diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5c3894f..3c37434 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -85,9 +85,18 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arc-swap"
-version = "1.7.1"
+version = "1.8.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "69f7f8c3906b62b754cd5326047894316021dcfe5a194c8ea52bdd94934a3457"
+checksum = "f9f3647c145568cec02c42054e07bdf9a5a698e15b466fb2341bfc393cd24aa5"
+dependencies = [
+ "rustversion",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "arcstr"
+version = "1.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "03918c3dbd7701a85c6b9887732e2921175f26c350b4563841d0958c21d57e6d"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "argon2"
@@ -1874,11 +1883,12 @@ checksum = "0c8d0fd677905edcbeedbf2edb6494d676f0e98d54d5cf9bda0b061cb8fb8aba"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "redis"
-version = "0.32.7"
+version = "1.0.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "014cc767fefab6a3e798ca45112bccad9c6e0e218fbd49720042716c73cfef44"
+checksum = "b36964393906eb775b89b25b05b7b95685b8dd14062f1663a31ff93e75c452e5"
 dependencies = [
  "arc-swap",
+ "arcstr",
  "backon",
  "bytes",
  "cfg-if",
@@ -1895,6 +1905,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
  "tokio-util",
  "url",
+ "xxhash-rust",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3547,6 +3558,12 @@ version = "0.6.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ea2f10b9bb0928dfb1b42b65e1f9e36f7f54dbdf08457afefb38afcdec4fa2bb"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "xxhash-rust"
+version = "0.8.15"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "fdd20c5420375476fbd4394763288da7eb0cc0b8c11deed431a91562af7335d3"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "yaml-rust2"
 version = "0.10.4"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index adc92ba..3c7ee56 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ rand = "0.10"
 reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["json","stream","gzip","brotli","deflate","rustls-tls"] }
 
 # Rate limiting / Redis
-redis = { version = "0.32", features = ["tokio-comp","aio","connection-manager"] }
+redis = { version = "1.0", features = ["tokio-comp","aio","connection-manager"] }
 dashmap = "5"
 
 # Database (added for persistence phase groundwork)