diff --git a/dagger.nimble b/dagger.nimble
index 5448d9f9..34bbc6cc 100644
--- a/dagger.nimble
+++ b/dagger.nimble
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ requires "nim >= 1.2.0",
          "chronicles >= 0.7.2",
          "chronos >= 2.5.2",
          "confutils",
-         "ethers >= 0.1.5 & < 0.2.0",
+         "ethers >= 0.1.6 & < 0.2.0",
          "libbacktrace",
          "libp2p",
          "metrics",
diff --git a/vendor/nim-ethers b/vendor/nim-ethers
index 8c45babc..0549800a 160000
--- a/vendor/nim-ethers
+++ b/vendor/nim-ethers
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 8c45babcdf21c0beff676f868db4e6beaac2b656
+Subproject commit 0549800af6551525cbca2998ce51d0a66f25a3ec