diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index dca46b696..2753861a6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ The following emojis are used to highlight certain changes:
 
 - `provider`: Prevent multiple instances of reprovider.Reprovide() from running at the same time. [#834](https://github.com/ipfs/boxo/pull/834)
 - upgrade to `go-libp2p` [v0.39.1](https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/releases/tag/v0.39.1)
+- updated Go in `go.mod` to 1.23 [#848](https://github.com/ipfs/boxo/pull/848)
 
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/cmd/boxo-migrate/go.mod b/cmd/boxo-migrate/go.mod
index 69ecad6e5..07d9fa5ad 100644
--- a/cmd/boxo-migrate/go.mod
+++ b/cmd/boxo-migrate/go.mod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module github.com/ipfs/boxo/cmd/boxo-migrate
 
-go 1.22
+go 1.23
 
 require github.com/urfave/cli/v2 v2.25.1
 
diff --git a/cmd/deprecator/go.mod b/cmd/deprecator/go.mod
index 01efe8339..b6a4b2112 100644
--- a/cmd/deprecator/go.mod
+++ b/cmd/deprecator/go.mod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module github.com/ipfs/boxo/cmd/deprecator
 
-go 1.22
+go 1.23
 
 require (
 	github.com/dave/dst v0.27.2
diff --git a/examples/go.mod b/examples/go.mod
index 1e4e421cc..47c5b3556 100644
--- a/examples/go.mod
+++ b/examples/go.mod
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 module github.com/ipfs/boxo/examples
 
-go 1.22.0
-
-toolchain go1.22.8
+go 1.23
 
 require (
 	github.com/ipfs/boxo v0.24.3
diff --git a/fetcher/testutil/testutil.go b/fetcher/testutil/testutil.go
index 078022b50..ecb7ac102 100644
--- a/fetcher/testutil/testutil.go
+++ b/fetcher/testutil/testutil.go
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	blocks "github.com/ipfs/go-block-format"
 	"github.com/ipfs/go-cid"
 	"github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime"
+
 	// used to make sure we have dagcbor encoding
 	_ "github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/codec/dagcbor"
 	cidlink "github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/linking/cid"
diff --git a/gateway/assets/test/main.go b/gateway/assets/test/main.go
index ad3fdd8b1..d27cfa50a 100644
--- a/gateway/assets/test/main.go
+++ b/gateway/assets/test/main.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/ipfs/boxo/gateway/assets"
 	"github.com/ipfs/go-cid"
+
 	// Ensure basic codecs are registered.
 	_ "github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/codec/cbor"
 	_ "github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/codec/dagcbor"
diff --git a/gateway/backend_blocks.go b/gateway/backend_blocks.go
index 79cf99607..20c4339bf 100644
--- a/gateway/backend_blocks.go
+++ b/gateway/backend_blocks.go
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/ipld/go-car/v2/storage"
 	dagpb "github.com/ipld/go-codec-dagpb"
 	"github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime"
+
 	// Ensure basic codecs are registered.
 	_ "github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/codec/cbor"
 	_ "github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/codec/dagcbor"
diff --git a/gateway/handler_codec.go b/gateway/handler_codec.go
index 80d676409..1c93fc9b8 100644
--- a/gateway/handler_codec.go
+++ b/gateway/handler_codec.go
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/ipfs/boxo/gateway/assets"
 	"github.com/ipfs/boxo/path"
 	"github.com/ipfs/go-cid"
+
 	// Ensure basic codecs are registered.
 	_ "github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/codec/cbor"
 	_ "github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/codec/dagcbor"
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index bd8bdab99..dd7228526 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 module github.com/ipfs/boxo
 
-go 1.22.0
-
-toolchain go1.22.8
+go 1.23
 
 require (
 	github.com/alecthomas/units v0.0.0-20240927000941-0f3dac36c52b
diff --git a/ipld/merkledag/merkledag.go b/ipld/merkledag/merkledag.go
index d500dc7c7..1c638d139 100644
--- a/ipld/merkledag/merkledag.go
+++ b/ipld/merkledag/merkledag.go
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import (
 	format "github.com/ipfs/go-ipld-format"
 	legacy "github.com/ipfs/go-ipld-legacy"
 	dagpb "github.com/ipld/go-codec-dagpb"
+
 	// blank import is used to register the IPLD raw codec
 	_ "github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/codec/raw"
 	basicnode "github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/node/basic"
diff --git a/ipns/pb/record.pb.go b/ipns/pb/record.pb.go
index 526e12f17..6a9397a68 100644
--- a/ipns/pb/record.pb.go
+++ b/ipns/pb/record.pb.go
@@ -7,10 +7,11 @@
 package pb
 
 import (
-	protoreflect "google.golang.org/protobuf/reflect/protoreflect"
-	protoimpl "google.golang.org/protobuf/runtime/protoimpl"
 	reflect "reflect"
 	sync "sync"
+
+	protoreflect "google.golang.org/protobuf/reflect/protoreflect"
+	protoimpl "google.golang.org/protobuf/runtime/protoimpl"
 )
 
 const (