diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index eccc2b708a80..925a03e88b9c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ Ref: https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/
 
 ### Improvements
 
+* (types) [#18888](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/18888) Speedup DecCoin.Sort() if len(coins) <= 1
 * (types) [#18875](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/18875) Speedup coins.Sort() if len(coins) <= 1
 * (client/keys) [#18745](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/18745) Improve `<appd> keys export` and `<appd> keys mnemonic` by adding --yes option to skip interactive confirmation.
 * (client/keys) [#18743](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/18743) Improve `<appd> keys add -i` by hiding inputting of bip39 passphrase.
diff --git a/types/dec_coin.go b/types/dec_coin.go
index b844301f8c84..c1bbcc6a8ecf 100644
--- a/types/dec_coin.go
+++ b/types/dec_coin.go
@@ -615,7 +615,12 @@ func (coins DecCoins) Swap(i, j int) { coins[i], coins[j] = coins[j], coins[i] }
 
 // Sort is a helper function to sort the set of decimal coins in-place.
 func (coins DecCoins) Sort() DecCoins {
-	sort.Sort(coins)
+	// sort.Sort(coins) does a costly runtime copy as part of `runtime.convTSlice`
+	// So we avoid this heap allocation if len(coins) <= 1. In the future, we should hopefully find
+	// a strategy to always avoid this.
+	if len(coins) > 1 {
+		sort.Sort(coins)
+	}
 	return coins
 }