diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index af26dfe..450d5d8 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -532,11 +532,12 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "dashmap"
-version = "5.5.3"
+version = "6.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "978747c1d849a7d2ee5e8adc0159961c48fb7e5db2f06af6723b80123bb53856"
+checksum = "5041cc499144891f3790297212f32a74fb938e5136a14943f338ef9e0ae276cf"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
+ "crossbeam-utils",
  "hashbrown 0.14.5",
  "lock_api",
  "once_cell",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index fc2fa94..c61d22e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["json","stre
 
 # Rate limiting / Redis
 redis = { version = "0.32", features = ["tokio-comp","aio","connection-manager"] }
-dashmap = "5"
+dashmap = "6"
 
 # Database (added for persistence phase groundwork)
 sqlx = { version = "0.8", features = ["runtime-tokio-rustls","postgres","uuid","chrono","macros"] }