diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 2ede39707ce..19719f33046 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3576,9 +3576,9 @@ checksum = "cda74da7e1a664f795bb1f8a87ec406fb89a02522cf6e50620d016add6dbbf5c"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.24.2"
+version = "1.25.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "597a12a59981d9e3c38d216785b0c37399f6e415e8d0712047620f189371b0bb"
+checksum = "c8e00990ebabbe4c14c08aca901caed183ecd5c09562a12c824bb53d3c3fd3af"
 dependencies = [
  "autocfg",
  "bytes",
diff --git a/cli/Cargo.toml b/cli/Cargo.toml
index e2fcea8633a..83d9240b469 100644
--- a/cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ syn = "1.0.80"
 # communicate with the substrate nodes
 jsonrpsee = { version = "0.16.0", features = ["async-client", "client-ws-transport", "http-client"] }
 # async runtime
-tokio = { version = "1.8", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "time"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.25", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "time"] }
diff --git a/codegen/Cargo.toml b/codegen/Cargo.toml
index 685430d5215..2cb5165bb10 100644
--- a/codegen/Cargo.toml
+++ b/codegen/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ scale-info = "2.0.0"
 subxt-metadata = { version = "0.26.0", path = "../metadata" }
 jsonrpsee = { version = "0.16.0", features = ["async-client", "client-ws-transport", "http-client"] }
 hex = "0.4.3"
-tokio = { version = "1.8", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.25", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 bitvec = { version = "1.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] }
diff --git a/examples/Cargo.toml b/examples/Cargo.toml
index a4e2d82540e..2ddc746a9d4 100644
--- a/examples/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ description = "Subxt example usage"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 subxt = { path = "../subxt" }
-tokio = { version = "1.8", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "time"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.25", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "time"] }
 sp-keyring = "12.0.0"
 futures = "0.3.13"
 codec = { package = "parity-scale-codec", version = "3.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["derive", "full", "bit-vec"] }
diff --git a/subxt/Cargo.toml b/subxt/Cargo.toml
index 5c9321cad5c..b8e9d18c23a 100644
--- a/subxt/Cargo.toml
+++ b/subxt/Cargo.toml
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ getrandom = { version = "0.2", features = ["js"] }
 bitvec = "1"
 codec = { package = "parity-scale-codec", version = "3.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["derive", "full", "bit-vec"] }
 scale-info = { version = "2.0.0", features = ["bit-vec"] }
-tokio = { version = "1.8", features = ["macros", "time", "rt-multi-thread"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.25", features = ["macros", "time", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 sp-core = { version = "11.0.0", default-features = false }
 sp-runtime = { version = "12.0.0" }
 sp-keyring = "12.0.0"
diff --git a/testing/integration-tests/Cargo.toml b/testing/integration-tests/Cargo.toml
index 78762700aa5..2d642b2a2e3 100644
--- a/testing/integration-tests/Cargo.toml
+++ b/testing/integration-tests/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ syn = "1.0.0"
 subxt = { version = "0.26.0", path = "../../subxt" }
 subxt-codegen = { version = "0.26.0", path = "../../codegen" }
 test-runtime = { path = "../test-runtime" }
-tokio = { version = "1.8", features = ["macros", "time"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.25", features = ["macros", "time"] }
 tracing = "0.1.34"
 tracing-subscriber = "0.3.11"
 wabt = "0.10.0"
diff --git a/testing/test-runtime/Cargo.toml b/testing/test-runtime/Cargo.toml
index dc03300a9f4..28bc9ea16fa 100644
--- a/testing/test-runtime/Cargo.toml
+++ b/testing/test-runtime/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ codec = { package = "parity-scale-codec", version = "3.0.0", default-features =
 
 [build-dependencies]
 subxt = { path = "../../subxt" }
-tokio = { version = "1.8", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.25", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 which = "4.4.0"
 jsonrpsee = { version = "0.16.0", features = ["async-client", "client-ws-transport"] }