diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3000ea45..6a88e8f2 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -365,9 +365,9 @@ checksum = "14c189c53d098945499cdfa7ecc63567cf3886b3332b312a5b4585d8d3a6a610"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bytes"
-version = "1.1.0"
+version = "1.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c4872d67bab6358e59559027aa3b9157c53d9358c51423c17554809a8858e0f8"
+checksum = "f0b3de4a0c5e67e16066a0715723abd91edc2f9001d09c46e1dca929351e130e"
 dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index fa3a71eb..378a6815 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ serde = { version = "1.0.124", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.64"
 tokio = { version = "1.18", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 hex = "0.4.3"
-bytes = "1.1.0"
+bytes = "1.2.0"
 
 
 # profile for the wasm example
diff --git a/ethers-core/Cargo.toml b/ethers-core/Cargo.toml
index f174ab76..68abf175 100644
--- a/ethers-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ethers-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ chrono = { version = "0.4", default-features = false }
 serde = { version = "1.0.124", default-features = false, features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = { version = "1.0.64", default-features = false }
 thiserror = { version = "1.0", default-features = false }
-bytes = { version = "1.1.0", features = ["serde"] }
+bytes = { version = "1.2.0", features = ["serde"] }
 hex = { version = "0.4.3", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 once_cell = { version = "1.13.0", optional = true }
 unicode-xid = "0.2.3"
diff --git a/ethers-providers/Cargo.toml b/ethers-providers/Cargo.toml
index 4c7f5f67..19e590f2 100644
--- a/ethers-providers/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ethers-providers/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ pin-project = { version = "1.0.11", default-features = false }
 tracing = { version = "0.1.35", default-features = false }
 tracing-futures = { version = "0.2.5", default-features = false, features = ["std-future"] }
 
-bytes = { version  = "1.1.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
+bytes = { version  = "1.2.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
 once_cell = "1.13.0"
 hashers = "1.0.1"