diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 9464e110c6..13c6f330e1 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
 
   lint:
     <<: *defaults
-    parallelism: 4
+    parallelism: 1
     steps:
       - attach_workspace:
           at: /tmp/workspace
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ jobs:
 
   test_unit:
     <<: *defaults
-    parallelism: 4
+    parallelism: 1
     steps:
       - attach_workspace:
           at: /tmp/workspace
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ jobs:
 
   test_cover:
     <<: *defaults
-    parallelism: 4
+    parallelism: 1
     steps:
       - attach_workspace:
           at: /tmp/workspace
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d9a67d348d..915dec1971 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ FIXES
 * Retry on HTTP request failure in CLI tests, add option to retry tests in Makefile
 * Fixed bug where chain ID wasn't passed properly in x/bank REST handler
 * Fixed bug where `democli account` didn't decode the account data correctly
+* \#1343 - fixed unnecessary parallelism in CI
 
 ## 0.19.0