diff --git a/hiero-enterprise-base/pom.xml b/hiero-enterprise-base/pom.xml
index cb5df80e..8d4f9be7 100644
--- a/hiero-enterprise-base/pom.xml
+++ b/hiero-enterprise-base/pom.xml
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
       <groupId>com.hedera.hashgraph</groupId>
       <artifactId>sdk</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.squareup.okio</groupId>
+      <artifactId>okio</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>io.github.cdimascio</groupId>
       <artifactId>dotenv-java</artifactId>
diff --git a/hiero-enterprise-base/src/main/java/module-info.java b/hiero-enterprise-base/src/main/java/module-info.java
index e39e541b..337015e3 100644
--- a/hiero-enterprise-base/src/main/java/module-info.java
+++ b/hiero-enterprise-base/src/main/java/module-info.java
@@ -24,4 +24,5 @@
   requires com.google.protobuf; // TODO: We should not have the need to use it
   requires static org.jspecify;
   requires com.google.auto.service;
+  requires okio;
 }
diff --git a/hiero-enterprise-base/src/test/java/module-info.java b/hiero-enterprise-base/src/test/java/module-info.java
index f03cc192..986632c7 100644
--- a/hiero-enterprise-base/src/test/java/module-info.java
+++ b/hiero-enterprise-base/src/test/java/module-info.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
   requires org.junit.jupiter.params;
   requires org.mockito;
   requires org.slf4j;
+  requires okio;
 
   provides com.openelements.hiero.base.config.NetworkSettingsProvider with
       com.openelements.hiero.base.test.config.SoloActionNetworkSettingsProvider;
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 436b0717..1c09d172 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 
     <hedera.sdk-version>2.32.0</hedera.sdk-version>
-    <grpc.version>1.58.0</grpc.version>
+    <grpc.version>1.77.0</grpc.version>
     <spring.version>6.1.8</spring.version>
     <spring.boot.version>3.3.0</spring.boot.version>
     <jspecify.version>1.0.0</jspecify.version>
@@ -151,6 +151,11 @@
         <artifactId>grpc-protobuf-lite</artifactId>
         <version>${grpc.version}</version>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>com.squareup.okio</groupId>
+        <artifactId>okio</artifactId>
+        <version>3.4.0</version>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.jspecify</groupId>
         <artifactId>jspecify</artifactId>