diff --git a/api/go.mod b/api/go.mod
index da03034d6e..c0267748ed 100644
--- a/api/go.mod
+++ b/api/go.mod
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ module github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/api
 go 1.17
 
 require (
-	github.com/cosmos/cosmos-proto v1.0.0-alpha1
+	github.com/cosmos/cosmos-proto v1.0.0-alpha4
 	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.27.1
 )
diff --git a/api/go.sum b/api/go.sum
index 8a393e0007..fc48d99a08 100644
--- a/api/go.sum
+++ b/api/go.sum
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-github.com/cosmos/cosmos-proto v0.0.0-20211123144845-528f5002c9f8 h1:JOVLjm4qgBMnjZIciFqfFMzeIIuJTOXdlpzJdvXQbVA=
-github.com/cosmos/cosmos-proto v0.0.0-20211123144845-528f5002c9f8/go.mod h1:msdDWOvfStHLG+Z2y2SJ0dcqimZ2vc8M1MPnZ4jOF7U=
-github.com/cosmos/cosmos-proto v1.0.0-alpha1 h1:1taNmovbd2WlO6zfaJTRhQ21DjWROiepfWbiDDLKMWQ=
-github.com/cosmos/cosmos-proto v1.0.0-alpha1/go.mod h1:msdDWOvfStHLG+Z2y2SJ0dcqimZ2vc8M1MPnZ4jOF7U=
+github.com/cosmos/cosmos-proto v1.0.0-alpha4 h1:96Imv2begXbNTj/SQyPftxKOCgy4ANwbPGafLHTlGoc=
+github.com/cosmos/cosmos-proto v1.0.0-alpha4/go.mod h1:msdDWOvfStHLG+Z2y2SJ0dcqimZ2vc8M1MPnZ4jOF7U=
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.0/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
 github.com/golang/protobuf v1.5.0/go.mod h1:FsONVRAS9T7sI+LIUmWTfcYkHO4aIWwzhcaSAoJOfIk=
 github.com/google/go-cmp v0.5.5 h1:Khx7svrCpmxxtHBq5j2mp/xVjsi8hQMfNLvJFAlrGgU=