diff --git a/types/address_test.go b/types/address_test.go
index 350b784ac0db..e7ddf02cf410 100644
--- a/types/address_test.go
+++ b/types/address_test.go
@@ -118,9 +118,11 @@ func (s *addressTestSuite) TestRandHexAccAddrConsistency() {
 	s.Require().Equal(types.ErrEmptyHexAddress, err)
 }
 
-// Test that the account address cache ignores the hex prefix setting, retrieving hex addresses from the cache.
-// This will cause the AccAddress.String() to print out unexpected prefixes if the config was changed between hex lookups.
+// This test is inherited from cosmos-sdk upstream
+// It used to test that the account address cache ignores the bech32 prefix setting, retrieving addresses from the cache.
 // See https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/issues/15317.
+// In heimdall, the test just checks that two addresses generated from the same key are equal.
+// Kept the test to reduce the diff with upstream.
 func (s *addressTestSuite) TestAddrCache() {
 	// Use a random key
 	pubBz := make([]byte, ed25519.PubKeySize)
diff --git a/x/evidence/types/evidence_test.go b/x/evidence/types/evidence_test.go
index 555ce3b66633..9c7eca679fd4 100644
--- a/x/evidence/types/evidence_test.go
+++ b/x/evidence/types/evidence_test.go
@@ -72,6 +72,16 @@ func TestEquivocationValidateBasic(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestEvidenceAddressConversion(t *testing.T) {
+	tmEvidence := NewCometMisbehavior(1, 100, time.Now(), comet.DuplicateVote,
+		validator{address: []byte{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, power: 100})
+
+	evidence := types.FromABCIEvidence(tmEvidence, address.NewHexCodec())
+	consAddr := evidence.GetConsensusAddress(address.NewHexCodec())
+	// Check the address is the same after conversion
+	require.Equal(t, tmEvidence.Validator().Address(), consAddr.Bytes())
+}
+
 type Misbehavior struct {
 	height           int64
 	time             time.Time