diff --git a/server/config/toml.go b/server/config/toml.go
index f06ece5071f..016cd36643e 100644
--- a/server/config/toml.go
+++ b/server/config/toml.go
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ stop-node-on-err = {{ .Streaming.ABCI.StopNodeOnErr }}
 
 [mempool]
 # Setting max-txs to 0 will allow for a unbounded amount of transactions in the mempool.
-# Setting max_txs to negative 1 (-1) will disable transactions from being inserted into the mempool.
+# Setting max_txs to negative 1 (-1) will disable transactions from being inserted into the mempool (no-op mempool).
 # Setting max_txs to a positive number (> 0) will limit the number of transactions in the mempool, by the specified amount.
 #
 # Note, this configuration only applies to SDK built-in app-side mempool
diff --git a/tools/confix/data/v0.50-app.toml b/tools/confix/data/v0.50-app.toml
index 9c801a2d74a..058f43ec4be 100644
--- a/tools/confix/data/v0.50-app.toml
+++ b/tools/confix/data/v0.50-app.toml
@@ -227,9 +227,9 @@ stop-node-on-err = true
 
 [mempool]
 # Setting max-txs to 0 will allow for a unbounded amount of transactions in the mempool.
-# Setting max_txs to negative 1 (-1) will disable transactions from being inserted into the mempool.
+# Setting max_txs to negative 1 (-1) will disable transactions from being inserted into the mempool (no-op mempool).
 # Setting max_txs to a positive number (> 0) will limit the number of transactions in the mempool, by the specified amount.
 #
 # Note, this configuration only applies to SDK built-in app-side mempool
 # implementations.
-max-txs = 5000
+max-txs = -1
diff --git a/tools/confix/data/v0.51-app.toml b/tools/confix/data/v0.51-app.toml
index f725f5bbc5b..1809e606dba 100644
--- a/tools/confix/data/v0.51-app.toml
+++ b/tools/confix/data/v0.51-app.toml
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ stop-node-on-err = true
 #
 # Note, this configuration only applies to SDK built-in app-side mempool
 # implementations.
-max-txs = 5000
+max-txs = -1
 
 [custom]