diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index a97e12ee50d..e8169182e72 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ replace github.com/gogo/protobuf => github.com/regen-network/protobuf v1.3.3-alp
 require (
 	github.com/armon/go-metrics v0.3.9
 	github.com/confio/ics23/go v0.6.6
-	github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk v0.43.0
+	github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk v0.44.0
 	github.com/gogo/protobuf v1.3.3
 	github.com/golang/protobuf v1.5.2
 	github.com/gorilla/mux v1.8.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 6b34c7a0da1..aca5c37b91f 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -165,8 +165,8 @@ github.com/coreos/go-systemd v0.0.0-20190321100706-95778dfbb74e/go.mod h1:F5haX7
 github.com/coreos/go-systemd/v22 v22.3.2/go.mod h1:Y58oyj3AT4RCenI/lSvhwexgC+NSVTIJ3seZv2GcEnc=
 github.com/coreos/pkg v0.0.0-20160727233714-3ac0863d7acf/go.mod h1:E3G3o1h8I7cfcXa63jLwjI0eiQQMgzzUDFVpN/nH/eA=
 github.com/coreos/pkg v0.0.0-20180928190104-399ea9e2e55f/go.mod h1:E3G3o1h8I7cfcXa63jLwjI0eiQQMgzzUDFVpN/nH/eA=
-github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk v0.43.0 h1:l2GXJMDVtJyHb35pDUCw+uyr6eZtBo8vt+7PSsq+Fjo=
-github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk v0.43.0/go.mod h1:ctcrTEAhei9s8O3KSNvL0dxe+fVQGp07QyRb/7H9JYE=
+github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk v0.44.0 h1:eOSjACNtTnThEJ62IsS+pMm3OIU6hgMVqrp4TZClLZo=
+github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk v0.44.0/go.mod h1:orG0jzFJ2KsDfzLd/X0JSOMzF4Oxc/BQz2GkcYF4gRE=
 github.com/cosmos/go-bip39 v0.0.0-20180819234021-555e2067c45d/go.mod h1:tSxLoYXyBmiFeKpvmq4dzayMdCjCnu8uqmCysIGBT2Y=
 github.com/cosmos/go-bip39 v1.0.0 h1:pcomnQdrdH22njcAatO0yWojsUnCO3y2tNoV1cb6hHY=
 github.com/cosmos/go-bip39 v1.0.0/go.mod h1:RNJv0H/pOIVgxw6KS7QeX2a0Uo0aKUlfhZ4xuwvCdJw=
@@ -771,7 +771,6 @@ github.com/tendermint/tendermint v0.34.0-rc4/go.mod h1:yotsojf2C1QBOw4dZrTcxbyxm
 github.com/tendermint/tendermint v0.34.0-rc6/go.mod h1:ugzyZO5foutZImv0Iyx/gOFCX6mjJTgbLHTwi17VDVg=
 github.com/tendermint/tendermint v0.34.0/go.mod h1:Aj3PIipBFSNO21r+Lq3TtzQ+uKESxkbA3yo/INM4QwQ=
 github.com/tendermint/tendermint v0.34.10/go.mod h1:aeHL7alPh4uTBIJQ8mgFEE8VwJLXI1VD3rVOmH2Mcy0=
-github.com/tendermint/tendermint v0.34.11/go.mod h1:aeHL7alPh4uTBIJQ8mgFEE8VwJLXI1VD3rVOmH2Mcy0=
 github.com/tendermint/tendermint v0.34.12 h1:m+kUYNhONedhJfHmHG8lqsdZvbR5t6vmhaok1yXjpKg=
 github.com/tendermint/tendermint v0.34.12/go.mod h1:aeHL7alPh4uTBIJQ8mgFEE8VwJLXI1VD3rVOmH2Mcy0=
 github.com/tendermint/tm-db v0.6.2/go.mod h1:GYtQ67SUvATOcoY8/+x6ylk8Qo02BQyLrAs+yAcLvGI=
diff --git a/modules/core/02-client/keeper/client_test.go b/modules/core/02-client/keeper/client_test.go
index 0029ae5f235..f8719b38759 100644
--- a/modules/core/02-client/keeper/client_test.go
+++ b/modules/core/02-client/keeper/client_test.go
@@ -678,8 +678,8 @@ func (suite *KeeperTestSuite) TestUpdateClientEventEmission() {
 
 	result, err := suite.chainA.SendMsgs(msg)
 	suite.Require().NoError(err)
-	// first event type is "message", followed by 2 "tx" events in ante
-	updateEvent := result.Events[3]
+	// first event type is "message", followed by 3 "tx" events in ante
+	updateEvent := result.Events[4]
 	suite.Require().Equal(clienttypes.EventTypeUpdateClient, updateEvent.Type)
 
 	// use a boolean to ensure the update event contains the header
diff --git a/testing/sdk_test.go b/testing/sdk_test.go
index b7b63b1a1c1..4d41e96dac9 100644
--- a/testing/sdk_test.go
+++ b/testing/sdk_test.go
@@ -126,65 +126,6 @@ func (s *IntegrationTestSuite) TearDownSuite() {
 	s.network.Cleanup()
 }
 
-// Create an IBC tx that's encoded as amino-JSON. Since we can't amino-marshal
-// a tx with "cosmos-sdk/MsgTransfer" using the SDK, we just hardcode the tx
-// here. But external clients might, see https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/issues/8022.
-func mkIBCStdTx() []byte {
-	ibcTx := `{
-		"account_number": "68",
-		"chain_id": "stargate-4",
-		"fee": {
-		  "amount": [
-			{
-			  "amount": "3500",
-			  "denom": "umuon"
-			}
-		  ],
-		  "gas": "350000"
-		},
-		"memo": "",
-		"msg": [
-		  {
-			"type": "cosmos-sdk/MsgTransfer",
-			"value": {
-			  "receiver": "cosmos1q9wtnlwdjrhwtcjmt2uq77jrgx7z3usrq2yz7z",
-			  "sender": "cosmos1q9wtnlwdjrhwtcjmt2uq77jrgx7z3usrq2yz7z",
-			  "source_channel": "channel-0",
-			  "source_port": "transfer",
-			  "token": {
-				"amount": "1000000",
-				"denom": "umuon"
-			  }
-			}
-		  }
-		],
-		"sequence": "24"
-	  }`
-	req := fmt.Sprintf(`{"tx":%s,"mode":"async"}`, ibcTx)
-
-	return []byte(req)
-}
-
-func (s *IntegrationTestSuite) TestEncodeIBCTx() {
-	val := s.network.Validators[0]
-
-	req := mkIBCStdTx()
-	res, err := rest.PostRequest(fmt.Sprintf("%s/txs/encode", val.APIAddress), "application/json", []byte(req))
-	s.Require().NoError(err)
-
-	s.Require().Contains(string(res), authrest.ErrEncodeDecode.Error())
-}
-
-func (s *IntegrationTestSuite) TestBroadcastIBCTxRequest() {
-	val := s.network.Validators[0]
-
-	req := mkIBCStdTx()
-	res, err := rest.PostRequest(fmt.Sprintf("%s/txs", val.APIAddress), "application/json", []byte(req))
-	s.Require().NoError(err)
-
-	s.Require().NotContains(string(res), "this transaction cannot be broadcasted via legacy REST endpoints", string(res))
-}
-
 // TestLegacyRestErrMessages creates two IBC txs, one that fails, one that
 // succeeds, and make sure we cannot query any of them (with pretty error msg).
 // Our intension is to test the error message of querying a message which is