diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index a5b724322d..ce1606e131 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -118,6 +118,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustversion",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "arcstr"
+version = "1.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "03918c3dbd7701a85c6b9887732e2921175f26c350b4563841d0958c21d57e6d"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "arrayvec"
 version = "0.7.6"
@@ -136,6 +142,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "async-lock"
+version = "3.4.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "290f7f2596bd5b78a9fec8088ccd89180d7f9f55b94b0576823bbbdc72ee8311"
+dependencies = [
+ "event-listener",
+ "event-listener-strategy",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "async-trait"
 version = "0.1.89"
@@ -966,21 +983,20 @@ checksum = "a4ae5f15dda3c708c0ade84bfee31ccab44a3da4f88015ed22f63732abe300c8"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deadpool"
-version = "0.12.3"
+version = "0.13.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0be2b1d1d6ec8d846f05e137292d0b89133caf95ef33695424c09568bdd39b1b"
+checksum = "883466cb8db62725aee5f4a6011e8a5d42912b42632df32aad57fc91127c6e04"
 dependencies = [
  "deadpool-runtime",
- "lazy_static",
  "num_cpus",
  "tokio",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deadpool-redis"
-version = "0.18.0"
+version = "0.23.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "bfae6799b68a735270e4344ee3e834365f707c72da09c9a8bb89b45cc3351395"
+checksum = "bafa30c49dafe086d10116074e422ad7fc1c3cf554697e744a3ab112599ebd09"
 dependencies = [
  "deadpool",
  "redis",
@@ -988,9 +1004,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deadpool-runtime"
-version = "0.1.4"
+version = "0.3.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "092966b41edc516079bdf31ec78a2e0588d1d0c08f78b91d8307215928642b2b"
+checksum = "2657f61fb1dd8bf37a8d51093cc7cee4e77125b22f7753f49b289f831bec2bae"
 dependencies = [
  "tokio",
 ]
@@ -1140,6 +1156,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "pin-project-lite",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "event-listener-strategy"
+version = "0.5.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8be9f3dfaaffdae2972880079a491a1a8bb7cbed0b8dd7a347f668b4150a3b93"
+dependencies = [
+ "event-listener",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "evmap"
 version = "11.0.0"
@@ -1691,7 +1717,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "percent-encoding",
  "pin-project-lite",
- "socket2 0.6.3",
+ "socket2",
  "tokio",
  "tower-service",
  "tracing",
@@ -1941,15 +1967,6 @@ version = "1.70.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "a6cb138bb79a146c1bd460005623e142ef0181e3d0219cb493e02f7d08a35695"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "itertools"
-version = "0.13.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "413ee7dfc52ee1a4949ceeb7dbc8a33f2d6c088194d9f922fb8318faf1f01186"
-dependencies = [
- "either",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "itoa"
 version = "1.0.18"
@@ -2849,7 +2866,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "quinn-udp",
  "rustc-hash",
  "rustls",
- "socket2 0.6.3",
+ "socket2",
  "thiserror 2.0.18",
  "tokio",
  "tracing",
@@ -2887,7 +2904,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "cfg_aliases",
  "libc",
  "once_cell",
- "socket2 0.6.3",
+ "socket2",
  "tracing",
  "windows-sys 0.60.2",
 ]
@@ -3018,28 +3035,30 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "redis"
-version = "0.27.6"
+version = "1.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "09d8f99a4090c89cc489a94833c901ead69bfbf3877b4867d5482e321ee875bc"
+checksum = "72d32a1ac9123f0d84fda64bfc02a271d9868483162dd2d9099b5c362ece064c"
 dependencies = [
  "arc-swap",
- "async-trait",
+ "arcstr",
+ "async-lock",
  "backon",
  "bytes",
+ "cfg-if",
  "combine",
- "futures",
+ "futures-channel",
  "futures-util",
- "itertools",
  "itoa",
  "num-bigint",
  "percent-encoding",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "ryu",
  "sha1_smol",
- "socket2 0.5.10",
+ "socket2",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-util",
  "url",
+ "xxhash-rust",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3804,16 +3823,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "socket2"
-version = "0.5.10"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e22376abed350d73dd1cd119b57ffccad95b4e585a7cda43e286245ce23c0678"
-dependencies = [
- "libc",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "socket2"
 version = "0.6.3"
@@ -4741,7 +4750,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "mio",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "signal-hook-registry",
- "socket2 0.6.3",
+ "socket2",
  "tokio-macros",
  "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
@@ -5928,6 +5937,12 @@ version = "0.6.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "1ffae5123b2d3fc086436f8834ae3ab053a283cfac8fe0a0b8eaae044768a4c4"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "xxhash-rust"
+version = "0.8.15"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "fdd20c5420375476fbd4394763288da7eb0cc0b8c11deed431a91562af7335d3"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "yoke"
 version = "0.8.2"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 54f885e306..c438aac29e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ sqlx = { version = "0.8", features = [
 ] }
 
 # Redis
-redis        = { version = "0.27", features = ["tokio-comp", "connection-manager"] }
-deadpool-redis = { version = "0.18", features = ["rt_tokio_1"] }
+redis        = { version = "1.0", features = ["tokio-comp", "connection-manager"] }
+deadpool-redis = { version = "0.23", features = ["rt_tokio_1"] }
 
 # Nostr
 nostr = { version = "0.36" }
diff --git a/deny.toml b/deny.toml
index 89bb17dd00..3af60e829e 100644
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ allow = [
     "CDLA-Permissive-2.0",
     "MITNFA",
     "MPL-2.0",
+    "BSL-1.0",
 ]
 confidence-threshold = 0.8