diff --git a/src/package_io/parse_input.star b/src/package_io/parse_input.star
index 760966cae..a9cfee2e1 100644
--- a/src/package_io/parse_input.star
+++ b/src/package_io/parse_input.star
@@ -173,7 +173,9 @@ def default_network_params():
 		"slots_per_epoch":                       32,
 		"genesis_delay":                         120,
 		"capella_fork_epoch":                   2,
-		"deneb_fork_epoch":                     5
+		# arbitrarily large while we sort out https://github.com/kurtosis-tech/eth-network-package/issues/42
+		# this will take 53~ hoours for now
+		"deneb_fork_epoch":                      500,
 	}
 
 def default_participant():