diff --git a/applications/tari_base_node/Cargo.toml b/applications/tari_base_node/Cargo.toml
index 31ec087cc1..bfffbfeabe 100644
--- a/applications/tari_base_node/Cargo.toml
+++ b/applications/tari_base_node/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ authors = ["The Tari Development Community"]
 description = "The tari full base node implementation"
 repository = "https://github.com/tari-project/tari"
 license = "BSD-3-Clause"
-version = "0.2.6"
+version = "0.3.0"
 edition = "2018"
 
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