diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e9d36c9e4..5795255f8 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2198,7 +2198,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "c-kzg",
  "clap",
- "const_format",
  "discv5",
  "env_logger 0.9.3",
  "eth_trie",
@@ -2224,7 +2223,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_yaml",
  "sha2 0.10.8",
  "sha3 0.9.1",
- "shadow-rs",
  "snap",
  "ssz_types",
  "superstruct",
@@ -7001,7 +6999,9 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "ansi_term",
  "atty",
+ "const_format",
  "directories",
+ "shadow-rs",
  "tempfile",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-subscriber 0.3.19",
diff --git a/ethportal-api/Cargo.toml b/ethportal-api/Cargo.toml
index 257f6ec21..b5289acaa 100644
--- a/ethportal-api/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ethportal-api/Cargo.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 name = "ethportal-api"
 version = "0.4.0"
 description = "Definitions for various Ethereum Portal Network JSONRPC APIs"
-build = "build.rs"
 authors.workspace = true
 categories.workspace = true
 edition.workspace = true
@@ -22,7 +21,6 @@ bimap = "0.6.3"
 bytes.workspace = true
 c-kzg = "1.0.0"
 clap.workspace = true
-const_format = {version = "0.2.0", features = ["rust_1_64"]}
 discv5.workspace = true
 eth_trie.workspace = true
 ethereum_hashing = "0.7.0"
@@ -45,7 +43,6 @@ serde-this-or-that.workspace = true
 serde_json.workspace = true
 sha2 = "0.10.1"
 sha3.workspace = true
-shadow-rs = "0.27"
 ssz_types.workspace = true
 superstruct = "0.7.0"
 thiserror.workspace = true
@@ -65,6 +62,3 @@ snap.workspace = true
 test-log.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
 tracing-subscriber.workspace = true
-
-[build-dependencies]
-shadow-rs = "0.27"
diff --git a/ethportal-api/src/lib.rs b/ethportal-api/src/lib.rs
index 6292e7cb8..ceb7f1745 100644
--- a/ethportal-api/src/lib.rs
+++ b/ethportal-api/src/lib.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ mod state;
 mod test_utils;
 pub mod types;
 pub mod utils;
-pub mod version;
 mod web3;
 
 pub use beacon::{BeaconNetworkApiClient, BeaconNetworkApiServer};
@@ -48,5 +47,3 @@ pub use types::{
     portal::{RawContentKey, RawContentValue},
 };
 pub use web3::{Web3ApiClient, Web3ApiServer};
-
-shadow_rs::shadow!(build_info);
diff --git a/ethportal-api/src/types/cli.rs b/ethportal-api/src/types/cli.rs
index 37f6cbf71..7c543ae79 100644
--- a/ethportal-api/src/types/cli.rs
+++ b/ethportal-api/src/types/cli.rs
@@ -9,10 +9,7 @@ use clap::{
 };
 use url::Url;
 
-use crate::{
-    build_info,
-    types::{bootnodes::Bootnodes, network::Subnetwork},
-};
+use crate::types::{bootnodes::Bootnodes, network::Subnetwork};
 
 pub const DEFAULT_WEB3_IPC_PATH: &str = "/tmp/trin-jsonrpc.ipc";
 pub const DEFAULT_WEB3_HTTP_ADDRESS: &str = "http://127.0.0.1:8545/";
@@ -56,22 +53,6 @@ impl FromStr for Web3TransportType {
 }
 
 const APP_NAME: &str = "trin";
-const VERSION: &str = const_format::formatcp!(
-    "{version}-{hash} {build_os} {rust_version}",
-    // Remove -alpha.1 versioning if it is present.
-    // This must be done as it can conflict with eth versioning
-    version = const_format::str_split!(build_info::PKG_VERSION, '-')[0],
-    hash = build_info::short_commit(),
-    build_os = build_info::BUILD_OS,
-    // the rust version looks like that:
-    // rustc 1.77.0 (aedd173a2 2024-03-17)
-    // we remove everything in the brackets and replace spaces with nothing
-    rust_version = const_format::str_replace!(
-        const_format::str_split!(build_info::RUST_VERSION, '(')[0],
-        ' ',
-        ""
-    )
-);
 
 /// The storage capacity configurtion.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
@@ -91,7 +72,8 @@ pub enum StorageCapacityConfig {
 #[command(name = APP_NAME,
     author = "https://github.com/ethereum/trin/graphs/contributors",
     about = "Run an eth portal client",
-    version = VERSION)]
+    version = "To get the current trin version, please start the client and it will be displayed in the logs.",
+)]
 pub struct TrinConfig {
     #[arg(
         default_value = DEFAULT_WEB3_TRANSPORT,
diff --git a/ethportal-api/src/version.rs b/ethportal-api/src/version.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index a29bae672..000000000
--- a/ethportal-api/src/version.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-/// Returns the trin version and git revision.
-pub const fn get_trin_version() -> &'static str {
-    crate::build_info::short_commit()
-}
diff --git a/ethportal-peertest/src/scenarios/basic.rs b/ethportal-peertest/src/scenarios/basic.rs
index 27ae75c7e..63e79fda0 100644
--- a/ethportal-peertest/src/scenarios/basic.rs
+++ b/ethportal-peertest/src/scenarios/basic.rs
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 use alloy::primitives::{B256, U256};
 use ethportal_api::{
     types::{distance::Distance, network::Subnetwork},
-    version::get_trin_version,
     BeaconNetworkApiClient, ContentValue, Discv5ApiClient, HistoryContentKey,
     HistoryNetworkApiClient, StateNetworkApiClient, Web3ApiClient,
 };
 use jsonrpsee::async_client::Client;
 use ssz::Encode;
 use tracing::info;
+use trin_utils::version::get_trin_version;
 
 use crate::{utils::fixture_header_by_hash, Peertest, PeertestNode};
 
diff --git a/portalnet/src/discovery.rs b/portalnet/src/discovery.rs
index 27904ba16..123d0f3bd 100644
--- a/portalnet/src/discovery.rs
+++ b/portalnet/src/discovery.rs
@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@ use discv5::{
 use ethportal_api::{
     types::{discv5::RoutingTableInfo, enr::Enr, network::Subnetwork, portal_wire::NetworkSpec},
     utils::bytes::hex_decode,
-    version::get_trin_version,
     NodeInfo,
 };
 use lru::LruCache;
 use parking_lot::RwLock;
 use tokio::sync::{mpsc, RwLock as TokioRwLock};
 use tracing::{debug, info, warn};
+use trin_utils::version::get_trin_short_version_commit;
 use trin_validation::oracle::HeaderOracle;
 use utp_rs::{cid::ConnectionPeer, udp::AsyncUdpSocket};
 
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ impl Discovery {
                 .as_secs();
             builder.seq(epoch_timestamp);
 
-            let trin_version = get_trin_version();
+            let trin_version = get_trin_short_version_commit();
             // Use "t" as short-hand for "Trin" to save bytes in ENR.
             let client_info = format!("t {trin_version}");
             // Use "c" as short-hand for "client".
diff --git a/rpc/src/web3_rpc.rs b/rpc/src/web3_rpc.rs
index f8065eaaf..da2490c6f 100644
--- a/rpc/src/web3_rpc.rs
+++ b/rpc/src/web3_rpc.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-use ethportal_api::{version::get_trin_version, Web3ApiServer};
+use ethportal_api::Web3ApiServer;
+use trin_utils::version::get_trin_version;
 
 use crate::jsonrpsee::core::{async_trait, RpcResult};
 
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 20edd3a2b..e652fa795 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ use ethportal_api::types::cli::Web3TransportType;
 use ethportal_api::{
     types::{cli::TrinConfig, network::Subnetwork},
     utils::bytes::hex_encode,
-    version::get_trin_version,
 };
 use portalnet::{
     config::PortalnetConfig,
@@ -24,6 +23,7 @@ use trin_beacon::initialize_beacon_network;
 use trin_history::initialize_history_network;
 use trin_state::initialize_state_network;
 use trin_storage::PortalStorageConfigFactory;
+use trin_utils::version::get_trin_version;
 use trin_validation::oracle::HeaderOracle;
 use utp_rs::socket::UtpSocket;
 
diff --git a/trin-utils/Cargo.toml b/trin-utils/Cargo.toml
index 5ec5a12ba..6aac2df17 100644
--- a/trin-utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/trin-utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 name = "trin-utils"
 description = "Utils library for Trin."
+build = "build.rs"
 authors.workspace = true
 categories.workspace = true
 edition.workspace = true
@@ -12,11 +13,16 @@ rust-version.workspace = true
 version.workspace = true
 
 [dependencies]
+const_format = {version = "0.2.0", features = ["rust_1_64"]}
 directories.workspace = true
+shadow-rs = "0.27"
 tempfile.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
 tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true, features = ["env-filter"] }
 
+[build-dependencies]
+shadow-rs = "0.27"
+
 [target.'cfg(windows)'.dependencies]
 # The crates for detecting whether the terminal supports colors are OS-specific.
 ansi_term = "0.12"
diff --git a/ethportal-api/build.rs b/trin-utils/build.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from ethportal-api/build.rs
rename to trin-utils/build.rs
diff --git a/trin-utils/src/lib.rs b/trin-utils/src/lib.rs
index 623e58449..2a0db59ca 100644
--- a/trin-utils/src/lib.rs
+++ b/trin-utils/src/lib.rs
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@
 pub mod dir;
 pub mod log;
 pub mod submodules;
+pub mod version;
+
+shadow_rs::shadow!(build_info);
diff --git a/trin-utils/src/version.rs b/trin-utils/src/version.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..28c65da1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/trin-utils/src/version.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/// Returns the short commit hash
+pub const fn get_trin_short_version_commit() -> &'static str {
+    crate::build_info::short_commit()
+}
+
+/// Returns the full trin version
+pub const fn get_trin_version() -> &'static str {
+    const_format::formatcp!(
+        "{version}-{hash} {build_os} {rust_version}",
+        // Remove -alpha.1 versioning if it is present.
+        // This must be done as it can conflict with eth versioning
+        version = const_format::str_split!(crate::build_info::PKG_VERSION, '-')[0],
+        hash = crate::build_info::short_commit(),
+        build_os = crate::build_info::BUILD_OS,
+        // the rust version looks like that:
+        // rustc 1.77.0 (aedd173a2 2024-03-17)
+        // we remove everything in the brackets and replace spaces with nothing
+        rust_version = const_format::str_replace!(
+            const_format::str_split!(crate::build_info::RUST_VERSION, '(')[0],
+            ' ',
+            ""
+        )
+    )
+}