diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 87527b2669d..d645646b2d5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@
 - [11546](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/11546) - Add validation to market proposals metadata.
 - [11562](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/11562) - Update average notional metric with mark price at the end of the epoch and when calculating live score.
 - [11570](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/11570) - Include the required set of parties for evaluation for eligible entities reward.
-- [11576](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/11576) - Replace additional rebate validation with a cap. 
-- [11533](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/11533) - Suppose per party fee discounts in fee estimation. 
+- [11576](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/11576) - Replace additional rebate validation with a cap.
+- [11533](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/11533) - Suppose per party fee discounts in fee estimation.
+- [10716](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/10716) - Set Tendermint defaults during init.
 
 ### 🐛 Fixes
 
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@
 - [11544](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/11544) - Fix empty candles stream.
 - [11579](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/11579) - Spot calculate fee on amend, use order price if no amended price is provided.
 - [11585](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/11585) - Initialise rebate stats service in API.
-- [11592](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/11592) - Fix the order of calls at end of epoch between rebate engine and market tracker. 
+- [11592](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/11592) - Fix the order of calls at end of epoch between rebate engine and market tracker.
 
 ## 0.77.5
 
diff --git a/cmd/vega/commands/init.go b/cmd/vega/commands/init.go
index 1e9537ad758..1b15750733b 100644
--- a/cmd/vega/commands/init.go
+++ b/cmd/vega/commands/init.go
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
 	"time"
 
 	"code.vegaprotocol.io/vega/core/config"
@@ -127,7 +128,19 @@ func (opts *InitCmd) Execute(args []string) error {
 	if !initCmd.NoTendermint {
 		tmCfg := tmcfg.DefaultConfig()
 		tmCfg.SetRoot(os.ExpandEnv(initCmd.TendermintHome))
+		// add a few defaults
+		tmCfg.P2P.MaxPacketMsgPayloadSize = 16384
+		tmCfg.P2P.SendRate = 20000000
+		tmCfg.P2P.RecvRate = 20000000
+		tmCfg.Mempool.Size = 10000
+		tmCfg.Mempool.CacheSize = 20000
+		tmCfg.Consensus.TimeoutCommit = 0 * time.Second
+		tmCfg.Consensus.SkipTimeoutCommit = true
+		tmCfg.Consensus.CreateEmptyBlocksInterval = 1 * time.Second
+		tmCfg.Storage.DiscardABCIResponses = true
 		tmcfg.EnsureRoot(tmCfg.RootDir)
+		// then rewrite the config to apply the changes, EnsureRoot create the config, but with a default config
+		tmcfg.WriteConfigFile(filepath.Join(tmCfg.RootDir, tmcfg.DefaultConfigDir, tmcfg.DefaultConfigFileName), tmCfg)
 		if err := initTendermintConfiguration(output, logger, tmCfg); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("couldn't initialise tendermint %w", err)
 		}