diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f86071c..da2daac 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "bt-decode"
-version = "0.0.1"
+version = "0.0.1a"
 description = "A wrapper around the scale-codec crate for fast scale-decoding of Bittensor data structures."
 readme = "README.md"
 license = {file = "LICENSE"}