.3
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 314502a2..f084e0c2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -44,6 +44,6 @@ def read(fname):
     long_description=read("README.md"),
     classifiers=["Development Status :: 0 - Development", "License :: MIT License"],
     install_requires=install_requires,
-    python_requires=">=3.5",
+    python_requires=">=3.13",
     cmdclass={"develop": custom_develop},
 )