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Protocol Buffers, or Protobuf, is a Google-based methodology developed for serializing structured data. The system allows interface description language to describe the structure of different data types. This ensures that different distributed database networks — such as blockchain systems — are able to incorporate the use of more software programming languages to be more adaptable as their capabilities expand.