diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 88999132f9..bf65a4dd13 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ be used to retrieve the actual proposal `Content`. Also the `NewMsgSubmitProposa
   * (x/capability) [\#5828](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/5828) Capability module integration as outlined in [ADR 3 - Dynamic Capability Store](https://github.com/cosmos/tree/master/docs/architecture/adr-003-dynamic-capability-store.md).
   * (x/params) [\#6005](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/6005) Add new CLI command for querying raw x/params parameters by subspace and key.
   * (x/ibc) [\#5769](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/5769) [ICS 009 - Loopback Client](https://github.com/cosmos/ics/tree/master/spec/ics-009-loopback-client) subpackage
+* (x/auth) [\6350](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/6350) New sign-batch command to sign StdTx batch files.
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5841acd8cb..e8e3f62e7d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -48,13 +48,17 @@ mocks: $(MOCKS_DIR)
 $(MOCKS_DIR):
 	mkdir -p $(MOCKS_DIR)
 
-distclean:
+distclean: clean
 	rm -rf \
     gitian-build-darwin/ \
     gitian-build-linux/ \
     gitian-build-windows/ \
     .gitian-builder-cache/
-.PHONY: distclean
+
+clean:
+	rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)/
+
+.PHONY: distclean clean
 
 ###############################################################################
 ###                          Tools & Dependencies                           ###
diff --git a/simapp/cmd/simcli/main.go b/simapp/cmd/simcli/main.go
index 234e549887..ee849b9189 100644
--- a/simapp/cmd/simcli/main.go
+++ b/simapp/cmd/simcli/main.go
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ func txCmd(cdc *codec.Codec) *cobra.Command {
 		bankcmd.NewSendTxCmd(clientCtx),
 		flags.LineBreak,
 		authcmd.GetSignCommand(cdc),
+		authcmd.GetSignBatchCommand(cdc),
 		authcmd.GetMultiSignCommand(cdc),
 		authcmd.GetValidateSignaturesCommand(cdc),
 		flags.LineBreak,
diff --git a/x/auth/client/cli/cli_test.go b/x/auth/client/cli/cli_test.go
index 66a7cc9f28..b831ee348a 100644
--- a/x/auth/client/cli/cli_test.go
+++ b/x/auth/client/cli/cli_test.go
@@ -73,6 +73,57 @@ func TestCLIValidateSignatures(t *testing.T) {
 	f.Cleanup()
 }
 
+func TestCLISignBatch(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	f := cli.InitFixtures(t)
+
+	fooAddr := f.KeyAddress(cli.KeyFoo)
+	barAddr := f.KeyAddress(cli.KeyBar)
+
+	sendTokens := sdk.TokensFromConsensusPower(10)
+	success, generatedStdTx, stderr := bankcli.TxSend(f, fooAddr.String(), barAddr, sdk.NewCoin(cli.Denom, sendTokens), "--generate-only")
+
+	require.True(t, success)
+	require.Empty(t, stderr)
+
+	// Write the output to disk
+	batchfile, cleanup1 := tests.WriteToNewTempFile(t, strings.Repeat(generatedStdTx, 3))
+	t.Cleanup(cleanup1)
+
+	// sign-batch file - offline is set but account-number and sequence are not
+	success, _, stderr = testutil.TxSignBatch(f, cli.KeyFoo, batchfile.Name(), "--offline")
+	require.Contains(t, stderr, "required flag(s) \"account-number\", \"sequence\" not set")
+	require.False(t, success)
+
+	// sign-batch file
+	success, stdout, stderr := testutil.TxSignBatch(f, cli.KeyFoo, batchfile.Name())
+	require.True(t, success)
+	require.Empty(t, stderr)
+	require.Equal(t, 3, len(strings.Split(strings.Trim(stdout, "\n"), "\n")))
+
+	// sign-batch file
+	success, stdout, stderr = testutil.TxSignBatch(f, cli.KeyFoo, batchfile.Name(), "--signature-only")
+	require.True(t, success)
+	require.Empty(t, stderr)
+	require.Equal(t, 3, len(strings.Split(strings.Trim(stdout, "\n"), "\n")))
+
+	malformedFile, cleanup2 := tests.WriteToNewTempFile(t, fmt.Sprintf("%smalformed", generatedStdTx))
+	t.Cleanup(cleanup2)
+
+	// sign-batch file
+	success, stdout, stderr = testutil.TxSignBatch(f, cli.KeyFoo, malformedFile.Name())
+	require.False(t, success)
+	require.Equal(t, 1, len(strings.Split(strings.Trim(stdout, "\n"), "\n")))
+	require.Equal(t, "ERROR: cannot parse disfix JSON wrapper: invalid character 'm' looking for beginning of value\n", stderr)
+
+	// sign-batch file
+	success, stdout, _ = testutil.TxSignBatch(f, cli.KeyFoo, malformedFile.Name(), "--signature-only")
+	require.False(t, success)
+	require.Equal(t, 1, len(strings.Split(strings.Trim(stdout, "\n"), "\n")))
+
+	f.Cleanup()
+}
+
 func TestCLISendGenerateSignAndBroadcast(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 	f := cli.InitFixtures(t)
diff --git a/x/auth/client/cli/tx.go b/x/auth/client/cli/tx.go
index 742ab35471..132d61ed30 100644
--- a/x/auth/client/cli/tx.go
+++ b/x/auth/client/cli/tx.go
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ func GetTxCmd(cdc *codec.Codec) *cobra.Command {
 		GetMultiSignCommand(cdc),
 		GetSignCommand(cdc),
 		GetValidateSignaturesCommand(cdc),
+		GetSignBatchCommand(cdc),
 	)
 	return txCmd
 }
diff --git a/x/auth/client/cli/tx_sign.go b/x/auth/client/cli/tx_sign.go
index adc3ef8a29..dbeabf0560 100644
--- a/x/auth/client/cli/tx_sign.go
+++ b/x/auth/client/cli/tx_sign.go
@@ -1,16 +1,18 @@
 package cli
 
 import (
+	"bufio"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 	"github.com/spf13/viper"
 
+	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/client"
 	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/client/flags"
 	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/codec"
 	sdk "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types"
-	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/auth/client"
+	authclient "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/auth/client"
 	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/auth/types"
 )
 
@@ -20,6 +22,133 @@ const (
 	flagSigOnly  = "signature-only"
 )
 
+// GetSignBatchCommand returns the transaction sign-batch command.
+func GetSignBatchCommand(codec *codec.Codec) *cobra.Command {
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "sign-batch [file]",
+		Short: "Sign transaction batch files",
+		Long: `Sign batch files of transactions generated with --generate-only.
+The command processes list of transactions from file (one StdTx each line), generate
+signed transactions or signatures and print their JSON encoding, delimited by '\n'.
+As the signatures are generated, the command updates the sequence number accordingly.
+
+If the flag --signature-only flag is set, it will output a JSON representation
+of the generated signature only.
+
+The --offline flag makes sure that the client will not reach out to full node.
+As a result, the account and the sequence number queries will not be performed and
+it is required to set such parameters manually. Note, invalid values will cause
+the transaction to fail. The sequence will be incremented automatically for each
+transaction that is signed.
+
+The --multisig=<multisig_key> flag generates a signature on behalf of a multisig
+account key. It implies --signature-only.
+`,
+		PreRun: preSignCmd,
+		RunE:   makeSignBatchCmd(codec),
+		Args:   cobra.ExactArgs(1),
+	}
+
+	cmd.Flags().String(
+		flagMultisig, "",
+		"Address of the multisig account on behalf of which the transaction shall be signed",
+	)
+	cmd.Flags().String(flags.FlagOutputDocument, "", "The document will be written to the given file instead of STDOUT")
+	cmd.Flags().Bool(flagSigOnly, true, "Print only the generated signature, then exit")
+	cmd = flags.PostCommands(cmd)[0]
+	cmd.MarkFlagRequired(flags.FlagFrom)
+
+	return cmd
+}
+
+func makeSignBatchCmd(cdc *codec.Codec) func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+	return func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+		inBuf := bufio.NewReader(cmd.InOrStdin())
+		clientCtx := client.NewContextWithInput(inBuf).WithCodec(cdc)
+		txBldr := types.NewTxBuilderFromCLI(inBuf)
+		generateSignatureOnly := viper.GetBool(flagSigOnly)
+
+		var (
+			err          error
+			multisigAddr sdk.AccAddress
+			infile       = os.Stdin
+		)
+
+		// validate multisig address if there's any
+		if viper.GetString(flagMultisig) != "" {
+			multisigAddr, err = sdk.AccAddressFromBech32(viper.GetString(flagMultisig))
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+		}
+
+		// prepare output document
+		closeFunc, err := setOutputFile(cmd)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+
+		defer closeFunc()
+		clientCtx.WithOutput(cmd.OutOrStdout())
+
+		if args[0] != "-" {
+			infile, err = os.Open(args[0])
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+		}
+
+		scanner := authclient.NewBatchScanner(cdc, infile)
+
+		for sequence := txBldr.Sequence(); scanner.Scan(); sequence++ {
+			var stdTx types.StdTx
+
+			unsignedStdTx := scanner.StdTx()
+			txBldr = txBldr.WithSequence(sequence)
+
+			if multisigAddr.Empty() {
+				stdTx, err = authclient.SignStdTx(txBldr, clientCtx, viper.GetString(flags.FlagFrom), unsignedStdTx, false, true)
+			} else {
+				stdTx, err = authclient.SignStdTxWithSignerAddress(txBldr, clientCtx, multisigAddr, clientCtx.GetFromName(), unsignedStdTx, true)
+			}
+
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			json, err := getSignatureJSON(cdc, stdTx, clientCtx.Indent, generateSignatureOnly)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			cmd.Printf("%s\n", json)
+		}
+
+		if err := scanner.UnmarshalErr(); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+
+		return scanner.Err()
+	}
+}
+
+func setOutputFile(cmd *cobra.Command) (func(), error) {
+	outputDoc := viper.GetString(flags.FlagOutputDocument)
+	if outputDoc == "" {
+		cmd.SetOut(cmd.OutOrStdout())
+		return func() {}, nil
+	}
+
+	fp, err := os.OpenFile(outputDoc, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE|os.O_TRUNC, 0644)
+	if err != nil {
+		return func() {}, err
+	}
+
+	cmd.SetOut(fp)
+
+	return func() { fp.Close() }, nil
+}
+
 // GetSignCommand returns the transaction sign command.
 func GetSignCommand(codec *codec.Codec) *cobra.Command {
 	cmd := &cobra.Command{
@@ -89,13 +218,13 @@ func makeSignCmd(cdc *codec.Codec) func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error
 			if err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
-			newTx, err = client.SignStdTxWithSignerAddress(
+			newTx, err = authclient.SignStdTxWithSignerAddress(
 				txBldr, clientCtx, multisigAddr, clientCtx.GetFromName(), stdTx, clientCtx.Offline,
 			)
 			generateSignatureOnly = true
 		} else {
 			appendSig := viper.GetBool(flagAppend) && !generateSignatureOnly
-			newTx, err = client.SignStdTx(txBldr, clientCtx, clientCtx.GetFromName(), stdTx, appendSig, clientCtx.Offline)
+			newTx, err = authclient.SignStdTx(txBldr, clientCtx, clientCtx.GetFromName(), stdTx, appendSig, clientCtx.Offline)
 		}
 
 		if err != nil {
diff --git a/x/auth/client/testutil/helpers.go b/x/auth/client/testutil/helpers.go
index 20faccf95a..d04c51b9db 100644
--- a/x/auth/client/testutil/helpers.go
+++ b/x/auth/client/testutil/helpers.go
@@ -44,3 +44,11 @@ func TxMultisign(f *cli.Fixtures, fileName, name string, signaturesFiles []strin
 	)
 	return cli.ExecuteWriteRetStdStreams(f.T, cli.AddFlags(cmd, flags))
 }
+
+func TxSignBatch(f *cli.Fixtures, signer, fileName string, flags ...string) (bool, string, string) {
+	cmd := fmt.Sprintf("%s tx sign-batch %v --keyring-backend=test --from=%s %v", f.SimcliBinary, f.Flags(), signer, fileName)
+
+	return cli.ExecuteWriteRetStdStreams(f.T, cli.AddFlags(cmd, flags), clientkeys.DefaultKeyPass)
+}
+
+// DONTCOVER
diff --git a/x/auth/client/tx.go b/x/auth/client/tx.go
index a503854e75..d8dfb531b0 100644
--- a/x/auth/client/tx.go
+++ b/x/auth/client/tx.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"bufio"
 	"bytes"
 	"fmt"
+	"io"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
@@ -250,6 +251,40 @@ func ReadStdTxFromFile(cdc *codec.Codec, filename string) (stdTx authtypes.StdTx
 	return
 }
 
+// NewBatchScanner returns a new BatchScanner to read newline-delimited StdTx transactions from r.
+func NewBatchScanner(cdc *codec.Codec, r io.Reader) *BatchScanner {
+	return &BatchScanner{Scanner: bufio.NewScanner(r), cdc: cdc}
+}
+
+// BatchScanner provides a convenient interface for reading batch data such as a file
+// of newline-delimited JSON encoded StdTx.
+type BatchScanner struct {
+	*bufio.Scanner
+	stdTx        authtypes.StdTx
+	cdc          *codec.Codec
+	unmarshalErr error
+}
+
+// StdTx returns the most recent StdTx unmarshalled by a call to Scan.
+func (bs BatchScanner) StdTx() authtypes.StdTx { return bs.stdTx }
+
+// UnmarshalErr returns the first unmarshalling error that was encountered by the scanner.
+func (bs BatchScanner) UnmarshalErr() error { return bs.unmarshalErr }
+
+// Scan advances the Scanner to the next line.
+func (bs *BatchScanner) Scan() bool {
+	if !bs.Scanner.Scan() {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	if err := bs.cdc.UnmarshalJSON(bs.Bytes(), &bs.stdTx); err != nil && bs.unmarshalErr == nil {
+		bs.unmarshalErr = err
+		return false
+	}
+
+	return true
+}
+
 func populateAccountFromState(
 	txBldr authtypes.TxBuilder, clientCtx client.Context, addr sdk.AccAddress,
 ) (authtypes.TxBuilder, error) {
diff --git a/x/auth/client/tx_test.go b/x/auth/client/tx_test.go
index 740f87499b..3e4bd6adec 100644
--- a/x/auth/client/tx_test.go
+++ b/x/auth/client/tx_test.go
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
-
 	"github.com/tendermint/tendermint/crypto/ed25519"
 
 	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/codec"
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ func TestConfiguredTxEncoder(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestReadStdTxFromFile(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
 	cdc := codec.New()
 	sdk.RegisterCodec(cdc)
 
@@ -135,6 +136,54 @@ func TestReadStdTxFromFile(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Equal(t, decodedTx.Memo, "foomemo")
 }
 
+func TestBatchScanner_Scan(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	cdc := codec.New()
+	sdk.RegisterCodec(cdc)
+
+	batch1 := `{"msg":[],"fee":{"amount":[{"denom":"atom","amount":"150"}],"gas":"50000"},"signatures":[],"memo":"foomemo"}
+{"msg":[],"fee":{"amount":[{"denom":"atom","amount":"150"}],"gas":"10000"},"signatures":[],"memo":"foomemo"}
+{"msg":[],"fee":{"amount":[{"denom":"atom","amount":"1"}],"gas":"10000"},"signatures":[],"memo":"foomemo"}
+`
+	batch2 := `{"msg":[],"fee":{"amount":[{"denom":"atom","amount":"150"}],"gas":"50000"},"signatures":[],"memo":"foomemo"}
+malformed
+{"msg":[],"fee":{"amount":[{"denom":"atom","amount":"1"}],"gas":"10000"},"signatures":[],"memo":"foomemo"}
+`
+	batch3 := `{"msg":[],"fee":{"amount":[{"denom":"atom","amount":"150"}],"gas":"50000"},"signatures":[],"memo":"foomemo"}
+{"msg":[],"fee":{"amount":[{"denom":"atom","amount":"1"}],"gas":"10000"},"signatures":[],"memo":"foomemo"}`
+	batch4 := `{"msg":[],"fee":{"amount":[{"denom":"atom","amount":"150"}],"gas":"50000"},"signatures":[],"memo":"foomemo"}
+
+{"msg":[],"fee":{"amount":[{"denom":"atom","amount":"1"}],"gas":"10000"},"signatures":[],"memo":"foomemo"}
+`
+	tests := []struct {
+		name               string
+		batch              string
+		wantScannerError   bool
+		wantUnmarshalError bool
+		numTxs             int
+	}{
+		{"good batch", batch1, false, false, 3},
+		{"malformed", batch2, false, true, 1},
+		{"missing trailing newline", batch3, false, false, 2},
+		{"empty line", batch4, false, true, 1},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		tt := tt
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			scanner, i := NewBatchScanner(cdc, strings.NewReader(tt.batch)), 0
+			for scanner.Scan() {
+				_ = scanner.StdTx()
+				i++
+			}
+
+			require.Equal(t, tt.wantScannerError, scanner.Err() != nil)
+			require.Equal(t, tt.wantUnmarshalError, scanner.UnmarshalErr() != nil)
+			require.Equal(t, tt.numTxs, i)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 func compareEncoders(t *testing.T, expected sdk.TxEncoder, actual sdk.TxEncoder) {
 	msgs := []sdk.Msg{sdk.NewTestMsg(addr)}
 	tx := authtypes.NewStdTx(msgs, authtypes.StdFee{}, []authtypes.StdSignature{}, "")