diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 53fd07832b..fd96bf6bdb 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5644,7 +5644,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "criterion",
  "ethereum-types",
  "ethnum",
- "hex-literal 0.3.4",
+ "hex-literal 0.4.1",
  "pprof",
  "reth-rlp",
  "reth-rlp-derive",
@@ -6693,9 +6693,9 @@ checksum = "a507befe795404456341dfab10cef66ead4c041f62b8b11bbb92bffe5d0953e0"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "smol_str"
-version = "0.1.24"
+version = "0.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "fad6c857cbab2627dcf01ec85a623ca4e7dcb5691cbaa3d7fb7653671f0d09c9"
+checksum = "74212e6bbe9a4352329b2f68ba3130c15a3f26fe88ff22dbdc6cdd58fa85e99c"
 dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
diff --git a/crates/net/eth-wire/Cargo.toml b/crates/net/eth-wire/Cargo.toml
index de43afd713..987f7505d9 100644
--- a/crates/net/eth-wire/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/net/eth-wire/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ tokio-stream = { workspace = true }
 pin-project = { workspace = true }
 tracing = { workspace = true }
 snap = "1.0.5"
-smol_str = "0.1"
+smol_str = "0.2"
 async-trait = { workspace = true }
 
 # arbitrary utils
diff --git a/crates/rlp/Cargo.toml b/crates/rlp/Cargo.toml
index 234e9a52c9..bae5cf2882 100644
--- a/crates/rlp/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/rlp/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ arrayvec = { version = "0.7", default-features = false }
 auto_impl = "1"
 bytes.workspace = true
 ethnum = { version = "1", default-features = false, optional = true }
-smol_str = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, optional = true }
+smol_str = { version = "0.2", default-features = false, optional = true }
 ethereum-types = { version = "0.14", features = ["codec"], optional = true }
 revm-primitives = { workspace = true, features = ["serde"] }
 reth-rlp-derive = {  path = "./rlp-derive", optional = true }
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ reth-rlp = { workspace = true, features = [
     "smol_str",
 ] }
 criterion = "0.4.0"
-hex-literal = "0.3"
+hex-literal = "0.4"
 pprof = { version = "0.11", features = ["flamegraph", "frame-pointer", "criterion"] }
 
 [features]