diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index affff2aa55..48b519ae15 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
     "multiaddr": "^6.1.1",
     "multiaddr-to-uri": "^5.0.0",
     "multibase": "~0.6.0",
-    "multicodec": "~0.5.5",
+    "multicodec": "~1.0.0",
     "multihashes": "~0.4.14",
     "multihashing-async": "^0.8.0",
     "node-fetch": "^2.3.0",