diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 37f18f2cd2..7c311ec1e7 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1813,6 +1813,19 @@ dependencies = [
  "zeroize",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "curve25519-dalek-ng"
+version = "4.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1c359b7249347e46fb28804470d071c921156ad62b3eef5d34e2ba867533dec8"
+dependencies = [
+ "byteorder",
+ "digest 0.9.0",
+ "rand_core 0.6.4",
+ "subtle-ng",
+ "zeroize",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cxx"
 version = "1.0.95"
@@ -5017,6 +5030,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "zeroize",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "merlin"
+version = "3.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "58c38e2799fc0978b65dfff8023ec7843e2330bb462f19198840b34b6582397d"
+dependencies = [
+ "byteorder",
+ "keccak",
+ "rand_core 0.6.4",
+ "zeroize",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "minimal-lexical"
 version = "0.2.1"
@@ -10376,7 +10401,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "arrayvec 0.5.2",
  "curve25519-dalek 2.1.3",
  "getrandom 0.1.16",
- "merlin",
+ "merlin 2.0.1",
  "rand 0.7.3",
  "rand_core 0.5.1",
  "sha2 0.8.2",
@@ -10384,6 +10409,23 @@ dependencies = [
  "zeroize",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "schnorrkel"
+version = "0.10.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "844b7645371e6ecdf61ff246ba1958c29e802881a749ae3fb1993675d210d28d"
+dependencies = [
+ "arrayref",
+ "arrayvec 0.7.2",
+ "curve25519-dalek-ng",
+ "merlin 3.0.0",
+ "rand_core 0.6.4",
+ "serde_bytes",
+ "sha2 0.9.9",
+ "subtle-ng",
+ "zeroize",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "scopeguard"
 version = "1.1.0"
@@ -10548,6 +10590,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_derive",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "serde_bytes"
+version = "0.11.9"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "416bda436f9aab92e02c8e10d49a15ddd339cea90b6e340fe51ed97abb548294"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_derive"
 version = "1.0.163"
@@ -11158,7 +11209,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "lazy_static",
  "libsecp256k1",
  "log",
- "merlin",
+ "merlin 2.0.1",
  "parity-scale-codec",
  "parking_lot 0.12.1",
  "paste",
@@ -11166,7 +11217,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rand 0.8.5",
  "regex",
  "scale-info",
- "schnorrkel",
+ "schnorrkel 0.10.2",
  "secp256k1",
  "secrecy",
  "serde",
@@ -11904,7 +11955,7 @@ checksum = "49eee6965196b32f882dd2ee85a92b1dbead41b04e53907f269de3b0dc04733c"
 dependencies = [
  "hmac 0.11.0",
  "pbkdf2 0.8.0",
- "schnorrkel",
+ "schnorrkel 0.9.1",
  "sha2 0.9.9",
  "zeroize",
 ]
@@ -12200,6 +12251,12 @@ version = "2.4.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6bdef32e8150c2a081110b42772ffe7d7c9032b606bc226c8260fd97e0976601"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "subtle-ng"
+version = "2.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "734676eb262c623cec13c3155096e08d1f8f29adce39ba17948b18dad1e54142"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "syn"
 version = "1.0.109"
diff --git a/primitives/core/Cargo.toml b/primitives/core/Cargo.toml
index 6c043d5a21..620c4a8448 100644
--- a/primitives/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/primitives/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ array-bytes = { version = "4.1", optional = true }
 ed25519-zebra = { version = "3.1.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
 blake2 = { version = "0.10.4", default-features = false, optional = true }
 libsecp256k1 = { version = "0.7", default-features = false, features = ["static-context"], optional = true }
-schnorrkel = { version = "0.9.1", features = ["preaudit_deprecated", "u64_backend"], default-features = false }
+schnorrkel = { version = "0.10.2", features = ["preaudit_deprecated", "u64_backend"], default-features = false }
 merlin = { version = "2.0", default-features = false }
 secp256k1 = { version = "0.24.0", default-features = false, features = ["recovery", "alloc"], optional = true }
 sp-core-hashing = { version = "9.0.0", path = "./hashing", default-features = false, optional = true }