diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fedf109d..90afae8b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ An '!' indicates a state machine breaking change.
 - ! (`x/stakers`) [#210](https://github.com/KYVENetwork/chain/pull/210) Shared Staking: Pool specific commission and stake fraction.
 - ! (`x/stakers`) [#211](https://github.com/KYVENetwork/chain/pull/211) Shared Staking: Maximum voting power per pool.
 
+### Improvements
+
+- (deps) [#213](https://github.com/KYVENetwork/chain/pull/213) Bump to CosmosSDK v0.50.11 and cleanup deps.
+
 ### Bug Fixes
 
 - ! [#207](https://github.com/KYVENetwork/chain/pull/207) Added test case for points.
diff --git a/x/stakers/keeper/exported_functions.go b/x/stakers/keeper/exported_functions.go
index 8b2286f1..a695746f 100644
--- a/x/stakers/keeper/exported_functions.go
+++ b/x/stakers/keeper/exported_functions.go
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package keeper
 
 import (
-	"context"
 	"sort"
 
 	"cosmossdk.io/errors"
@@ -365,32 +364,6 @@ func (k Keeper) Slash(ctx sdk.Context, poolId uint64, staker string, slashType s
 	})
 }
 
-// GOVERNANCE - BONDING
-// The next functions are used in our custom fork of the cosmos-sdk
-// which includes protocol staking into the governance.
-// The behavior is exactly the same as with normal cosmos-validators.
-
-// TotalBondedTokens returns all tokens which are currently bonded by the protocol
-// I.e. the sum of all delegation of all stakers that are currently participating
-// in at least one pool
-func (k Keeper) TotalBondedTokens(ctx context.Context) math.Int {
-	return math.ZeroInt()
-}
-
-// GetActiveValidators returns all protocol-node information which
-// are needed by the governance to calculate the voting powers.
-// The interface needs to correspond to github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/gov/types/v1.ValidatorGovInfo
-// But as there is no direct dependency in the cosmos-sdk-fork this value is passed as an interface{}
-func (k Keeper) GetActiveValidators(ctx context.Context) (validators []interface{}) {
-	return
-}
-
-// GetDelegations returns the address and the delegation amount of all active protocol-stakers the
-// delegator as delegated to. This is used to calculate the vote weight each delegator has.
-func (k Keeper) GetDelegations(ctx context.Context, delegator string) (validators []string, amounts []math.LegacyDec) {
-	return
-}
-
 func (k Keeper) DoesStakerExist(ctx sdk.Context, staker string) bool {
 	// ToDo remove after Delegation module got deleted
 	_, found := k.GetValidator(ctx, staker)