diff --git a/buf.gen.yaml b/buf.gen.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dc56781dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buf.gen.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# The version of the generation template.
+# Required.
+# The only currently-valid value is v1beta1.
+version: v1beta1
+
+# The plugins to run.
+plugins:
+  # The name of the plugin.
+  - name: gogofaster
+    # The the relative output directory.
+    out: proto
+    # Any options to provide to the plugin.
+    opt: Mgoogle/protobuf/timestamp.proto=github.com/gogo/protobuf/types,Mgoogle/protobuf/duration.proto=github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes/duration,plugins=grpc,paths=source_relative
diff --git a/buf.yaml b/buf.yaml
index d21611209..cc4aced57 100644
--- a/buf.yaml
+++ b/buf.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+version: v1beta1
+
 build:
   roots:
     - proto
diff --git a/scripts/protocgen.sh b/scripts/protocgen.sh
index 16f0ec733..51b1cc6d3 100755
--- a/scripts/protocgen.sh
+++ b/scripts/protocgen.sh
@@ -2,20 +2,7 @@
 
 set -eo pipefail
 
-proto_dirs=$(find ./proto -path -prune -o -name '*.proto' -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 dirname | sort | uniq)
-for dir in $proto_dirs; do
-  buf protoc \
-  -I "proto" \
-  -I "third_party/proto" \
-  --gogofaster_out=\
-Mgoogle/protobuf/timestamp.proto=github.com/gogo/protobuf/types,\
-Mgoogle/protobuf/duration.proto=github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes/duration,\
-plugins=grpc,paths=source_relative:. \
-  $(find "${dir}" -maxdepth 1 -name '*.proto')
-done
-
-cp -r ./tendermint/* ./proto/*
-rm -rf tendermint
+buf generate --path proto/tendermint
 
 mv ./proto/tendermint/abci/types.pb.go ./abci/types