diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6aab9e6..4ec827c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "memchr"
-version = "2.3.4"
+version = "2.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0ee1c47aaa256ecabcaea351eae4a9b01ef39ed810004e298d2511ed284b1525"
+checksum = "2dffe52ecf27772e601905b7522cb4ef790d2cc203488bbd0e2fe85fcb74566d"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "minimal-lexical"
@@ -209,6 +209,12 @@ version = "1.0.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c4f5b37a154999a8f3f98cc23a628d850e154479cd94decf3414696e12e31aaf"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-width"
+version = "0.1.10"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c0edd1e5b14653f783770bce4a4dabb4a5108a5370a5f5d8cfe8710c361f6c8b"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "variant_count"
 version = "1.1.0"
@@ -219,6 +225,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "wasm-encoder"
+version = "0.23.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1c3e4bc09095436c8e7584d86d33e6c3ee67045af8fb262cbb9cc321de553428"
+dependencies = [
+ "leb128",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "wasmer-interface-types-fl"
 version = "0.25.0"
@@ -240,9 +255,12 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "wast"
-version = "8.0.0"
+version = "53.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3f9df3d716118a503b2f6bbb6ff46b21997ab0cc167b01de7a188e45e4b01e8d"
+checksum = "8244fa24196b1d8fd3ca4a96a3a164c40f846498c5deab6caf414c67340ca4af"
 dependencies = [
  "leb128",
+ "memchr",
+ "unicode-width",
+ "wasm-encoder",
 ]
diff --git a/crates/it-types/Cargo.toml b/crates/it-types/Cargo.toml
index 7d80e1b..0bfd9b3 100644
--- a/crates/it-types/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/it-types/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ it-to-bytes = { path = "../to-bytes/", version = "0.1.0" }
 serde = { version = "1.0.152", features = ["derive", "rc"]}
 
 nom = { version = "7.1", optional = true }
-wast = { version = "8.0", optional = true }
+wast = { version = "53.0", optional = true }
 
 variant_count = "1.1"
 
diff --git a/wasmer-it/Cargo.toml b/wasmer-it/Cargo.toml
index 496edcd..b3c1af9 100644
--- a/wasmer-it/Cargo.toml
+++ b/wasmer-it/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ it-lilo = { path = "../crates/it-lilo", version = "0.4.2" }
 it-memory-traits = { path = "../crates/it-memory-traits", version = "0.3.2" }
 
 nom = "7.1"
-wast = "8.0"
+wast = "53.0"
 
 # `serde` is useful only to simplify the users' life. It is not
 # required by WIT itself, is is used to cross the boundary between the