diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
index 30e464d0f..ed140e6b6 100644
--- a/.cirrus.yml
+++ b/.cirrus.yml
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ task:
     # install electrum
     - 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@fc9f4508499f237113d680f941238514553ec82a
+    # install e-x some commits after 1.18.0 tag
+    - python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx.git@0b260d4345242cc41e316e97d7de10ae472fd172
     - "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