diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 59939b8ddc903..f040c228604f5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1140,16 +1140,27 @@ version = "0.3.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "fea41bba32d969b513997752735605054bc0dfa92b4c56bf1189f2e174be7a10"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ed25519"
+version = "1.0.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bf038a7b6fd7ef78ad3348b63f3a17550877b0e28f8d68bcc94894d1412158bc"
+dependencies = [
+ "signature",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ed25519-dalek"
-version = "1.0.0-pre.3"
+version = "1.0.0-pre.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "978710b352437433c97b2bff193f2fb1dfd58a093f863dd95e225a19baa599a2"
+checksum = "21a8a37f4e8b35af971e6db5e3897e7a6344caa3f92f6544f88125a1f5f0035a"
 dependencies = [
- "clear_on_drop",
  "curve25519-dalek",
+ "ed25519",
  "rand 0.7.3",
+ "serde",
  "sha2",
+ "zeroize",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2759,9 +2770,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "libp2p-core"
-version = "0.20.0"
+version = "0.20.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "11ca8d5a64a5d19b45e00e8f24afda6b8e1b605fb25ad7bcf62a42ecf19d7ff3"
+checksum = "6a694fd76d7c33a45a0e6e1525e9b9b5d11127c9c94e560ac0f8abba54ed80af"
 dependencies = [
  "asn1_der",
  "bs58",
@@ -7325,6 +7336,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "signature"
+version = "1.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "65211b7b6fc3f14ff9fc7a2011a434e3e6880585bd2e9e9396315ae24cbf7852"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "slab"
 version = "0.4.2"
diff --git a/primitives/core/Cargo.toml b/primitives/core/Cargo.toml
index 9b9a8b270e0b2..a43ca8bb6db05 100644
--- a/primitives/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/primitives/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ parity-util-mem = { version = "0.7.0", default-features = false, features = ["pr
 futures = { version = "0.3.1", optional = true }
 
 # full crypto
-ed25519-dalek = { version = "1.0.0-pre.3", default-features = false, features = ["u64_backend", "alloc"], optional = true }
+ed25519-dalek = { version = "1.0.0-pre.4", default-features = false, features = ["u64_backend", "alloc"], optional = true }
 blake2-rfc = { version = "0.2.18", default-features = false, optional = true }
 tiny-keccak = { version = "2.0.1", features = ["keccak"], optional = true }
 schnorrkel = { version = "0.9.1", features = ["preaudit_deprecated", "u64_backend"], default-features = false, optional = true }
diff --git a/primitives/core/src/ed25519.rs b/primitives/core/src/ed25519.rs
index f6e7227013728..fcc84c5c2edcf 100644
--- a/primitives/core/src/ed25519.rs
+++ b/primitives/core/src/ed25519.rs
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ use codec::{Encode, Decode};
 use blake2_rfc;
 #[cfg(feature = "full_crypto")]
 use core::convert::TryFrom;
+#[cfg(feature = "full_crypto")]
+use ed25519_dalek::{Signer as _, Verifier as _};
 #[cfg(feature = "std")]
 use substrate_bip39::seed_from_entropy;
 #[cfg(feature = "std")]
@@ -513,7 +515,7 @@ impl TraitPair for Pair {
 			Err(_) => return false,
 		};
 
-		let sig = match ed25519_dalek::Signature::from_bytes(sig) {
+		let sig = match ed25519_dalek::Signature::try_from(sig) {
 			Ok(s) => s,
 			Err(_) => return false
 		};