diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 331cb0c46..a4300f971 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ djangorestframework==3.14.0
 hexbytes==0.3.1
 packaging
 psycopg2-binary==2.9.9
-py-evm==0.7.0a4
+py-evm==0.8.0b1
 pysha3>=1.0.0,<2.0.0; python_version<"3.9"
 requests==2.31.0
 safe-pysha3>=1.0.0; python_version>="3.9"