diff --git a/rustchain-miner/Cargo.toml b/rustchain-miner/Cargo.toml
index cf678d36..a8e62409 100644
--- a/rustchain-miner/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rustchain-miner/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ clap = { version = "4.4", features = ["derive", "env"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.35", features = ["full"] }
 
 # HTTP/HTTPS (reqwest with rustls TLS)
-reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = ["json", "rustls-tls"], default-features = false }
+reqwest = { version = "0.13", features = ["json", "rustls-tls"], default-features = false }
 
 # Error handling
 thiserror = "1.0"