diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 0d5a3a10c..1ef81e621 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/btcsuite/btcd v0.21.0-beta
 	github.com/btcsuite/btcutil v1.0.2
 	github.com/confio/ics23/go v0.6.3
-	github.com/cosmos/iavl v0.15.2
+	github.com/cosmos/iavl v0.15.3
 	github.com/fortytw2/leaktest v1.3.0
 	github.com/go-kit/kit v0.10.0
 	github.com/go-logfmt/logfmt v0.5.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 574db9245..4b34f8e26 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ github.com/cosmos/iavl v0.15.0-rc3.0.20201009144442-230e9bdf52cd h1:K3bmPkMDnd2K
 github.com/cosmos/iavl v0.15.0-rc3.0.20201009144442-230e9bdf52cd/go.mod h1:3xOIaNNX19p0QrX0VqWa6voPRoJRGGYtny+DH8NEPvE=
 github.com/cosmos/iavl v0.15.0-rc5 h1:AMKgaAjXwGANWv56NL4q4hV+a0puSkLYD6cCQAv3i44=
 github.com/cosmos/iavl v0.15.0-rc5/go.mod h1:WqoPL9yPTQ85QBMT45OOUzPxG/U/JcJoN7uMjgxke/I=
-github.com/cosmos/iavl v0.15.2 h1:caJFlSFRCgUDBavRL92JRILI2Lx+7zWxzKGY/CI2qxA=
-github.com/cosmos/iavl v0.15.2/go.mod h1:OLjQiAQ4fGD2KDZooyJG9yz+p2ao2IAYSbke8mVvSA4=
+github.com/cosmos/iavl v0.15.3 h1:xE9r6HW8GeKeoYJN4zefpljZ1oukVScP/7M8oj6SUts=
+github.com/cosmos/iavl v0.15.3/go.mod h1:OLjQiAQ4fGD2KDZooyJG9yz+p2ao2IAYSbke8mVvSA4=
 github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man v1.0.10/go.mod h1:SmD6nW6nTyfqj6ABTjUi3V3JVMnlJmwcJI5acqYI6dE=
 github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.0-20190314233015-f79a8a8ca69d/go.mod h1:maD7wRr/U5Z6m/iR4s+kqSMx2CaBsrgA7czyZG/E6dU=
 github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.0/go.mod h1:maD7wRr/U5Z6m/iR4s+kqSMx2CaBsrgA7czyZG/E6dU=