diff --git a/requires.txt b/requires.txt
index 327bfaa79..2db52a9d2 100644
--- a/requires.txt
+++ b/requires.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ keyrings.cryptfile==1.3.4
 PyYAML==5.4.1
 setproctitle==1.2.2
 sortedcontainers==2.3.0
-websockets==8.1.0
+websockets==10.4
 click==7.1.2
 dnspython==2.1.0
 watchdog==2.1.3
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5052c4757..6e191e687 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     "PyYAML==5.4.1",  # Used for config file format
     "setproctitle==1.2.2",  # Gives the chaingreen processes readable names
     "sortedcontainers==2.4.0",  # For maintaining sorted mempools
-    "websockets==8.1.0",  # For use in wallet RPC and electron UI
+    "websockets==10.4",  # For use in wallet RPC and electron UI
     "click==7.1.2",  # For the CLI
     "dnspython==2.1.0",  # Query DNS seeds
     "watchdog==2.1.3",  # Filesystem event watching - watches keyring.yaml