diff --git a/.github/workflows/bench.yml b/.github/workflows/bench.yml
index cd9eb3eb3b..508a867d67 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/bench.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/bench.yml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jobs:
     outputs:
       needs-bench: ${{ steps.version-check.outputs.needs_bench }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: check-if-needed
     if: needs.check-if-needed.outputs.needs-bench == 1
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Inspect benchmark CI config
         run: |
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ jobs:
       resource_group: ${{ steps.get-env.outputs.resource_group }}
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Install azure-cli
         run: |
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ jobs:
     needs:
       - deploy-github-runner
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 10
           repository: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name }}
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ jobs:
     if: ${{ always() && needs.deploy-github-runner.result != 'skipped' }}
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Evaluate env vars
         id: get-env
diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-runtime-changes.yml b/.github/workflows/check-runtime-changes.yml
index 797fd386a7..0e9c186fe0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check-runtime-changes.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-runtime-changes.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ jobs:
   check-version:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
   danger-will-brick-the-blockchain:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 95b1d95afc..a18a32e02c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
   docker-build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Build docker image
         run: |
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ jobs:
   sanity-tests:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Check for parity between extrinsics, benchmarks and weights
         run: |
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ jobs:
   sanity-test-cli:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Install Node.js
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ jobs:
     name: cargo audit
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Set-Up
         run: |
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Rustfmt
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Configure rustc version
         run: |
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Clippy
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Set-Up
         run: |
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ jobs:
     # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
     steps:
       # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Set-Up
         run: |
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ jobs:
   unit-test-creditcoin:
     runs-on: macos-12
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Set-Up
         env:
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ jobs:
   unit-test-cli:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Install Node.js
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ jobs:
   build-creditcoin-node:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Set-Up
         run: |
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ jobs:
       - build-creditcoin-node
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Start local Ethereum node
         run: |
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ jobs:
     # checkov:skip=CKV2_GHA_1:We need this for creditcoin-js typedefs auto-commit
     permissions: write-all
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 10
           repository: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name }}
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ jobs:
           [creditcoin-js, integration-tests, scripts/js, scripts/cc-cli]
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Install Node.js
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ jobs:
           [creditcoin-js, integration-tests, scripts/js, scripts/cc-cli]
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Install Node.js
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ jobs:
           [creditcoin-js, integration-tests, scripts/js, scripts/cc-cli]
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Install Node.js
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ jobs:
   benchmark:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Inspect benchmark CI config
         run: |
@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ jobs:
     name: "🐚 Shellcheck"
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Run ShellCheck
         uses: ludeeus/action-shellcheck@2.0.0
         env:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
index 982efd8107..e5a0b41572 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
       - name: Initialize CodeQL
diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy-docs.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy-docs.yml
index 74c77ec440..e0612b2c0a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy-docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy-docs.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
     # checkov:skip=CKV2_GHA_1:We need this for the git push command below
     permissions: write-all
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
       - name: Install mdbook
diff --git a/.github/workflows/extrinsics.yml b/.github/workflows/extrinsics.yml
index d6b28b3f9c..de1ac3c34e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/extrinsics.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/extrinsics.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Extrinsics
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Install Node Dependencies
         uses: actions/setup-node@v3
         with:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/llvm-cov.yml b/.github/workflows/llvm-cov.yml
index a3e17d3462..a41ddef6e5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/llvm-cov.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/llvm-cov.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
     permissions:
       pull-requests: write
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Set-Up
         run: |
diff --git a/.github/workflows/mega-linter.yml b/.github/workflows/mega-linter.yml
index 90fe138fb2..3b3992d4c7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/mega-linter.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/mega-linter.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       # Git Checkout
       - name: Checkout Code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           token: ${{ secrets.PAT || secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           fetch-depth: 0 # If you use VALIDATE_ALL_CODEBASE = true, you can remove this line to improve performances
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 8242bdc9f5..815974b358 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
   sanity-check:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.operating-system }}
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: sanity-check
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: sanity-check
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: sanity-check
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ jobs:
       - build-wasm-runtime
       - build-creditcoin-js
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/runtime-upgrade.yml b/.github/workflows/runtime-upgrade.yml
index 9689a4bd8b..aa3b8cd8ad 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/runtime-upgrade.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/runtime-upgrade.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
       last_block_number: ${{ steps.last-block-info.outputs.last_block_number }}
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Set-Up
         run: |
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Set-Up
         run: |
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ jobs:
       [self-hosted, "${{ needs.deploy-github-runner.outputs.runner_vm_name }}"]
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Download creditcoin-node for release ${{ needs.setup.outputs.release_tag }}
         uses: i3h/download-release-asset@v1
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ jobs:
       [self-hosted, "${{ needs.deploy-github-runner.outputs.runner_vm_name }}"]
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Download creditcoin-node for release ${{ needs.setup.outputs.release_tag }}
         uses: i3h/download-release-asset@v1
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on:
       [self-hosted, "${{ needs.deploy-github-runner.outputs.runner_vm_name }}"]
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Download creditcoin-node from current PR
         uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on:
       [self-hosted, "${{ needs.deploy-github-runner.outputs.runner_vm_name }}"]
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Download creditcoin-node from current PR
         uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ jobs:
       resource_group: ${{ steps.get-env.outputs.resource_group }}
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Install azure-cli
         run: |
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ jobs:
       - setup
       - deploy-github-runner
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Download creditcoin-node binary from current PR
         uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ jobs:
     if: ${{ always() && needs.deploy-github-runner.result != 'skipped' }}
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Evaluate env vars
         id: get-env
diff --git a/.github/workflows/runtime.yml b/.github/workflows/runtime.yml
index 04d1bdcfea..f8d672bf11 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/runtime.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/runtime.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
   build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Srtool build
         id: srtool_build
         uses: chevdor/srtool-actions@v0.8.0
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: build
     if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/dev'
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
         with:
           name: creditcoin-runtime-${{ github.sha }}