diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1b0a16134260..1b2047d56ca8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ Ref: https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/
 * (x/consensus) [#15553](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/15553) Migrate consensus module to use collections
 * (x/bank) [#15764](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/15764) Speedup x/bank InitGenesis
 * (x/auth) [#15867](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/15867) Support better logging for signature verification failure.
+* (types/query) [#16041](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/16041) change pagination max limit to a variable in order to be modifed by application devs
 
 ### State Machine Breaking
 
diff --git a/types/query/pagination.go b/types/query/pagination.go
index 3eeb3a297aec..61e3c0679e50 100644
--- a/types/query/pagination.go
+++ b/types/query/pagination.go
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ const DefaultPage = 1
 // if the `limit` is not supplied, paginate will use `DefaultLimit`
 const DefaultLimit = 100
 
-// MaxLimit is the maximum limit the paginate function can handle
+// PaginationMaxLimit is the maximum limit the paginate function can handle
 // which equals the maximum value that can be stored in uint64
-const MaxLimit = math.MaxUint64
+var PaginationMaxLimit uint64 = math.MaxUint64
 
 // ParsePagination validate PageRequest and returns page number & limit.
 func ParsePagination(pageReq *PageRequest) (page, limit int, err error) {
diff --git a/x/bank/keeper/genesis.go b/x/bank/keeper/genesis.go
index eaee07c4843d..a74208b05b7d 100644
--- a/x/bank/keeper/genesis.go
+++ b/x/bank/keeper/genesis.go
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ func (k BaseKeeper) InitGenesis(ctx context.Context, genState *types.GenesisStat
 
 // ExportGenesis returns the bank module's genesis state.
 func (k BaseKeeper) ExportGenesis(ctx context.Context) *types.GenesisState {
-	totalSupply, _, err := k.GetPaginatedTotalSupply(ctx, &query.PageRequest{Limit: query.MaxLimit})
+	totalSupply, _, err := k.GetPaginatedTotalSupply(ctx, &query.PageRequest{Limit: query.PaginationMaxLimit})
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(fmt.Errorf("unable to fetch total supply %v", err))
 	}
diff --git a/x/bank/keeper/genesis_test.go b/x/bank/keeper/genesis_test.go
index ac04a6232c7a..251f0180ba99 100644
--- a/x/bank/keeper/genesis_test.go
+++ b/x/bank/keeper/genesis_test.go
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ func (suite *KeeperTestSuite) TestExportGenesis() {
 	expectedBalances, expTotalSupply := suite.getTestBalancesAndSupply()
 
 	// Adding genesis supply to the expTotalSupply
-	genesisSupply, _, err := suite.bankKeeper.GetPaginatedTotalSupply(suite.ctx, &query.PageRequest{Limit: query.MaxLimit})
+	genesisSupply, _, err := suite.bankKeeper.GetPaginatedTotalSupply(suite.ctx, &query.PageRequest{Limit: query.PaginationMaxLimit})
 	suite.Require().NoError(err)
 	expTotalSupply = expTotalSupply.Add(genesisSupply...)
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ func (suite *KeeperTestSuite) TestTotalSupply() {
 	}
 	totalSupply := sdk.NewCoins(sdk.NewCoin("foocoin", sdkmath.NewInt(11)), sdk.NewCoin("barcoin", sdkmath.NewInt(21)))
 
-	genesisSupply, _, err := suite.bankKeeper.GetPaginatedTotalSupply(suite.ctx, &query.PageRequest{Limit: query.MaxLimit})
+	genesisSupply, _, err := suite.bankKeeper.GetPaginatedTotalSupply(suite.ctx, &query.PageRequest{Limit: query.PaginationMaxLimit})
 	suite.Require().NoError(err)
 
 	testcases := []struct {
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ func (suite *KeeperTestSuite) TestTotalSupply() {
 				suite.PanicsWithError(tc.expPanicMsg, func() { suite.bankKeeper.InitGenesis(suite.ctx, tc.genesis) })
 			} else {
 				suite.bankKeeper.InitGenesis(suite.ctx, tc.genesis)
-				totalSupply, _, err := suite.bankKeeper.GetPaginatedTotalSupply(suite.ctx, &query.PageRequest{Limit: query.MaxLimit})
+				totalSupply, _, err := suite.bankKeeper.GetPaginatedTotalSupply(suite.ctx, &query.PageRequest{Limit: query.PaginationMaxLimit})
 				suite.Require().NoError(err)
 
 				// adding genesis supply to expected supply
diff --git a/x/bank/keeper/invariants.go b/x/bank/keeper/invariants.go
index 5db22af69f81..72240a1ac387 100644
--- a/x/bank/keeper/invariants.go
+++ b/x/bank/keeper/invariants.go
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ func NonnegativeBalanceInvariant(k ViewKeeper) sdk.Invariant {
 func TotalSupply(k Keeper) sdk.Invariant {
 	return func(ctx sdk.Context) (string, bool) {
 		expectedTotal := sdk.Coins{}
-		supply, _, err := k.GetPaginatedTotalSupply(ctx, &query.PageRequest{Limit: query.MaxLimit})
+		supply, _, err := k.GetPaginatedTotalSupply(ctx, &query.PageRequest{Limit: query.PaginationMaxLimit})
 		if err != nil {
 			return sdk.FormatInvariant(types.ModuleName, "query supply",
 				fmt.Sprintf("error querying total supply %v", err)), false