diff --git a/cmd/gaia/app/app.go b/cmd/gaia/app/app.go
index 77bfb9d149..ebd06f3308 100644
--- a/cmd/gaia/app/app.go
+++ b/cmd/gaia/app/app.go
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ func NewGaiaApp(logger log.Logger, db dbm.DB, traceStore io.Writer, baseAppOptio
 		keyFeeCollection: sdk.NewKVStoreKey("fee"),
 	}
 
+	// Set app.cdc so that Query has same result encoding
+	app.cdc = cdc
+
 	// define the accountMapper
 	app.accountMapper = auth.NewAccountMapper(
 		app.cdc,
diff --git a/x/auth/stdtx.go b/x/auth/stdtx.go
index 3a37dce595..6425ecf76d 100644
--- a/x/auth/stdtx.go
+++ b/x/auth/stdtx.go
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ type StdSignature struct {
 	Sequence         int64 `json:"sequence"`
 }
 
-// default custom logic for transaction decoding
+// logic for standard transaction decoding
 func DefaultTxDecoder(cdc *wire.Codec) sdk.TxDecoder {
 	return func(txBytes []byte) (sdk.Tx, sdk.Error) {
 		var tx = StdTx{}