diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5d13225a..d8c76a9c 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ members = [
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
 serde_json = "1.0.41"
-criterion = "0.6.0"
+criterion = "0.8.1"
 rand = { version = "0.8.0", default-features = false }
 hex-literal = "1.0.0"
 scale-info = { version = ">=1.0, <3", default-features = false }