diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 7bb155cf1..6a9bd5fce 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2885,9 +2885,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "libp2p-identity"
-version = "0.2.5"
+version = "0.2.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "57bf6e730ec5e7022958da53ffb03b326e681b7316939012ae9b3c7449a812d4"
+checksum = "31e6cc3b46b1183c2de7c452efbc64813389036be632aaae71de2f15f1994fad"
 dependencies = [
  "asn1_der",
  "bs58",
diff --git a/core/Cargo.toml b/core/Cargo.toml
index 33755d094..960614f0a 100644
--- a/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ chrono = "0.4.31"
 exocore-protos = {version = "0.1.25", path = "../protos"}
 futures = { version = "0.3.28", features = ["async-await"] }
 libp2p = { version = "0.52.3", features = ["noise", "secp256k1"], default-features = false }
-libp2p-identity = { version = "0.2.5", features = ["secp256k1", "ed25519"], default-features = false }
+libp2p-identity = { version = "0.2.6", features = ["secp256k1", "ed25519"], default-features = false }
 log = "0.4.20"
 log4rs = { version = "1.2.0", optional = true }
 multihash = "0.19.1"
diff --git a/transport/Cargo.toml b/transport/Cargo.toml
index 82f815d07..6606979ed 100644
--- a/transport/Cargo.toml
+++ b/transport/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ futures = "0.3.28"
 gloo-timers = {version = "0.3", optional = true}
 hyper = {version = "0.14.27", features = ["full"], optional = true}
 libp2p = {version = "0.52.3", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["noise", "websocket", "yamux", "ping", "identify", "macros", "tokio", "dns"]}
-libp2p-identity = { version = "0.2.5", features = ["secp256k1", "ed25519"], default-features = false }
+libp2p-identity = { version = "0.2.6", features = ["secp256k1", "ed25519"], default-features = false }
 libp2p-mplex = {version = "0.40.0", optional = true}
 log = "0.4.20"
 pin-project = "1.1.3"