diff --git a/account/build.gradle b/account/build.gradle
index 1005f58dbf..229ecc7c8f 100644
--- a/account/build.gradle
+++ b/account/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/application/build.gradle b/application/build.gradle
index 8d8529d62c..54abcf1949 100644
--- a/application/build.gradle
+++ b/application/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 26aa1e4a8e..f5392cf551 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -15,14 +15,7 @@ repositories {
 apply from: 'buildSrc/bisq-version.gradle'
 apply from: 'buildSrc/os-arch.gradle'
 
-dependencies {
-}
-
 test {
     useJUnitPlatform()
     exclude '**/**Integration*'
-}
-
-ext {
-    i2pVersion = '1.7.0'
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/buildSrc/build.gradle b/buildSrc/build.gradle
index 139dcb2423..1ef5f408f4 100644
--- a/buildSrc/build.gradle
+++ b/buildSrc/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id "org.gradle.kotlin.kotlin-dsl" version "2.1.7"
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
     id 'signing'
     id 'maven-publish'
 }
diff --git a/buildSrc/settings.gradle b/buildSrc/settings.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7018d7b43a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buildSrc/settings.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+dependencyResolutionManagement {
+    versionCatalogs {
+        libs {
+            from(files("../gradle/libs.versions.toml"))
+        }
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/cli/build.gradle b/cli/build.gradle
index af30cfe9f8..2d0ffd9ed4 100644
--- a/cli/build.gradle
+++ b/cli/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/common/build.gradle b/common/build.gradle
index 3d878d4449..e96ddbdb93 100644
--- a/common/build.gradle
+++ b/common/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/contract/build.gradle b/contract/build.gradle
index 815e629577..5e9eaca3fd 100644
--- a/contract/build.gradle
+++ b/contract/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/desktop/build.gradle b/desktop/build.gradle
index 4f82da410a..ec3a9a0253 100644
--- a/desktop/build.gradle
+++ b/desktop/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
     id 'application'
     id 'distribution'
     id 'org.openjfx.javafxplugin' version '0.0.10'
diff --git a/docs/dev-update-gradle.md b/docs/dev-update-gradle.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1a25ee8bbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/dev-update-gradle.md
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+### How to update the Gradle Wrapper
+
+The wrapper can update itself using:
+
+```
+./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version 7.4.1 \
+    --distribution-type all \
+    --gradle-distribution-sha256-sum a9a7b7baba105f6557c9dcf9c3c6e8f7e57e6b49889c5f1d133f015d0727e4be
+```
+
+- `--gradle-version`: the version you wish to update to
+- `--distribution-type`: `bin` or `all`. Use the `all` distribution to provide the sources needed for the IDE for 
+code-completion and the ability to navigate the Gradle source code.
+- `--gradle-distribution-sha256-sum`: the checksum for the chosen distribution from https://gradle.org/release-checksums/
diff --git a/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e5213a3d88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Version Catalogs documentation: https://docs.gradle.org/7.4.1/userguide/platforms.html
+
+[versions]
+i2p = '1.7.0'
+protobuf = '0.8.18'
+
+[libraries]
+i2p-streaming = { module = 'net.i2p.client:streaming', version.ref = 'i2p' }
+i2p-core = { module = 'net.i2p:i2p', version.ref = 'i2p' }
+i2p-router = { module = 'net.i2p:router', version.ref = 'i2p' }
+
+[bundles]
+i2p = ['i2p-core', 'i2p-router', 'i2p-streaming']
+
+[plugins]
+protobuf = { id = 'com.google.protobuf', version.ref = 'protobuf' }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index e708b1c023..41d9927a4d 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 59250647c4..db3bccc1f9 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionSha256Sum=b586e04868a22fd817c8971330fec37e298f3242eb85c374181b12d637f80302
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.3.3-bin.zip
+distributionSha256Sum=a9a7b7baba105f6557c9dcf9c3c6e8f7e57e6b49889c5f1d133f015d0727e4be
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.4.1-all.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index 4f906e0c81..1b6c787337 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env sh
+#!/bin/sh
 
 #
-# Copyright 2015 the original author or authors.
+# Copyright © 2015-2021 the original authors.
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -17,67 +17,101 @@
 #
 
 ##############################################################################
-##
-##  Gradle start up script for UN*X
-##
+#
+#   Gradle start up script for POSIX generated by Gradle.
+#
+#   Important for running:
+#
+#   (1) You need a POSIX-compliant shell to run this script. If your /bin/sh is
+#       noncompliant, but you have some other compliant shell such as ksh or
+#       bash, then to run this script, type that shell name before the whole
+#       command line, like:
+#
+#           ksh Gradle
+#
+#       Busybox and similar reduced shells will NOT work, because this script
+#       requires all of these POSIX shell features:
+#         * functions;
+#         * expansions «$var», «${var}», «${var:-default}», «${var+SET}»,
+#           «${var#prefix}», «${var%suffix}», and «$( cmd )»;
+#         * compound commands having a testable exit status, especially «case»;
+#         * various built-in commands including «command», «set», and «ulimit».
+#
+#   Important for patching:
+#
+#   (2) This script targets any POSIX shell, so it avoids extensions provided
+#       by Bash, Ksh, etc; in particular arrays are avoided.
+#
+#       The "traditional" practice of packing multiple parameters into a
+#       space-separated string is a well documented source of bugs and security
+#       problems, so this is (mostly) avoided, by progressively accumulating
+#       options in "$@", and eventually passing that to Java.
+#
+#       Where the inherited environment variables (DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS,
+#       and GRADLE_OPTS) rely on word-splitting, this is performed explicitly;
+#       see the in-line comments for details.
+#
+#       There are tweaks for specific operating systems such as AIX, CygWin,
+#       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
+#
+#   (3) This script is generated from the Groovy template
+#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
+#       within the Gradle project.
+#
+#       You can find Gradle at https://github.com/gradle/gradle/.
+#
 ##############################################################################
 
 # Attempt to set APP_HOME
+
 # Resolve links: $0 may be a link
-PRG="$0"
-# Need this for relative symlinks.
-while [ -h "$PRG" ] ; do
-    ls=`ls -ld "$PRG"`
-    link=`expr "$ls" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
-    if expr "$link" : '/.*' > /dev/null; then
-        PRG="$link"
-    else
-        PRG=`dirname "$PRG"`"/$link"
-    fi
+app_path=$0
+
+# Need this for daisy-chained symlinks.
+while
+    APP_HOME=${app_path%"${app_path##*/}"}  # leaves a trailing /; empty if no leading path
+    [ -h "$app_path" ]
+do
+    ls=$( ls -ld "$app_path" )
+    link=${ls#*' -> '}
+    case $link in             #(
+      /*)   app_path=$link ;; #(
+      *)    app_path=$APP_HOME$link ;;
+    esac
 done
-SAVED="`pwd`"
-cd "`dirname \"$PRG\"`/" >/dev/null
-APP_HOME="`pwd -P`"
-cd "$SAVED" >/dev/null
+
+APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
 
 APP_NAME="Gradle"
-APP_BASE_NAME=`basename "$0"`
+APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
 
 # Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
 DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
 
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
-MAX_FD="maximum"
+MAX_FD=maximum
 
 warn () {
     echo "$*"
-}
+} >&2
 
 die () {
     echo
     echo "$*"
     echo
     exit 1
-}
+} >&2
 
 # OS specific support (must be 'true' or 'false').
 cygwin=false
 msys=false
 darwin=false
 nonstop=false
-case "`uname`" in
-  CYGWIN* )
-    cygwin=true
-    ;;
-  Darwin* )
-    darwin=true
-    ;;
-  MINGW* )
-    msys=true
-    ;;
-  NONSTOP* )
-    nonstop=true
-    ;;
+case "$( uname )" in                #(
+  CYGWIN* )         cygwin=true  ;; #(
+  Darwin* )         darwin=true  ;; #(
+  MSYS* | MINGW* )  msys=true    ;; #(
+  NONSTOP* )        nonstop=true ;;
 esac
 
 CLASSPATH=$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
@@ -87,9 +121,9 @@ CLASSPATH=$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
 if [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] ; then
     if [ -x "$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java" ] ; then
         # IBM's JDK on AIX uses strange locations for the executables
-        JAVACMD="$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java"
+        JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java
     else
-        JAVACMD="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"
+        JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java
     fi
     if [ ! -x "$JAVACMD" ] ; then
         die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: $JAVA_HOME
@@ -98,7 +132,7 @@ Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
 location of your Java installation."
     fi
 else
-    JAVACMD="java"
+    JAVACMD=java
     which java >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
 
 Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
@@ -106,80 +140,95 @@ location of your Java installation."
 fi
 
 # Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
-if [ "$cygwin" = "false" -a "$darwin" = "false" -a "$nonstop" = "false" ] ; then
-    MAX_FD_LIMIT=`ulimit -H -n`
-    if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
-        if [ "$MAX_FD" = "maximum" -o "$MAX_FD" = "max" ] ; then
-            MAX_FD="$MAX_FD_LIMIT"
-        fi
-        ulimit -n $MAX_FD
-        if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
-            warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit: $MAX_FD"
-        fi
-    else
-        warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit: $MAX_FD_LIMIT"
-    fi
+if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
+    case $MAX_FD in #(
+      max*)
+        MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
+            warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
+    esac
+    case $MAX_FD in  #(
+      '' | soft) :;; #(
+      *)
+        ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
+            warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
+    esac
 fi
 
-# For Darwin, add options to specify how the application appears in the dock
-if $darwin; then
-    GRADLE_OPTS="$GRADLE_OPTS \"-Xdock:name=$APP_NAME\" \"-Xdock:icon=$APP_HOME/media/gradle.icns\""
-fi
+# Collect all arguments for the java command, stacking in reverse order:
+#   * args from the command line
+#   * the main class name
+#   * -classpath
+#   * -D...appname settings
+#   * --module-path (only if needed)
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and GRADLE_OPTS environment variables.
 
 # For Cygwin or MSYS, switch paths to Windows format before running java
-if [ "$cygwin" = "true" -o "$msys" = "true" ] ; then
-    APP_HOME=`cygpath --path --mixed "$APP_HOME"`
-    CLASSPATH=`cygpath --path --mixed "$CLASSPATH"`
-
-    JAVACMD=`cygpath --unix "$JAVACMD"`
-
-    # We build the pattern for arguments to be converted via cygpath
-    ROOTDIRSRAW=`find -L / -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d 2>/dev/null`
-    SEP=""
-    for dir in $ROOTDIRSRAW ; do
-        ROOTDIRS="$ROOTDIRS$SEP$dir"
-        SEP="|"
-    done
-    OURCYGPATTERN="(^($ROOTDIRS))"
-    # Add a user-defined pattern to the cygpath arguments
-    if [ "$GRADLE_CYGPATTERN" != "" ] ; then
-        OURCYGPATTERN="$OURCYGPATTERN|($GRADLE_CYGPATTERN)"
-    fi
+if "$cygwin" || "$msys" ; then
+    APP_HOME=$( cygpath --path --mixed "$APP_HOME" )
+    CLASSPATH=$( cygpath --path --mixed "$CLASSPATH" )
+
+    JAVACMD=$( cygpath --unix "$JAVACMD" )
+
     # Now convert the arguments - kludge to limit ourselves to /bin/sh
-    i=0
-    for arg in "$@" ; do
-        CHECK=`echo "$arg"|egrep -c "$OURCYGPATTERN" -`
-        CHECK2=`echo "$arg"|egrep -c "^-"`                                 ### Determine if an option
-
-        if [ $CHECK -ne 0 ] && [ $CHECK2 -eq 0 ] ; then                    ### Added a condition
-            eval `echo args$i`=`cygpath --path --ignore --mixed "$arg"`
-        else
-            eval `echo args$i`="\"$arg\""
+    for arg do
+        if
+            case $arg in                                #(
+              -*)   false ;;                            # don't mess with options #(
+              /?*)  t=${arg#/} t=/${t%%/*}              # looks like a POSIX filepath
+                    [ -e "$t" ] ;;                      #(
+              *)    false ;;
+            esac
+        then
+            arg=$( cygpath --path --ignore --mixed "$arg" )
         fi
-        i=`expr $i + 1`
+        # Roll the args list around exactly as many times as the number of
+        # args, so each arg winds up back in the position where it started, but
+        # possibly modified.
+        #
+        # NB: a `for` loop captures its iteration list before it begins, so
+        # changing the positional parameters here affects neither the number of
+        # iterations, nor the values presented in `arg`.
+        shift                   # remove old arg
+        set -- "$@" "$arg"      # push replacement arg
     done
-    case $i in
-        0) set -- ;;
-        1) set -- "$args0" ;;
-        2) set -- "$args0" "$args1" ;;
-        3) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" ;;
-        4) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" ;;
-        5) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" "$args4" ;;
-        6) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" "$args4" "$args5" ;;
-        7) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" "$args4" "$args5" "$args6" ;;
-        8) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" "$args4" "$args5" "$args6" "$args7" ;;
-        9) set -- "$args0" "$args1" "$args2" "$args3" "$args4" "$args5" "$args6" "$args7" "$args8" ;;
-    esac
 fi
 
-# Escape application args
-save () {
-    for i do printf %s\\n "$i" | sed "s/'/'\\\\''/g;1s/^/'/;\$s/\$/' \\\\/" ; done
-    echo " "
-}
-APP_ARGS=`save "$@"`
+# Collect all arguments for the java command;
+#   * $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, $JAVA_OPTS, and $GRADLE_OPTS can contain fragments of
+#     shell script including quotes and variable substitutions, so put them in
+#     double quotes to make sure that they get re-expanded; and
+#   * put everything else in single quotes, so that it's not re-expanded.
+
+set -- \
+        "-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME" \
+        -classpath "$CLASSPATH" \
+        org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain \
+        "$@"
+
+# Use "xargs" to parse quoted args.
+#
+# With -n1 it outputs one arg per line, with the quotes and backslashes removed.
+#
+# In Bash we could simply go:
+#
+#   readarray ARGS < <( xargs -n1 <<<"$var" ) &&
+#   set -- "${ARGS[@]}" "$@"
+#
+# but POSIX shell has neither arrays nor command substitution, so instead we
+# post-process each arg (as a line of input to sed) to backslash-escape any
+# character that might be a shell metacharacter, then use eval to reverse
+# that process (while maintaining the separation between arguments), and wrap
+# the whole thing up as a single "set" statement.
+#
+# This will of course break if any of these variables contains a newline or
+# an unmatched quote.
+#
 
-# Collect all arguments for the java command, following the shell quoting and substitution rules
-eval set -- $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS $JAVA_OPTS $GRADLE_OPTS "\"-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME\"" -classpath "\"$CLASSPATH\"" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain "$APP_ARGS"
+eval "set -- $(
+        printf '%s\n' "$DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS $JAVA_OPTS $GRADLE_OPTS" |
+        xargs -n1 |
+        sed ' s~[^-[:alnum:]+,./:=@_]~\\&~g; ' |
+        tr '\n' ' '
+    )" '"$@"'
 
 exec "$JAVACMD" "$@"
diff --git a/grpc/build.gradle b/grpc/build.gradle
index 36d927bae4..e7c2df50d1 100644
--- a/grpc/build.gradle
+++ b/grpc/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/i18n/build.gradle b/i18n/build.gradle
index cca124ce38..845adf3194 100644
--- a/i18n/build.gradle
+++ b/i18n/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/i2p/build.gradle b/i2p/build.gradle
index 778cc38485..95dd13120a 100644
--- a/i2p/build.gradle
+++ b/i2p/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
@@ -26,9 +26,7 @@ dependencies {
         exclude group: 'org.apache.httpcomponents', module: 'httpclient'
     }
 
-    implementation "net.i2p.client:streaming:${i2pVersion}"
-    implementation "net.i2p:i2p:${i2pVersion}"
-    implementation "net.i2p:router:${i2pVersion}"
+    implementation libs.bundles.i2p
 }
 
 test {
diff --git a/identity/build.gradle b/identity/build.gradle
index b462207106..6efbf373d3 100644
--- a/identity/build.gradle
+++ b/identity/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/network/build.gradle b/network/build.gradle
index 87e7ba23b5..1ad219217b 100644
--- a/network/build.gradle
+++ b/network/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/offer/build.gradle b/offer/build.gradle
index b1c641ebe0..6d9411a9c6 100644
--- a/offer/build.gradle
+++ b/offer/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/oracle/build.gradle b/oracle/build.gradle
index 7a29c69246..70ac0804e0 100644
--- a/oracle/build.gradle
+++ b/oracle/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/persistence/build.gradle b/persistence/build.gradle
index 24382fe003..af23b23e2b 100644
--- a/persistence/build.gradle
+++ b/persistence/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/presentation/build.gradle b/presentation/build.gradle
index f1026984c4..d609e43d64 100644
--- a/presentation/build.gradle
+++ b/presentation/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/protocol/build.gradle b/protocol/build.gradle
index 0d88d02845..07eca1a2dd 100644
--- a/protocol/build.gradle
+++ b/protocol/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/security/build.gradle b/security/build.gradle
index 1f54f04573..a7326dd53c 100644
--- a/security/build.gradle
+++ b/security/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/settings.gradle b/settings.gradle
index 9a07c116f5..842910f426 100644
--- a/settings.gradle
+++ b/settings.gradle
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ include 'web'
 
 import org.gradle.util.GradleVersion
 
-def minGradleVersion = GradleVersion.version("7.3.3")
+def minGradleVersion = GradleVersion.version("7.4.1")
 def minJavaVersion = JavaVersion.VERSION_16
 if (GradleVersion.current() >= minGradleVersion && JavaVersion.current().isCompatibleWith(minJavaVersion)) {
     println "Building ${rootProject.name} module with ${GradleVersion.current()} and Java ${JavaVersion.current()}."
diff --git a/settings/build.gradle b/settings/build.gradle
index 6fef4bf309..924995c3b9 100644
--- a/settings/build.gradle
+++ b/settings/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/social/build.gradle b/social/build.gradle
index 77aa0823e3..a808b1d18d 100644
--- a/social/build.gradle
+++ b/social/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/support/build.gradle b/support/build.gradle
index 0bc5ac54d5..ff39834a31 100644
--- a/support/build.gradle
+++ b/support/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/wallets/build.gradle b/wallets/build.gradle
index af9d0cc95a..c3282063ae 100644
--- a/wallets/build.gradle
+++ b/wallets/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'com.google.protobuf' version '0.8.18'
+    alias(libs.plugins.protobuf)
 }
 
 repositories {