diff --git a/contracts/test-utils/src/constants.ts b/contracts/test-utils/src/constants.ts
index 45bcc6ff72..5e33b32295 100644
--- a/contracts/test-utils/src/constants.ts
+++ b/contracts/test-utils/src/constants.ts
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ export const constants = {
     BASE_16: 16,
     INVALID_OPCODE: 'invalid opcode',
     TESTRPC_NETWORK_ID: 50,
+    TESTRPC_CHAIN_ID: 1337,
     // Note(albrow): In practice V8 and most other engines limit the minimum
     // interval for setInterval to 10ms. We still set it to 0 here in order to
     // ensure we always use the minimum interval.
diff --git a/contracts/test-utils/test/mocha_blockchain.ts b/contracts/test-utils/test/mocha_blockchain.ts
index bf21bbe41d..15c4ea43e5 100644
--- a/contracts/test-utils/test/mocha_blockchain.ts
+++ b/contracts/test-utils/test/mocha_blockchain.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ blockchainTests('mocha blockchain extensions', env => {
         });
 
         it('initializes the test environment', async () => {
-            expect(await env.getChainIdAsync()).to.eq(constants.TESTRPC_NETWORK_ID);
+            expect(await env.getChainIdAsync()).to.eq(constants.TESTRPC_CHAIN_ID);
             expect(await env.getAccountAddressesAsync()).to.be.not.empty('');
         });
 
diff --git a/packages/migrations/CHANGELOG.json b/packages/migrations/CHANGELOG.json
index 5056bca91e..04a5829780 100644
--- a/packages/migrations/CHANGELOG.json
+++ b/packages/migrations/CHANGELOG.json
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
 [
+    {
+        "version": "4.4.0-beta.1",
+        "changes": [
+            {
+                "note": "Update all contract deployments to pass the actual chain ID (rather than the network ID) via the newly modified @0x/utils/provider_utils",
+                "pr": 2270
+            }
+        ]
+    },
     {
         "version": "4.4.0-beta.0",
         "changes": [
diff --git a/packages/utils/CHANGELOG.json b/packages/utils/CHANGELOG.json
index 356ae9535e..769fd80687 100644
--- a/packages/utils/CHANGELOG.json
+++ b/packages/utils/CHANGELOG.json
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
             {
                 "note": "Consolidated FixedMathRevertErrors",
                 "pr": 2255
+            },
+            {
+                "note": "Changed provider_utils.providerUtils.getChainIdAsync() to invoke RPC method eth_chainId rather than net_version",
+                "pr": 2270
             }
         ]
     },
diff --git a/packages/utils/src/provider_utils.ts b/packages/utils/src/provider_utils.ts
index 736d54fae4..0a9849bdb9 100644
--- a/packages/utils/src/provider_utils.ts
+++ b/packages/utils/src/provider_utils.ts
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ export const providerUtils = {
                 {
                     jsonrpc: '2.0',
                     id: _.random(1, RPC_ID_MAX),
-                    method: 'net_version',
+                    method: 'eth_chainId',
                     params: [],
                 },
                 (err: Error | null, result?: JSONRPCResponsePayload) => {
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ export const providerUtils = {
                         reject(err);
                     }
                     if (!result) {
-                        throw new Error("Invalid 'net_version' response");
+                        throw new Error("Invalid 'eth_chainId' response");
                     }
                     accept(_.toNumber(result.result));
                 },