diff --git a/rpc/poetry.lock b/rpc/poetry.lock
index 7a7e187d5..f64a017be 100644
--- a/rpc/poetry.lock
+++ b/rpc/poetry.lock
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ files = [
 name = "cffi"
 version = "1.16.0"
 description = "Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code."
-optional = false
+optional = true
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
     {file = "cffi-1.16.0-cp310-cp310-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:6b3d6606d369fc1da4fd8c357d026317fbb9c9b75d36dc16e90e84c26854b088"},
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ toml = ["tomli"]
 name = "cryptography"
 version = "42.0.2"
 description = "cryptography is a package which provides cryptographic recipes and primitives to Python developers."
-optional = false
+optional = true
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
     {file = "cryptography-42.0.2-cp37-abi3-macosx_10_12_universal2.whl", hash = "sha256:701171f825dcab90969596ce2af253143b93b08f1a716d4b2a9d2db5084ef7be"},
@@ -1679,7 +1679,7 @@ wcwidth = "*"
 name = "pycparser"
 version = "2.21"
 description = "C parser in Python"
-optional = false
+optional = true
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*"
 files = [
     {file = "pycparser-2.21-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:8ee45429555515e1f6b185e78100aea234072576aa43ab53aefcae078162fca9"},
@@ -1842,20 +1842,21 @@ testing = ["argcomplete", "attrs (>=19.2.0)", "hypothesis (>=3.56)", "mock", "no
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pytest-asyncio"
-version = "0.14.0"
-description = "Pytest support for asyncio."
+version = "0.23.5"
+description = "Pytest support for asyncio"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">= 3.5"
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "pytest-asyncio-0.14.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:9882c0c6b24429449f5f969a5158b528f39bde47dc32e85b9f0403965017e700"},
-    {file = "pytest_asyncio-0.14.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:2eae1e34f6c68fc0a9dc12d4bea190483843ff4708d24277c41568d6b6044f1d"},
+    {file = "pytest-asyncio-0.23.5.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:3a048872a9c4ba14c3e90cc1aa20cbc2def7d01c7c8db3777ec281ba9c057675"},
+    {file = "pytest_asyncio-0.23.5-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:4e7093259ba018d58ede7d5315131d21923a60f8a6e9ee266ce1589685c89eac"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
-pytest = ">=5.4.0"
+pytest = ">=7.0.0,<9"
 
 [package.extras]
-testing = ["async-generator (>=1.3)", "coverage", "hypothesis (>=5.7.1)"]
+docs = ["sphinx (>=5.3)", "sphinx-rtd-theme (>=1.0)"]
+testing = ["coverage (>=6.2)", "hypothesis (>=5.7.1)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pytest-cov"
@@ -2556,4 +2557,4 @@ aca-py = ["aries-cloudagent"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.9"
-content-hash = "f7965152d65d859ef7e03ee633473e8ecee1c272bdee55c7b9354e67e512e21f"
+content-hash = "20c4a24dc4df34e96449cdb382ceaa3c1ad2b0d1710b7bffb534de75964b7479"
diff --git a/rpc/pyproject.toml b/rpc/pyproject.toml
index c64ee734b..36bfea412 100644
--- a/rpc/pyproject.toml
+++ b/rpc/pyproject.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ ruff = "^0.1.2"
 black = "23.7.0"
 asynctest = "0.13.0"
 pytest = "~7.4.0"
-pytest-asyncio = "0.14.0"
+pytest-asyncio = "0.23.5"
 pytest-cov = "2.10.1"
 pytest-ruff = "^0.1.1"