diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 541a0c79128..7021e7154b2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Features
 
+* [#2057](https://github.com/osmosis-labs/osmosis/pull/2057) Reduce block times to about three seconds
 * [#1312] Stableswap: Createpool logic 
 * [#1230] Stableswap CFMM equations
 * [#1429] solver for multi-asset CFMM
diff --git a/cmd/osmosisd/cmd/init.go b/cmd/osmosisd/cmd/init.go
index 24d16d363c4..54e6050461b 100644
--- a/cmd/osmosisd/cmd/init.go
+++ b/cmd/osmosisd/cmd/init.go
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ func InitCmd(mbm module.BasicManager, defaultNodeHome string) *cobra.Command {
 			config.P2P.Seeds = strings.Join(seeds, ",")
 			config.P2P.MaxNumInboundPeers = 320
 			config.P2P.MaxNumOutboundPeers = 40
+			config.Consensus.TimeoutCommit = 2 * time.Second
 			config.Mempool.Size = 10000
 			config.StateSync.TrustPeriod = 112 * time.Hour
 			config.FastSync.Version = "v0"
diff --git a/cmd/osmosisd/cmd/root.go b/cmd/osmosisd/cmd/root.go
index b1dae87cbec..c665d4d72d1 100644
--- a/cmd/osmosisd/cmd/root.go
+++ b/cmd/osmosisd/cmd/root.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"time"
 
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
 
@@ -74,7 +75,11 @@ func NewRootCmd() (*cobra.Command, params.EncodingConfig) {
 			if err := client.SetCmdClientContextHandler(initClientCtx, cmd); err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
+
 			customAppTemplate, customAppConfig := initAppConfig()
+			serverCtx := server.GetServerContextFromCmd(cmd)
+			serverCtx.Config.Consensus.TimeoutCommit = 2 * time.Second
+
 			return server.InterceptConfigsPreRunHandler(cmd, customAppTemplate, customAppConfig)
 		},
 		SilenceUsage: true,