diff --git a/PENDING.md b/PENDING.md
index 9c4db6c45c..73567c2373 100644
--- a/PENDING.md
+++ b/PENDING.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ BREAKING CHANGES
 * Gaia
  - [#128](https://github.com/tendermint/devops/issues/128) Updated CircleCI job to trigger website build on every push to master/develop.
  - [\#2994](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/2994) Change wrong-password error message.
+ - \#3009 Added missing Gaia genesis verification
 
 * SDK
  - [auth] \#2952 Signatures are no longer serialized on chain with the account number and sequence number
diff --git a/cmd/gaia/app/app_test.go b/cmd/gaia/app/app_test.go
index 358c3395c7..e356d6d6da 100644
--- a/cmd/gaia/app/app_test.go
+++ b/cmd/gaia/app/app_test.go
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import (
 	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/codec"
 	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/auth"
 	distr "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/distribution"
+	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/gov"
+	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/mint"
 	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/slashing"
 	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/stake"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
@@ -22,12 +24,15 @@ func setGenesis(gapp *GaiaApp, accs ...*auth.BaseAccount) error {
 		genaccs[i] = NewGenesisAccount(acc)
 	}
 
-	genesisState := GenesisState{
-		Accounts:     genaccs,
-		StakeData:    stake.DefaultGenesisState(),
-		DistrData:    distr.DefaultGenesisState(),
-		SlashingData: slashing.DefaultGenesisState(),
-	}
+	genesisState := NewGenesisState(
+		genaccs,
+		auth.DefaultGenesisState(),
+		stake.DefaultGenesisState(),
+		mint.DefaultGenesisState(),
+		distr.DefaultGenesisState(),
+		gov.DefaultGenesisState(),
+		slashing.DefaultGenesisState(),
+	)
 
 	stateBytes, err := codec.MarshalJSONIndent(gapp.cdc, genesisState)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/cmd/gaia/app/genesis.go b/cmd/gaia/app/genesis.go
index 44cb9d2eeb..ee3ecfcd65 100644
--- a/cmd/gaia/app/genesis.go
+++ b/cmd/gaia/app/genesis.go
@@ -155,20 +155,42 @@ func NewDefaultGenesisState() GenesisState {
 // TODO: No validators are both bonded and jailed (#2088)
 // TODO: Error if there is a duplicate validator (#1708)
 // TODO: Ensure all state machine parameters are in genesis (#1704)
-func GaiaValidateGenesisState(genesisState GenesisState) (err error) {
-	err = validateGenesisStateAccounts(genesisState.Accounts)
+func GaiaValidateGenesisState(genesisState GenesisState) error {
+	err := validateGenesisStateAccounts(genesisState.Accounts)
 	if err != nil {
-		return
+		return err
 	}
 	// skip stakeData validation as genesis is created from txs
 	if len(genesisState.GenTxs) > 0 {
 		return nil
 	}
-	return stake.ValidateGenesis(genesisState.StakeData)
+
+	err = stake.ValidateGenesis(genesisState.StakeData)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	err = mint.ValidateGenesis(genesisState.MintData)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	err = distr.ValidateGenesis(genesisState.DistrData)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	err = gov.ValidateGenesis(genesisState.GovData)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	err = slashing.ValidateGenesis(genesisState.SlashingData)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	return nil
 }
 
 // Ensures that there are no duplicate accounts in the genesis state,
-func validateGenesisStateAccounts(accs []GenesisAccount) (err error) {
+func validateGenesisStateAccounts(accs []GenesisAccount) error {
 	addrMap := make(map[string]bool, len(accs))
 	for i := 0; i < len(accs); i++ {
 		acc := accs[i]
@@ -178,7 +200,7 @@ func validateGenesisStateAccounts(accs []GenesisAccount) (err error) {
 		}
 		addrMap[strAddr] = true
 	}
-	return
+	return nil
 }
 
 // GaiaAppGenState but with JSON
diff --git a/cmd/gaia/init/gentx.go b/cmd/gaia/init/gentx.go
index b68481b3b3..0a4eb80345 100644
--- a/cmd/gaia/init/gentx.go
+++ b/cmd/gaia/init/gentx.go
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ func accountInGenesis(genesisState app.GenesisState, key sdk.AccAddress, coins s
 			// Ensure account contains enough funds of default bond denom
 			if coins.AmountOf(bondDenom).GT(acc.Coins.AmountOf(bondDenom)) {
 				return fmt.Errorf(
-					"Account %s is in genesis, but the only has %s%s available to stake, not %s%s",
+					"Account %v is in genesis, but the only has %v%v available to stake, not %v%v",
 					key, acc.Coins.AmountOf(bondDenom), bondDenom, coins.AmountOf(bondDenom), bondDenom,
 				)
 			}
diff --git a/x/distribution/alias.go b/x/distribution/alias.go
index 34813abd6d..7f4457b35a 100644
--- a/x/distribution/alias.go
+++ b/x/distribution/alias.go
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ var (
 	InitialFeePool = types.InitialFeePool
 
 	NewGenesisState              = types.NewGenesisState
+	ValidateGenesis              = types.ValidateGenesis
 	DefaultGenesisState          = types.DefaultGenesisState
 	DefaultGenesisWithValidators = types.DefaultGenesisWithValidators
 
diff --git a/x/distribution/types/fee_pool.go b/x/distribution/types/fee_pool.go
index c036473307..2f921220c7 100644
--- a/x/distribution/types/fee_pool.go
+++ b/x/distribution/types/fee_pool.go
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package types
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
+
 	sdk "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types"
 )
 
@@ -31,3 +33,25 @@ func InitialFeePool() FeePool {
 		CommunityPool: DecCoins{},
 	}
 }
+
+// ValidateGenesis validates the fee pool for a genesis state
+func (f FeePool) ValidateGenesis() error {
+	if f.TotalValAccum.Accum.IsNegative() {
+		return fmt.Errorf("negative accum in distribution fee pool, is %v",
+			f.TotalValAccum.Accum.String())
+	}
+	if f.TotalValAccum.UpdateHeight < 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("negative update height in distribution fee pool, is %v",
+			f.TotalValAccum.UpdateHeight)
+	}
+	if f.ValPool.HasNegative() {
+		return fmt.Errorf("negative ValPool in distribution fee pool, is %v",
+			f.ValPool)
+	}
+	if f.CommunityPool.HasNegative() {
+		return fmt.Errorf("negative CommunityPool in distribution fee pool, is %v",
+			f.CommunityPool)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/x/distribution/types/genesis.go b/x/distribution/types/genesis.go
index 0577af4d33..a94eb7005f 100644
--- a/x/distribution/types/genesis.go
+++ b/x/distribution/types/genesis.go
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 package types
 
-import sdk "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types"
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	sdk "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types"
+)
 
 // the address for where distributions rewards are withdrawn to by default
 // this struct is only used at genesis to feed in default withdraw addresses
@@ -67,3 +71,26 @@ func DefaultGenesisWithValidators(valAddrs []sdk.ValAddress) GenesisState {
 		DelegationDistInfos: ddis,
 	}
 }
+
+// ValidateGenesis validates the genesis state of distribution genesis input
+func ValidateGenesis(data GenesisState) error {
+	if data.CommunityTax.IsNegative() || data.CommunityTax.GT(sdk.OneDec()) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("mint parameter CommunityTax should non-negative and "+
+			"less than one, is %s", data.CommunityTax.String())
+	}
+	if data.BaseProposerReward.IsNegative() {
+		return fmt.Errorf("mint parameter BaseProposerReward should be positive, is %s",
+			data.BaseProposerReward.String())
+	}
+	if data.BonusProposerReward.IsNegative() {
+		return fmt.Errorf("mint parameter BonusProposerReward should be positive, is %s",
+			data.BonusProposerReward.String())
+	}
+	if (data.BaseProposerReward.Add(data.BonusProposerReward)).
+		GT(sdk.OneDec()) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("mint parameters BaseProposerReward and "+
+			"BonusProposerReward cannot add to be greater than one, "+
+			"adds to %s", data.BaseProposerReward.Add(data.BonusProposerReward).String())
+	}
+	return data.FeePool.ValidateGenesis()
+}
diff --git a/x/gov/genesis.go b/x/gov/genesis.go
index 2096fc2ec2..341a4253b2 100644
--- a/x/gov/genesis.go
+++ b/x/gov/genesis.go
@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ func DefaultGenesisState() GenesisState {
 	}
 }
 
+// ValidateGenesis TODO https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/issues/3007
+func ValidateGenesis(data GenesisState) error {
+	return nil
+}
+
 // InitGenesis - store genesis parameters
 func InitGenesis(ctx sdk.Context, k Keeper, data GenesisState) {
 	err := k.setInitialProposalID(ctx, data.StartingProposalID)
diff --git a/x/slashing/genesis.go b/x/slashing/genesis.go
index 2a921af49a..05ac917817 100644
--- a/x/slashing/genesis.go
+++ b/x/slashing/genesis.go
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ func DefaultGenesisState() GenesisState {
 	}
 }
 
+// ValidateGenesis TODO https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/issues/3008
+func ValidateGenesis(data GenesisState) error {
+	return nil
+}
+
 // InitGenesis initialize default parameters
 // and the keeper's address to pubkey map
 func InitGenesis(ctx sdk.Context, keeper Keeper, data GenesisState, sdata types.GenesisState) {