diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yaml b/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yaml
index 84dd645..6f38fc7 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yaml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yaml
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ env:
   CHAIN: mainnet
   # Pinned; bump deliberately to upgrade. An unattended upgrade of a validator
   # is how you find out at 3am that a release changed a consensus rule.
-  NODE_VERSION: "0.11.1"
+  NODE_VERSION: "1.0.1"
   # Mainnet launch (2026-09-10 09:09 UTC): the chain spec is published as a
   # file before a binary embeds it, so the node can run from a JSON at
   # /etc/quantus-node/chainspec.json instead of a built-in name. When set, the