diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4917cee0..77a3ac71 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -154,6 +154,40 @@ dependencies = [
  "url",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "async-nats"
+version = "0.36.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f71e5a1bab60f46b0b005f4808b8ee83ef6d577608923de938403393c9a30cf8"
+dependencies = [
+ "base64 0.22.1",
+ "bytes",
+ "futures",
+ "memchr",
+ "nkeys 0.4.3",
+ "nuid 0.5.0",
+ "once_cell",
+ "portable-atomic",
+ "rand",
+ "regex",
+ "ring",
+ "rustls-native-certs 0.7.1",
+ "rustls-pemfile 2.1.2",
+ "rustls-webpki 0.102.4",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
+ "serde_nanos",
+ "serde_repr",
+ "thiserror",
+ "time",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-rustls 0.26.0",
+ "tokio-util 0.7.11",
+ "tracing",
+ "tryhard",
+ "url",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "async-stream"
 version = "0.3.5"
@@ -2109,6 +2143,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "universal-hash",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "portable-atomic"
+version = "1.7.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "da544ee218f0d287a911e9c99a39a8c9bc8fcad3cb8db5959940044ecfc67265"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "powerfmt"
 version = "0.2.0"
@@ -3411,6 +3451,17 @@ version = "0.2.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "e421abadd41a4225275504ea4d6566923418b7f05506fbc9c0fe86ba7396114b"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tryhard"
+version = "0.5.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9c9f0a709784e86923586cff0d872dba54cd2d2e116b3bc57587d15737cfce9d"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "typenum"
 version = "1.17.0"
@@ -3568,7 +3619,7 @@ name = "wadm"
 version = "0.14.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
- "async-nats",
+ "async-nats 0.36.0",
  "async-trait",
  "base64 0.22.1",
  "bytes",
@@ -3603,7 +3654,7 @@ name = "wadm-cli"
 version = "0.14.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
- "async-nats",
+ "async-nats 0.36.0",
  "async-trait",
  "base64 0.22.1",
  "chrono",
@@ -3634,7 +3685,7 @@ name = "wadm-client"
 version = "0.3.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
- "async-nats",
+ "async-nats 0.36.0",
  "bytes",
  "futures",
  "nkeys 0.4.3",
@@ -3653,7 +3704,7 @@ name = "wadm-types"
 version = "0.3.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
- "async-nats",
+ "async-nats 0.36.0",
  "async-trait",
  "base64 0.22.1",
  "bytes",
@@ -3849,7 +3900,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "fa9ce0245be791548d153536d4a849f7db9abc9340657bae00250e8a0f7f6bbc"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
- "async-nats",
+ "async-nats 0.33.0",
  "async-trait",
  "bytes",
  "cloudevents-sdk",
@@ -3872,7 +3923,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "a646a51b5c4410c6bd93aecbcc98f24921c88712de4549ab64617d88fb4acb88"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
- "async-nats",
+ "async-nats 0.33.0",
  "async-trait",
  "bytes",
  "futures",
@@ -4254,7 +4305,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c7a40219678cc9e65164487ff3540cddc463d2040950f010bd1d8ce27c8c9a6c"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
- "async-nats",
+ "async-nats 0.33.0",
  "bytes",
  "futures",
  "tokio",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 66307af8..b25bc6f0 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ wadm-types = { workspace = true }
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
 anyhow = "1"
-async-nats = "0.33"
+async-nats = "0.36"
 async-trait = "0.1"
 base64 = "0.22.1"
 bytes = "1"
@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ uuid = "1"
 wadm = { version = "0.14.0", path = "./crates/wadm" }
 wadm-client = { version = "0.3.0", path = "./crates/wadm-client" }
 wadm-types = { version = "0.3.0", path = "./crates/wadm-types" }
-wasmcloud-control-interface = "1.0.0"
+# wasmcloud-control-interface = "1.0.0"
+wasmcloud-control-interface = { version = "1.0.0", git = "https://github.com/wasmcloud/wasmcloud", branch = "feat/upgrade-async-nats" }
 wasmcloud-secrets-types = "0.2.0"
 wit-bindgen-wrpc = { version = "0.3.7", default-features = false }