diff --git a/ethcontract/Cargo.toml b/ethcontract/Cargo.toml
index 8f5eba84..fb7f5203 100644
--- a/ethcontract/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ethcontract/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ hex = "0.4"
 jsonrpc-core = "18.0"
 lazy_static = "1.4"
 primitive-types = { version = "0.10", features = ["fp-conversion"] }
-secp256k1 = { version = "0.21", features = ["recovery"] }
+secp256k1 = { version = "0.26", features = ["recovery"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
 thiserror = "1.0"