diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index db6edfa81d539..52f5ec93bbfa8 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -8671,7 +8671,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "substrate-test-runtime-client",
  "tempfile",
  "thiserror",
- "unsigned-varint 0.6.0",
+ "unsigned-varint 0.7.0",
  "void",
  "zeroize",
 ]
@@ -11520,18 +11520,6 @@ version = "0.5.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f7fdeedbf205afadfe39ae559b75c3240f24e257d0ca27e85f85cb82aa19ac35"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "unsigned-varint"
-version = "0.6.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "35581ff83d4101e58b582e607120c7f5ffb17e632a980b1f38334d76b36908b2"
-dependencies = [
- "asynchronous-codec 0.5.0",
- "bytes 1.1.0",
- "futures-io",
- "futures-util",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "unsigned-varint"
 version = "0.7.0"
diff --git a/client/network/Cargo.toml b/client/network/Cargo.toml
index 0dbdd3ec50e95..3f4b21fb60dcd 100644
--- a/client/network/Cargo.toml
+++ b/client/network/Cargo.toml
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ sp-runtime = { version = "6.0.0", path = "../../primitives/runtime" }
 sc-utils = { version = "4.0.0-dev", path = "../utils" }
 sp-finality-grandpa = { version = "4.0.0-dev", path = "../../primitives/finality-grandpa" }
 thiserror = "1.0"
-unsigned-varint = { version = "0.6.0", features = [
+unsigned-varint = { version = "0.7.0", features = [
     "futures",
     "asynchronous_codec",
 ] }