We prove that the discrete spherical maximal functions (in the spirit of Magyar, Stein, and Wainger) corresponding to the Euclidean spheres in $\mathbb {Z}^{d}$ with dyadic radii have $\ell ^{p}(\mathbb {Z}^{d})$ bounds for all $p\in [2, \infty ]$ independent of the dimensions $d\ge 5$. An important part of our argument is the asymptotic formula in the Waring problem for the squares with a dimension-free multiplicative error term. By considering new approximating multipliers, we will show how to absorb an exponential in dimension (like $C^{d}$ for some $C>1$) growth in norms arising from the sampling principle of Magyar, Stein, and Wainger and ultimately deduce dimension-free estimates for the discrete spherical maximal functions.