diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b7d1053..e1df715 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ docs = [
 requires = [
     "setuptools>=61.2",
     "setuptools_scm[toml]>=3.4",
-    "numpy>=1.25",
+    "numpy>=2.0.0rc2",
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"