diff --git a/app/app.go b/app/app.go
index 4657d3e51..983bc4972 100644
--- a/app/app.go
+++ b/app/app.go
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ func NewNibiruApp(
 
 	app.initModuleManager(encodingConfig, skipGenesisInvariants)
 
+	app.setupUpgrades()
 	// NOTE: Any module instantiated in the module manager that is later modified
 	// must be passed by reference here.
 
diff --git a/app/upgrades.go b/app/upgrades.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5a57a758f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/upgrades.go
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+package app
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	upgradetypes "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/upgrade/types"
+
+	"github.com/NibiruChain/nibiru/app/upgrades"
+	"github.com/NibiruChain/nibiru/app/upgrades/v1_0_1"
+)
+
+var Upgrades = []upgrades.Upgrade{
+	v1_0_1.Upgrade,
+}
+
+func (app *NibiruApp) setupUpgrades() {
+	app.setUpgradeHandlers()
+	app.setUpgradeStoreLoaders()
+}
+
+func (app *NibiruApp) setUpgradeHandlers() {
+	for _, u := range Upgrades {
+		app.upgradeKeeper.SetUpgradeHandler(u.UpgradeName, u.CreateUpgradeHandler(app.mm, app.configurator))
+	}
+}
+
+func (app *NibiruApp) setUpgradeStoreLoaders() {
+	upgradeInfo, err := app.upgradeKeeper.ReadUpgradeInfoFromDisk()
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(fmt.Sprintf("failed to read upgrade info from disk: %s", err.Error()))
+	}
+
+	if app.upgradeKeeper.IsSkipHeight(upgradeInfo.Height) {
+		return
+	}
+
+	for _, u := range Upgrades {
+		if upgradeInfo.Name == u.UpgradeName {
+			app.SetStoreLoader(upgradetypes.UpgradeStoreLoader(upgradeInfo.Height, &u.StoreUpgrades))
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/app/upgrades/types.go b/app/upgrades/types.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a2cdde4b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/upgrades/types.go
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package upgrades
+
+import (
+	store "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/store/types"
+	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types/module"
+	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/upgrade/types"
+)
+
+type Upgrade struct {
+	UpgradeName string
+
+	CreateUpgradeHandler func(*module.Manager, module.Configurator) types.UpgradeHandler
+
+	StoreUpgrades store.StoreUpgrades
+}
diff --git a/app/upgrades/v1_0_1/constants.go b/app/upgrades/v1_0_1/constants.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..79444f0b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/upgrades/v1_0_1/constants.go
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+package v1_0_1
+
+import (
+	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/store/types"
+	sdk "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types"
+	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types/module"
+	upgradetypes "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/upgrade/types"
+
+	"github.com/NibiruChain/nibiru/app/upgrades"
+)
+
+const UpgradeName = "v1.0.1"
+
+// pretty much a no-op store upgrade to test the upgrade process and include the newer version of rocksdb
+var Upgrade = upgrades.Upgrade{
+	UpgradeName: UpgradeName,
+	CreateUpgradeHandler: func(mm *module.Manager, cfg module.Configurator) upgradetypes.UpgradeHandler {
+		return func(ctx sdk.Context, plan upgradetypes.Plan, fromVM module.VersionMap) (module.VersionMap, error) {
+			return mm.RunMigrations(ctx, cfg, fromVM)
+		}
+	},
+	StoreUpgrades: types.StoreUpgrades{},
+}