diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 9e3fb4ab6c..8326d4841a 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3488,12 +3488,11 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "randomx-rs"
-version = "0.5.0"
+version = "1.1.9"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8da103db7f8022a2646a11e8f58de98d137089f90c3eb0bb54ed18f12ecb73b7"
+checksum = "e4ba6cd8d99a8ba5eb5e5ca9bbb96b9a180c7eddfe88df166e3ecb0284432cdb"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 1.3.2",
- "git2",
  "libc",
  "thiserror",
 ]
diff --git a/base_layer/core/Cargo.toml b/base_layer/core/Cargo.toml
index 45e7f29229..c70f9ae69f 100644
--- a/base_layer/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/base_layer/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ num = "0.3"
 prost = "0.8.0"
 prost-types = "0.8.0"
 rand = "0.8"
-randomx-rs = { version = "0.5.0", optional = true }
+randomx-rs = { version = "1.1.9", optional = true }
 serde = { version = "1.0.106", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
 strum_macros = "0.17.1"