diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b1c5815..18b39a9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -39,10 +39,11 @@ Ref: https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/
 
 ### API Breaking
 
-- (fees) [\#691](https://github.com/tharsis/evmos/pull/691) Internal Api audit.
+- (fees) [\#691](https://github.com/tharsis/evmos/pull/691) Internal API audit.
 
 ### Improvements
 
+- (cmd) [\#696](https://github.com/tharsis/evmos/pull/696) Set a custom tendermint node configuration on initialization.
 - (fees) [\#685](https://github.com/tharsis/evmos/pull/685) Internal Specification audit.
 
 ## [v5.0.0] - 2022-06-14
diff --git a/cmd/evmosd/root.go b/cmd/evmosd/root.go
index 7338d18..bb136e2 100644
--- a/cmd/evmosd/root.go
+++ b/cmd/evmosd/root.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"time"
 
 	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/simapp/params"
 	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/snapshots"
@@ -13,6 +14,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/spf13/cast"
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 
+	tmcfg "github.com/tendermint/tendermint/config"
 	tmcli "github.com/tendermint/tendermint/libs/cli"
 	"github.com/tendermint/tendermint/libs/log"
 	dbm "github.com/tendermint/tm-db"
@@ -91,9 +93,20 @@ func NewRootCmd() (*cobra.Command, params.EncodingConfig) {
 				return err
 			}
 
+			// override the app and tendermint configuration
 			customAppTemplate, customAppConfig := initAppConfig()
+			customTMConfig := initTendermintConfig()
 
-			return sdkserver.InterceptConfigsPreRunHandler(cmd, customAppTemplate, customAppConfig)
+			err = sdkserver.InterceptConfigsPreRunHandler(cmd, customAppTemplate, customAppConfig)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			// TODO: remove the lines below once Cosmos SDK v0.46 is released
+			serverCtx := sdkserver.GetServerContextFromCmd(cmd)
+			serverCtx.Config = customTMConfig
+
+			return sdkserver.SetCmdServerContext(cmd, serverCtx)
 		},
 	}
 
@@ -206,6 +219,15 @@ func initAppConfig() (string, interface{}) {
 	return customAppTemplate, srvCfg
 }
 
+// initTendermintConfig overrides the default Tendermint Config values.
+// It sets the timeout commit default to "1s" in order to get ~2s block times
+func initTendermintConfig() *tmcfg.Config {
+	cfg := tmcfg.DefaultConfig()
+
+	cfg.Consensus.TimeoutCommit = time.Second
+	return cfg
+}
+
 type appCreator struct {
 	encCfg params.EncodingConfig
 }