diff --git a/acceptance-tests/tests/build.gradle b/acceptance-tests/tests/build.gradle
index 74f4a1164a8..3fca1695dec 100644
--- a/acceptance-tests/tests/build.gradle
+++ b/acceptance-tests/tests/build.gradle
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
  */
 
 plugins {
-  id 'org.web3j' version '4.11.1'
+  id 'org.web3j' version '4.11.3'
   id 'org.web3j.solidity' version '0.4.1'
 }
 
diff --git a/gradle/verification-metadata.xml b/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
index ae74ca8e816..91dccd51cdd 100644
--- a/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
+++ b/gradle/verification-metadata.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<verification-metadata xmlns="https://schema.gradle.org/dependency-verification" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="https://schema.gradle.org/dependency-verification https://schema.gradle.org/dependency-verification/dependency-verification-1.1.xsd">
+<verification-metadata xmlns="https://schema.gradle.org/dependency-verification" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="https://schema.gradle.org/dependency-verification https://schema.gradle.org/dependency-verification/dependency-verification-1.3.xsd">
    <configuration>
       <verify-metadata>true</verify-metadata>
       <verify-signatures>false</verify-signatures>
@@ -6711,6 +6711,14 @@
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          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="org.web3j" name="abi" version="4.11.3">
+         <artifact name="abi-4.11.3.jar">
+            <sha256 value="75d38eaaee59a15c8d214558773e26434dce762a20bbe39509dbd1de060056d8" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+         <artifact name="abi-4.11.3.module">
+            <sha256 value="2741e515b00b70f4fdb34cc5b6a14e00fe910dcdc499d83e62a1c73451273a8f" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="org.web3j" name="besu" version="4.11.1">
          <artifact name="besu-4.11.1.jar">
             <sha256 value="8eacd74876424b43217b0960ac5eb8c7ade08c9db87ed0e397db4dc343d5905e" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
@@ -6730,6 +6738,14 @@
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          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="org.web3j" name="codegen" version="4.11.3">
+         <artifact name="codegen-4.11.3.jar">
+            <sha256 value="405c75be4512e0cfee6ecc2f6f6dcd81cca4150d54ac327adcacc7548859dcad" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+         <artifact name="codegen-4.11.3.module">
+            <sha256 value="aad7c74e8152c70ce82919c04d8150183c9d1ee9f71494ad6c8fc002ecac0d6e" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="org.web3j" name="core" version="4.11.1">
          <artifact name="core-4.11.1.jar">
             <sha256 value="ed1ce6473363c9cf12a4348b25f82a5f483008554c1b4b1d08927d00418b46ad" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
@@ -6741,6 +6757,17 @@
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          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="org.web3j" name="core" version="4.11.3">
+         <artifact name="core-4.11.3.jar">
+            <sha256 value="bfb9fa4b9e3b2cf00ab7ffcddae8f49c03f688c17cbb1ae244938a77df89cf69" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+         <artifact name="core-4.11.3.module">
+            <sha256 value="cb1fe9e0c07512b073b8622b55fa4d5788c7a9e3cd641ddc8b0031d813188d6a" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+         <artifact name="core-4.11.3.pom">
+            <sha256 value="26355b7e2b607ce39b7e760a54752af532299d36476fccdb477f783d28b3e012" origin="Manually calculated"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="org.web3j" name="crypto" version="4.11.1">
          <artifact name="crypto-4.11.1.jar">
             <sha256 value="a9a1dfaf939f3edbc54e4bdfdac1c01ef348e030931693e80588a759d736d34d" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
@@ -6752,6 +6779,14 @@
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          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="org.web3j" name="crypto" version="4.11.3">
+         <artifact name="crypto-4.11.3.jar">
+            <sha256 value="56d1a73e4c86b1761197c47ee454c0ef21277a724326cc82b880362afd6ec649" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+         <artifact name="crypto-4.11.3.module">
+            <sha256 value="b523302e3162b2b684c23e8be2e4dc01bfda02daafe076580e82f276658cf321" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="org.web3j" name="eea" version="4.11.1">
          <artifact name="eea-4.11.1.jar">
             <sha256 value="225ba6fec472713b3a244f000e0f546ac91cded024e15100fdceae1ef1e6302c" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
@@ -6768,6 +6803,11 @@
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          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="org.web3j" name="org.web3j.gradle.plugin" version="4.11.3">
+         <artifact name="org.web3j.gradle.plugin-4.11.3.pom">
+            <sha256 value="a065f1d06d08b17f47b36477c81d648fcdd3c0f0d90c83165d5651519fcf2f00" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="org.web3j" name="rlp" version="4.11.1">
          <artifact name="rlp-4.11.1.jar">
             <sha256 value="e593c5db565ca15b91b9fab32bdf11146473f84f71ef51d5e41b8df907db613b" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
@@ -6779,6 +6819,14 @@
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          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="org.web3j" name="rlp" version="4.11.3">
+         <artifact name="rlp-4.11.3.jar">
+            <sha256 value="aaf641af237b46811e9738c93fb6fb8102050c535673c91f5b59c5f840f04b29" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+         <artifact name="rlp-4.11.3.module">
+            <sha256 value="91a596e4f435c2376c302099292245ddc2a118e2844854f4d3c3d774e5bdb0c5" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="org.web3j" name="tuples" version="4.11.1">
          <artifact name="tuples-4.11.1.jar">
             <sha256 value="6bee10ad2ffe1a8cf9d44eabec8fa8ec43cff667de9cc394c37d239823c714cf" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
@@ -6790,6 +6838,17 @@
             <sha256 value="802662432f85fc7bbb40270a5ac93b998f524554fd085907b1b7cf94b231354c" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="org.web3j" name="tuples" version="4.11.3">
+         <artifact name="tuples-4.11.3.jar">
+            <sha256 value="76bc028e5f57fc92dbf4b971300efd10b32b0b903cf3ccc797a5e62c72bee949" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+         <artifact name="tuples-4.11.3.module">
+            <sha256 value="9670d5a4e06ed4052ca5b1d4c8f0032c1fd5f7606cfb957e72e124525023b181" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+         <artifact name="tuples-4.11.3.pom">
+            <sha256 value="cd6bd89a0ea18317caa9bcb29f0e9a6cdb86a39a6eab13732a90c8a5fc26cb06" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="org.web3j" name="utils" version="4.11.1">
          <artifact name="utils-4.11.1.jar">
             <sha256 value="25021db422200ed6e8f7322c02fa1dba5351969ae0e280f069df05d0975b7cde" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
@@ -6801,6 +6860,14 @@
             <sha256 value="ad937074428d53ee55dd6676bb48021f354f49e61b40f1f8ab88c0e79e5eb774" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="org.web3j" name="utils" version="4.11.3">
+         <artifact name="utils-4.11.3.jar">
+            <sha256 value="cad81abe5db663f6832a3dde093a545864c39be5a17f22794e61583ff7da4948" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+         <artifact name="utils-4.11.3.module">
+            <sha256 value="3e1d9b495dfbc407d0a9b22e7e46953b97d7d71b235409b9cb96531e0b3eb891" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="org.web3j" name="web3j-gradle-plugin" version="4.11.1">
          <artifact name="web3j-gradle-plugin-4.11.1.jar">
             <sha256 value="2a856dbf0350083e8a38eb37cbee8377d4f353a0f5ee64d441593d91637caaa3" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
@@ -6809,6 +6876,14 @@
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          </artifact>
       </component>
+      <component group="org.web3j" name="web3j-gradle-plugin" version="4.11.3">
+         <artifact name="web3j-gradle-plugin-4.11.3.jar">
+            <sha256 value="0d5854f24b1e49e7e3bcead0a5e04d762a2b68fd2a5240414df014d82779fb9e" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+         <artifact name="web3j-gradle-plugin-4.11.3.module">
+            <sha256 value="2cae6602ee458be8c6d5eb0f474a7069523e3b273c9abe77523041887504e064" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
+         </artifact>
+      </component>
       <component group="org.web3j" name="web3j-sokt" version="0.2.4">
          <artifact name="web3j-sokt-0.2.4.jar">
             <sha256 value="45b96e0a5e3dd3fc02bb2e6d9183f825dd31cbb853f120a06b284fd3966db080" origin="Generated by Gradle"/>
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 943f0cbfa75..afba109285a 100644
Binary files a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index c7d437bbb47..20db9ad5c95 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.6.4-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.7-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists