diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 10f7152b..fca9b22c 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ async-native-tls = { package = "web3-async-native-tls", version = "0.4", optiona
 async-std = { version = "1.6", optional = true }
 tokio = { version = "1.0", optional = true, features = ["full"] }
 tokio-stream = { version = "0.1", optional = true }
-tokio-util = { version = "0.6", optional = true, features = ["compat", "io"] }
+tokio-util = { version = "0.7", optional = true, features = ["compat", "io"] }
 soketto = { version = "0.5.0", optional = true }
 ## Shared (WS, HTTP)
 url = { version = "2.1", optional = true }