diff --git a/Gopkg.lock b/Gopkg.lock
index b647d20212..d5ccc65899 100644
--- a/Gopkg.lock
+++ b/Gopkg.lock
@@ -679,7 +679,6 @@
     "github.com/tendermint/tmlibs/cli",
     "github.com/zondax/ledger-goclient",
     "golang.org/x/crypto/blowfish",
-    "golang.org/x/crypto/ripemd160",
   ]
   solver-name = "gps-cdcl"
   solver-version = 1
diff --git a/PENDING.md b/PENDING.md
index aec65f3d56..652da599b0 100644
--- a/PENDING.md
+++ b/PENDING.md
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ BREAKING CHANGES
     * [simulation] Remove log and testing.TB from Operation and Invariants, in favor of using errors \#2282
     * [tools] Removed gocyclo [#2211](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/issues/2211)
     * [baseapp] Remove `SetTxDecoder` in favor of requiring the decoder be set in baseapp initialization. [#1441](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/issues/1441)
+    * [store] Change storeInfo within the root multistore to use tmhash instead of ripemd160 \#2308
 
 * Tendermint
 
diff --git a/examples/README.md b/examples/README.md
index 11aef9d280..5d872a7c93 100644
--- a/examples/README.md
+++ b/examples/README.md
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ first time.
 
 Accounts are serialized and stored in a Merkle tree under the key
 ``base/a/<address>``, where ``<address>`` is the address of the account.
-Typically, the address of the account is the 20-byte ``RIPEMD160`` hash
+Typically, the address of the account is the first 20-bytes of the ``sha256`` hash
 of the public key, but other formats are acceptable as well, as defined
 in the `Tendermint crypto
 library <https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/tree/master/crypto>`__. The Merkle tree
diff --git a/store/multistoreproof.go b/store/multistoreproof.go
index e25f1cc1f2..d62bc4aca5 100644
--- a/store/multistoreproof.go
+++ b/store/multistoreproof.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package store
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 	"github.com/tendermint/iavl"
 	cmn "github.com/tendermint/tendermint/libs/common"
@@ -47,7 +48,6 @@ func VerifyMultiStoreCommitInfo(storeName string, storeInfos []storeInfo, appHas
 		Version:    height,
 		StoreInfos: storeInfos,
 	}
-
 	if !bytes.Equal(appHash, ci.Hash()) {
 		return nil, cmn.NewError("the merkle root of multiStoreCommitInfo doesn't equal to appHash")
 	}
diff --git a/store/multistoreproof_test.go b/store/multistoreproof_test.go
index 790588fb29..45a102cd3b 100644
--- a/store/multistoreproof_test.go
+++ b/store/multistoreproof_test.go
@@ -5,13 +5,14 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 	"github.com/tendermint/iavl"
 	cmn "github.com/tendermint/tendermint/libs/common"
 	"github.com/tendermint/tendermint/libs/db"
 )
 
 func TestVerifyMultiStoreCommitInfo(t *testing.T) {
-	appHash, _ := hex.DecodeString("ebf3c1fb724d3458023c8fefef7b33add2fc1e84")
+	appHash, _ := hex.DecodeString("69959B1B4E68E0F7BD3551A50C8F849B81801AF2")
 
 	substoreRootHash, _ := hex.DecodeString("ea5d468431015c2cd6295e9a0bb1fc0e49033828")
 	storeName := "acc"
@@ -83,13 +84,13 @@ func TestVerifyMultiStoreCommitInfo(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 
 	commitHash, err := VerifyMultiStoreCommitInfo(storeName, storeInfos, appHash)
-	assert.Nil(t, err)
-	assert.Equal(t, commitHash, substoreRootHash)
+	require.Nil(t, err)
+	require.Equal(t, commitHash, substoreRootHash)
 
 	appHash, _ = hex.DecodeString("29de216bf5e2531c688de36caaf024cd3bb09ee3")
 
 	_, err = VerifyMultiStoreCommitInfo(storeName, storeInfos, appHash)
-	assert.Error(t, err, "appHash doesn't match to the merkle root of multiStoreCommitInfo")
+	require.Error(t, err, "appHash doesn't match to the merkle root of multiStoreCommitInfo")
 }
 
 func TestVerifyRangeProof(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/store/rootmultistore.go b/store/rootmultistore.go
index d9cf8a29a2..8aa2da0ba3 100644
--- a/store/rootmultistore.go
+++ b/store/rootmultistore.go
@@ -5,10 +5,9 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"strings"
 
-	"golang.org/x/crypto/ripemd160"
-
 	abci "github.com/tendermint/tendermint/abci/types"
 	"github.com/tendermint/tendermint/crypto/merkle"
+	"github.com/tendermint/tendermint/crypto/tmhash"
 	dbm "github.com/tendermint/tendermint/libs/db"
 
 	sdk "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types"
@@ -424,7 +423,7 @@ func (si storeInfo) Hash() []byte {
 	// Doesn't write Name, since merkle.SimpleHashFromMap() will
 	// include them via the keys.
 	bz, _ := cdc.MarshalBinary(si.Core) // Does not error
-	hasher := ripemd160.New()
+	hasher := tmhash.New()
 	_, err := hasher.Write(bz)
 	if err != nil {
 		// TODO: Handle with #870