diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
index e1727dcd1..30e464d0f 100644
--- a/.cirrus.yml
+++ b/.cirrus.yml
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ task:
     - export ELECTRUM_ECC_DONT_COMPILE=1  # we build manually to make caching it easier
     - python3 -m pip install .[tests]
     # install e-x some commits after 1.17.0 tag
-    - python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx.git@c25f1b208e3097fba5b090a314062d29b7a13f8a
+    - python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx.git@fc9f4508499f237113d680f941238514553ec82a
     - "BITCOIND_VERSION=$(curl https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/ | grep -E -i --only-matching 'Latest version: [0-9\\.]+' | grep -E --only-matching '[0-9\\.]+')"
     - BITCOIND_FILENAME=bitcoin-$BITCOIND_VERSION-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
     - BITCOIND_PATH=/tmp/bitcoind/$BITCOIND_FILENAME