diff --git a/cli/src/template/cargo_toml b/cli/src/template/cargo_toml
index a71639c..2c0f7e3 100644
--- a/cli/src/template/cargo_toml
+++ b/cli/src/template/cargo_toml
@@ -17,5 +17,5 @@ keywords = ["solana"]
 bytemuck = "1.14"
 num_enum = "0.7"
 solana-program = "2.1"
-steel = "3.0"
+steel = "4.0"
 thiserror = "1.0"