diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e4aeb5d..03fc1aa 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -8485,6 +8485,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.48.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "io-uring"
+version = "0.7.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b86e202f00093dcba4275d4636b93ef9dd75d025ae560d2521b45ea28ab49013"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 2.9.0",
+ "cfg-if",
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ipconfig"
 version = "0.3.2"
@@ -18564,17 +18575,19 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.44.1"
+version = "1.46.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f382da615b842244d4b8738c82ed1275e6c5dd90c459a30941cd07080b06c91a"
+checksum = "1140bb80481756a8cbe10541f37433b459c5aa1e727b4c020fbfebdc25bf3ec4"
 dependencies = [
  "backtrace",
  "bytes",
+ "io-uring",
  "libc",
  "mio",
  "parking_lot",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "signal-hook-registry",
+ "slab",
  "socket2",
  "tokio-macros",
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index cab4745..a27f0ee 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ keywords = ["tangle", "blueprint", "avs"]
 pico-coprocessor-service-blueprint-lib = { path = "pico-coprocessor-service-lib" }
 
 blueprint-sdk = { git = "https://github.com/tangle-network/blueprint.git", default-features = false }
-tokio = { version = "1.43.0", default-features = false }
+tokio = { version = "1.46.0", default-features = false }
 color-eyre = "0.6.3"
 tower = { version = "0.5.2", default-features = false }
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.19", features = ["env-filter"] }