diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c4d1bff02..b112634f4 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
     "bl": "^3.0.0",
     "bs58": "^4.0.1",
     "chai": "^4.2.0",
-    "cids": "~0.5.8",
+    "cids": "~0.7.1",
     "concat-stream": "^2.0.0",
     "dirty-chai": "^2.0.1",
     "es6-promisify": "^6.0.1",