diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 77046bc729e..65cb06c5d5d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2257,7 +2257,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
  "tokio-rustls",
  "tokio-stream",
- "tokio-tungstenite 0.24.0",
+ "tokio-tungstenite",
  "tokio-tungstenite-wasm",
  "tokio-util",
  "tracing",
@@ -2538,7 +2538,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
  "tokio-rustls",
  "tokio-rustls-acme",
- "tokio-tungstenite 0.24.0",
+ "tokio-tungstenite",
  "tokio-tungstenite-wasm",
  "tokio-util",
  "toml",
@@ -5054,19 +5054,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures-util",
  "log",
  "tokio",
- "tungstenite 0.21.0",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "tokio-tungstenite"
-version = "0.24.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "edc5f74e248dc973e0dbb7b74c7e0d6fcc301c694ff50049504004ef4d0cdcd9"
-dependencies = [
- "futures-util",
- "log",
- "tokio",
- "tungstenite 0.24.0",
+ "tungstenite",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -5082,7 +5070,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "js-sys",
  "thiserror 1.0.69",
  "tokio",
- "tokio-tungstenite 0.21.0",
+ "tokio-tungstenite",
  "wasm-bindgen",
  "web-sys",
 ]
@@ -5308,24 +5296,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "utf-8",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "tungstenite"
-version = "0.24.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "18e5b8366ee7a95b16d32197d0b2604b43a0be89dc5fac9f8e96ccafbaedda8a"
-dependencies = [
- "byteorder",
- "bytes",
- "data-encoding",
- "http 1.1.0",
- "httparse",
- "log",
- "rand",
- "sha1",
- "thiserror 1.0.69",
- "utf-8",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "typenum"
 version = "1.17.0"
diff --git a/iroh-relay/Cargo.toml b/iroh-relay/Cargo.toml
index 7c21715f98d..4bbf92d8a6d 100644
--- a/iroh-relay/Cargo.toml
+++ b/iroh-relay/Cargo.toml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ tokio-rustls = { version = "0.26", default-features = false, features = [
     "ring",
 ] }
 tokio-rustls-acme = { version = "0.6", optional = true }
-tokio-tungstenite = "0.24"
+tokio-tungstenite = "0.21" # avoid duplicating this dependency as long as tokio-tungstenite-wasm isn't updated
 tokio-tungstenite-wasm = "0.3"
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7", features = ["io-util", "io", "codec", "rt"] }
 toml = { version = "0.8", optional = true }
diff --git a/iroh/Cargo.toml b/iroh/Cargo.toml
index 15dafae9b47..d79fde0bad7 100644
--- a/iroh/Cargo.toml
+++ b/iroh/Cargo.toml
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ tokio-rustls = { version = "0.26", default-features = false, features = [
     "ring",
 ] }
 tokio-stream = { version = "0.1.15" }
-tokio-tungstenite = "0.24"
+tokio-tungstenite = "0.21" # avoid duplicating this dependency as long as tokio-tungstenite-wasm isn't updated
 tokio-tungstenite-wasm = "0.3"
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7", features = ["io-util", "io", "codec", "rt"] }
 tracing = "0.1"