diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index fac36dca3..6501e0148 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ executors:
     environment:
       IMAGE_NAME: portalnetwork/trin
     docker:
-      - image: cimg/rust:1.80.0
+      - image: cimg/rust:1.81.0
   docker-nightly:
     docker:
       - image: rustlang/rust:nightly
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ jobs:
     resource_class: xlarge
     executor:
       name: rust/default
-      tag: 1.80.0
+      tag: 1.81.0
     environment:
       RUSTFLAGS: "-D warnings"
       RUST_LOG: "debug"
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ jobs:
     resource_class: xlarge
     executor:
       name: rust/default
-      tag: 1.80.0
+      tag: 1.81.0
     environment:
       RUSTFLAGS: "-D warnings"
       RUST_LOG: "debug"
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ jobs:
     resource_class: 2xlarge
     executor:
       name: rust/default
-      tag: 1.80.0
+      tag: 1.81.0
     environment:
       RUSTFLAGS: "-D warnings"
       RUST_LOG: "debug,html5ever=error,selectors=error,discv5::service=info"
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ jobs:
   check-workspace-crates:
     executor:
       name: rust/default
-      tag: 1.79.0
+      tag: 1.81.0
     # parallelism level should be set to the amount of simulators we have or greater
     # The reason for this is the CI code currently only supports 1 input at a time
     # if we have a parallelism level of 5 and 6 sims one test runner will get 2 test sims and fail
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e480b6609..fbd61d6d5 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name = "trin"
 version = "0.1.0"
 authors = ["https://github.com/ethereum/trin/graphs/contributors"]
 edition = "2021"
-rust-version = "1.80.0"
+rust-version = "1.81.0"
 default-run = "trin"
 repository = "https://github.com/ethereum/trin"
 license = "GPL-3.0"
diff --git a/book/src/developers/quick_setup.md b/book/src/developers/quick_setup.md
index c444196e5..7967a91b4 100644
--- a/book/src/developers/quick_setup.md
+++ b/book/src/developers/quick_setup.md
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ rustc --version
 You should see something like:
 
 ```bash
-rustc 1.80.0 (051478957 2024-07-21)
+rustc 1.81.0 (051478957 2024-07-21)
 ```
 
 Next, install the required dependencies:
@@ -207,4 +207,4 @@ nc -U /tmp/trin-jsonrpc.ipc
 {"id":86,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"enr:-IS4QHK_CnCsQKT-mFTilJ5msHacIJtU91aYe8FhAd_K7G-ACO-FO2GPFOyM7kiphjXMwrNh8Y4mSbN3ufSdBQFzjikBgmlkgnY0gmlwhMCoAMKJc2VjcDI1NmsxoQNa58x56RRRcUeOegry5S4yQvLa6LKlDcbBPHL4H5Oy4oN1ZHCCIyg"}
 ```
 
-For something in between, you may use `curl` to send requests to the HTTP JSON-RPC endpoint.
\ No newline at end of file
+For something in between, you may use `curl` to send requests to the HTTP JSON-RPC endpoint.
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
index ba19e9524..ddcfb4a3f 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # select build image
-FROM rust:1.80.0 AS builder
+FROM rust:1.81.0 AS builder
 
 # create a new empty shell project
 RUN USER=root cargo new --bin trin
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile.bridge b/docker/Dockerfile.bridge
index d7de25324..62553cddb 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile.bridge
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile.bridge
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ RUN mkdir /portal-accumulators
 COPY ./portal-accumulators /portal-accumulators
 
 # select build image
-FROM rust:1.80.0 AS builder
+FROM rust:1.81.0 AS builder
 
 # create a new empty shell project
 RUN USER=root cargo new --bin trin
diff --git a/utp-testing/docker/Dockerfile b/utp-testing/docker/Dockerfile
index e0cc02fae..bae193358 100644
--- a/utp-testing/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/utp-testing/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM rust:1.80.0-bullseye AS builder
+FROM rust:1.81.0-bullseye AS builder
 
 RUN apt-get update \
  && apt-get install clang -y \