diff --git a/powervoting-backend/go.mod b/powervoting-backend/go.mod
index 03b0b287..f5e7c1e8 100644
--- a/powervoting-backend/go.mod
+++ b/powervoting-backend/go.mod
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ require (
 	github.com/drand/tlock v1.1.1
 	github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum v1.14.3
 	github.com/gin-gonic/gin v1.9.1
+	github.com/ipfs/go-cid v0.4.1
+	github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime v0.21.0
+	github.com/multiformats/go-multihash v0.2.3
 	github.com/robfig/cron/v3 v3.0.1
 	github.com/shopspring/decimal v1.4.0
 	github.com/spf13/viper v1.16.0
@@ -67,7 +70,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/ipfs/bbloom v0.0.4 // indirect
 	github.com/ipfs/go-block-format v0.2.0 // indirect
 	github.com/ipfs/go-blockservice v0.5.2 // indirect
-	github.com/ipfs/go-cid v0.4.1 // indirect
 	github.com/ipfs/go-datastore v0.6.0 // indirect
 	github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs-blockstore v1.3.1 // indirect
 	github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs-ds-help v1.1.1 // indirect
@@ -83,7 +85,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/ipfs/go-verifcid v0.0.3 // indirect
 	github.com/ipld/go-car v0.6.2 // indirect
 	github.com/ipld/go-codec-dagpb v1.6.0 // indirect
-	github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime v0.21.0 // indirect
 	github.com/jbenet/goprocess v0.1.4 // indirect
 	github.com/jinzhu/inflection v1.0.0 // indirect
 	github.com/jinzhu/now v1.1.5 // indirect
@@ -102,7 +103,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/multiformats/go-base32 v0.1.0 // indirect
 	github.com/multiformats/go-base36 v0.2.0 // indirect
 	github.com/multiformats/go-multibase v0.2.0 // indirect
-	github.com/multiformats/go-multihash v0.2.3 // indirect
 	github.com/multiformats/go-varint v0.0.7 // indirect
 	github.com/nikkolasg/hexjson v0.1.0 // indirect
 	github.com/opentracing/opentracing-go v1.2.0 // indirect
@@ -133,12 +133,12 @@ require (
 	go.uber.org/atomic v1.11.0 // indirect
 	go.uber.org/multierr v1.11.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/arch v0.5.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/crypto v0.28.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/crypto v0.31.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/mod v0.17.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/net v0.25.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/sync v0.8.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/sys v0.26.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/text v0.19.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/sync v0.10.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/sys v0.28.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/text v0.21.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/tools v0.21.1-0.20240508182429-e35e4ccd0d2d // indirect
 	golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20240903120638-7835f813f4da // indirect
 	google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc v0.0.0-20240116215550-a9fa1716bcac // indirect