diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6e9325408..37e5a777b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5484,9 +5484,9 @@ checksum = "1f3ccbac311fea05f86f61904b462b55fb3df8837a366dfc601a0161d0532f20"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.28.1"
+version = "1.28.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0aa32867d44e6f2ce3385e89dceb990188b8bb0fb25b0cf576647a6f98ac5105"
+checksum = "94d7b1cfd2aa4011f2de74c2c4c63665e27a71006b0a192dcd2710272e73dfa2"
 dependencies = [
  "autocfg",
  "bytes",
diff --git a/rust/noosphere-ns/Cargo.toml b/rust/noosphere-ns/Cargo.toml
index 6f101ccfd..08c872ae4 100644
--- a/rust/noosphere-ns/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/noosphere-ns/Cargo.toml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ futures = "^0.3.26"
 async-trait = "~0.1"
 ucan = { workspace = true }
 ucan-key-support = { workspace = true }
-tokio = { version = "1.15", features = ["io-util", "io-std", "sync", "macros", "rt", "rt-multi-thread"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.28", features = ["io-util", "io-std", "sync", "macros", "rt", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 noosphere-storage = { version = "0.7.0", path = "../noosphere-storage" }
 noosphere-core = { version = "0.12.2", path = "../noosphere-core" }
 libp2p = { version = "0.51.3", default-features = false, features = [ "ed25519", "identify", "dns", "kad", "macros", "noise", "serde", "tcp", "tokio", "yamux" ] }