diff --git a/baseapp/baseapp.go b/baseapp/baseapp.go
index e5eb59538..70b1d299f 100644
--- a/baseapp/baseapp.go
+++ b/baseapp/baseapp.go
@@ -236,6 +236,15 @@ func (app *BaseApp) InitChain(req abci.RequestInitChain) (res abci.ResponseInitC
 	// NOTE: we don't commit, but BeginBlock for block 1
 	// starts from this deliverState
 
+	// TODO: d00d, tendermint sends nil, until that is fixed, we gotta
+	// read in the genesis file ourselves here
+	res = app.initChainer(ctx, req)
+	// TODO: handle error https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/issues/468
+
+	// XXX this commits everything and bumps the version.
+	// https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/issues/442#issuecomment-366470148
+	app.cms.Commit()
+
 	return
 }
 
diff --git a/glide.lock b/glide.lock
index 84aac00a8..d5db865da 100644
--- a/glide.lock
+++ b/glide.lock
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 hash: 89fd2ad769c283b6b29b02b84dd6459a40a47de5dfdfb15d7ced95d53ee9ec18
-updated: 2018-02-21T10:37:20.800957+01:00
+updated: 2018-02-21T12:53:23.608467+01:00
 imports:
 - name: github.com/btcsuite/btcd
   version: 50de9da05b50eb15658bb350f6ea24368a111ab7
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ imports:
 - name: github.com/tendermint/iavl
   version: 1a59ec0c82dc940c25339dd7c834df5cb76a95cb
 - name: github.com/tendermint/tendermint
-  version: edeebb7d202467179d1cf6372fd014d36bebf961
+  version: b24792244d6d03be5a566fd48572743faf3c02e0
   subpackages:
   - blockchain
   - cmd/tendermint/commands