diff --git a/operator/.cargo/audit.toml b/operator/.cargo/audit.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6b107e46..00000000
--- a/operator/.cargo/audit.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-[advisories]
-# These advisories are currently pinned by upstream dependencies in the
-# Frontier and polkadot-sdk stacks used by this branch.
-ignore = [
-  "RUSTSEC-2025-0009", # ring >= 0.17.12 required by upstream dependency graph
-  "RUSTSEC-2024-0363", # sqlx >= 0.8.1 required by Frontier's fc-db/fc-rpc stack
-  "RUSTSEC-2023-0091", # wasmtime fixes require moving off the 8.x line
-  "RUSTSEC-2026-0020",
-  "RUSTSEC-2026-0021",
-  "RUSTSEC-2024-0438",
-  "RUSTSEC-2025-0118",
-]
diff --git a/operator/Cargo.lock b/operator/Cargo.lock
index 847abb1b..5ccff712 100644
--- a/operator/Cargo.lock
+++ b/operator/Cargo.lock
@@ -1268,7 +1268,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "bitflags 2.9.4",
  "cexpr",
  "clang-sys",
- "itertools 0.11.0",
+ "itertools 0.13.0",
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
  "regex",
@@ -1701,9 +1701,9 @@ checksum = "1fd0f2584146f6f2ef48085050886acf353beff7305ebd1ae69500e27c67f64b"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bytes"
-version = "1.11.1"
+version = "1.10.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1e748733b7cbc798e1434b6ac524f0c1ff2ab456fe201501e6497c8417a4fc33"
+checksum = "d71b6127be86fdcfddb610f7182ac57211d4b18a3e9c82eb2d17662f2227ad6a"
 dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
@@ -3948,7 +3948,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "39cab71617ae0d63f51a36d69f866391735b51691dbda63cf6f96d042b63efeb"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
- "windows-sys 0.59.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -6147,7 +6147,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "4b0f83760fb341a774ed326568e19f5a863af4a952def8c39f9ab92fd95b88e5"
 dependencies = [
  "equivalent",
- "hashbrown 0.15.5",
+ "hashbrown 0.16.0",
  "serde",
  "serde_core",
 ]
@@ -6489,9 +6489,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "keccak"
-version = "0.1.6"
+version = "0.1.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "cb26cec98cce3a3d96cbb7bced3c4b16e3d13f27ec56dbd62cbc8f39cfb9d653"
+checksum = "ecc2af9a1119c51f12a14607e783cb977bde58bc069ff0c3da1095e635d70654"
 dependencies = [
  "cpufeatures",
 ]
@@ -8074,9 +8074,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "num-conv"
-version = "0.2.1"
+version = "0.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c6673768db2d862beb9b39a78fdcb1a69439615d5794a1be50caa9bc92c81967"
+checksum = "51d515d32fb182ee37cda2ccdcb92950d6a3c2893aa280e540671c2cd0f3b1d9"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "num-derive"
@@ -8166,7 +8166,7 @@ version = "0.7.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "77e878c846a8abae00dd069496dbe8751b16ac1c3d6bd2a7283a938e8228f90d"
 dependencies = [
- "proc-macro-crate 1.1.3",
+ "proc-macro-crate 3.4.0",
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
  "syn 2.0.106",
@@ -11167,7 +11167,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "be769465445e8c1474e9c5dac2018218498557af32d9ed057325ec9a41ae81bf"
 dependencies = [
  "heck 0.5.0",
- "itertools 0.11.0",
+ "itertools 0.13.0",
  "log",
  "multimap",
  "once_cell",
@@ -11200,7 +11200,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "8a56d757972c98b346a9b766e3f02746cde6dd1cd1d1d563472929fdd74bec4d"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
- "itertools 0.11.0",
+ "itertools 0.13.0",
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
  "syn 2.0.106",
@@ -11299,9 +11299,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
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-version = "0.11.14"
+version = "0.11.13"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "434b42fec591c96ef50e21e886936e66d3cc3f737104fdb9b737c40ffb94c098"
+checksum = "f1906b49b0c3bc04b5fe5d86a77925ae6524a19b816ae38ce1e426255f1d8a31"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "getrandom 0.3.3",
@@ -11790,9 +11790,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ruint"
-version = "1.17.2"
+version = "1.17.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c141e807189ad38a07276942c6623032d3753c8859c146104ac2e4d68865945a"
+checksum = "a68df0380e5c9d20ce49534f292a36a7514ae21350726efe1865bdb1fa91d278"
 dependencies = [
  "alloy-rlp",
  "ark-ff 0.3.0",
@@ -11897,7 +11897,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "errno",
  "libc",
  "linux-raw-sys 0.11.0",
- "windows-sys 0.59.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -11910,7 +11910,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
  "ring 0.17.14",
  "rustls-pki-types",
- "rustls-webpki 0.103.10",
+ "rustls-webpki 0.103.7",
  "subtle 2.6.1",
  "zeroize",
 ]
@@ -11960,7 +11960,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustls",
  "rustls-native-certs",
  "rustls-platform-verifier-android",
- "rustls-webpki 0.103.10",
+ "rustls-webpki 0.103.7",
  "security-framework 3.5.1",
  "security-framework-sys",
  "webpki-root-certs 0.26.11",
@@ -11985,9 +11985,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rustls-webpki"
-version = "0.103.10"
+version = "0.103.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "df33b2b81ac578cabaf06b89b0631153a3f416b0a886e8a7a1707fb51abbd1ef"
+checksum = "e10b3f4191e8a80e6b43eebabfac91e5dcecebb27a71f04e820c47ec41d314bf"
 dependencies = [
  "ring 0.17.14",
  "rustls-pki-types",
@@ -16743,7 +16743,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "getrandom 0.3.3",
  "once_cell",
  "rustix 1.1.2",
- "windows-sys 0.59.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -16858,30 +16858,30 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "time"
-version = "0.3.47"
+version = "0.3.44"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "743bd48c283afc0388f9b8827b976905fb217ad9e647fae3a379a9283c4def2c"
+checksum = "91e7d9e3bb61134e77bde20dd4825b97c010155709965fedf0f49bb138e52a9d"
 dependencies = [
  "deranged",
  "itoa",
  "num-conv",
  "powerfmt",
- "serde_core",
+ "serde",
  "time-core",
  "time-macros",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "time-core"
-version = "0.1.8"
+version = "0.1.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7694e1cfe791f8d31026952abf09c69ca6f6fa4e1a1229e18988f06a04a12dca"
+checksum = "40868e7c1d2f0b8d73e4a8c7f0ff63af4f6d19be117e90bd73eb1d62cf831c6b"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "time-macros"
-version = "0.2.27"
+version = "0.2.24"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2e70e4c5a0e0a8a4823ad65dfe1a6930e4f4d756dcd9dd7939022b5e8c501215"
+checksum = "30cfb0125f12d9c277f35663a0a33f8c30190f4e4574868a330595412d34ebf3"
 dependencies = [
  "num-conv",
  "time-core",
@@ -18302,7 +18302,7 @@ version = "0.1.11"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c2a7b1c03c876122aa43f3020e6c3c3ee5c05081c9a00739faf7503aeba10d22"
 dependencies = [
- "windows-sys 0.48.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]