diff --git a/tendermint/Cargo.toml b/tendermint/Cargo.toml
index a7921321d..0a0c3c20f 100644
--- a/tendermint/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tendermint/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ hyper = { version = "0.10" }
 prost-amino = { version = "0.4.0" }
 prost-amino-derive = { version = "0.4.0" }
 rand_os = { version = "0.1" }
-ring = { version = "0.14" }
+ring = { version = "0.16" }
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = { version = "1" }
 signatory = { version = "0.12", features = ["ed25519", "ecdsa"] }