diff --git a/validator/pyproject.toml b/validator/pyproject.toml
index b1fc63c..dd138a3 100644
--- a/validator/pyproject.toml
+++ b/validator/pyproject.toml
@@ -8,18 +8,18 @@ authors = [{ name = "gm contributors" }]
 dependencies = [
     "boto3>=1.35,<2",
     "pydantic>=2.10,<3",
-    "prometheus-client>=0.21,<0.23",
+    "prometheus-client>=0.21,<0.26",
     # Real on-chain weight submission + metagraph uid lookup. Imported
     # lazily (inside functions) so the test path, which uses
     # MockSubmitter, never loads it; declared here because production
     # and `ty` resolution both need it installed.
-    "bittensor==10.2.0",
+    "bittensor==10.4.1",
     # bittensor 10.2.0 pins scalecodec==1.2.12 but leaves
     # async-substrate-interface unbounded (>=1.6.2). Its 2.x line swapped
     # scalecodec for cyscale and raises on import if scalecodec is present,
     # so an unbounded resolve to 2.x breaks every real-submitter import.
     # Hold it on the 1.6.x line bittensor 10.2.0 was built against.
-    "async-substrate-interface>=1.6.2,<2",
+    "async-substrate-interface>=1.6.2,<3",
 ]
 
 [dependency-groups]
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ dev = [
     "boto3-stubs[s3]>=1.35",
     "moto[s3]>=5.0",
     # Test-only: the integration test compresses a raw.jsonl fixture.
-    "zstandard>=0.23,<0.24",
+    "zstandard>=0.23,<0.26",
 ]
 
 [build-system]