diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 55e8e340ee3b62..7235d6c4c4136b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -7486,8 +7486,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "log",
  "percentage",
  "prost",
- "prost-build",
- "prost-types",
  "qualifier_attr",
  "rand 0.8.5",
  "rustc_version 0.4.0",
@@ -7505,6 +7503,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "solana-program-runtime",
  "solana-sdk",
  "solana-svm",
+ "solana-svm-conformance",
  "solana-system-program",
  "solana-type-overrides",
  "solana-vote",
diff --git a/programs/sbf/Cargo.lock b/programs/sbf/Cargo.lock
index 22f82e39f3e1d0..f7a07549d7c02c 100644
--- a/programs/sbf/Cargo.lock
+++ b/programs/sbf/Cargo.lock
@@ -6284,7 +6284,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "itertools 0.12.1",
  "log",
  "percentage",
- "prost-build",
  "qualifier_attr",
  "rustc_version",
  "serde",
diff --git a/svm/Cargo.toml b/svm/Cargo.toml
index c53f13c91c2706..79dca8542e36c8 100644
--- a/svm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/svm/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ bincode = { workspace = true }
 lazy_static = { workspace = true }
 libsecp256k1 = { workspace = true }
 prost = { workspace = true }
-prost-types = { workspace = true }
 rand = { workspace = true }
 solana-bpf-loader-program = { workspace = true }
 solana-compute-budget-program = { workspace = true }
@@ -46,12 +45,12 @@ solana-logger = { workspace = true }
 solana-sdk = { workspace = true, features = ["dev-context-only-utils"] }
 # See order-crates-for-publishing.py for using this unusual `path = "."`
 solana-svm = { path = ".", features = ["dev-context-only-utils"] }
+solana-svm-conformance = { workspace = true }
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
 targets = ["x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"]
 
 [build-dependencies]
-prost-build = { workspace = true }
 rustc_version = { workspace = true }
 
 [features]
diff --git a/svm/build.rs b/svm/build.rs
index 178c7d70b66c6a..e17ca70cb4718b 100644
--- a/svm/build.rs
+++ b/svm/build.rs
@@ -19,18 +19,4 @@ fn main() {
             println!("cargo:rustc-cfg=RUSTC_WITH_SPECIALIZATION");
         }
     }
-
-    let proto_base_path = std::path::PathBuf::from("proto");
-    let protos = ["context.proto", "invoke.proto", "sysvar.proto", "txn.proto"];
-    let protos_path: Vec<_> = protos
-        .iter()
-        .map(|name| proto_base_path.join(name))
-        .collect();
-
-    protos_path
-        .iter()
-        .for_each(|proto| println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed={}", proto.display()));
-
-    prost_build::compile_protos(protos_path.as_ref(), &[proto_base_path])
-        .expect("Failed to compile protobuf files");
 }
diff --git a/svm/tests/conformance.rs b/svm/tests/conformance.rs
index 865cf325cb2596..ad98dd8cb3708a 100644
--- a/svm/tests/conformance.rs
+++ b/svm/tests/conformance.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 use {
     crate::{
         mock_bank::{MockBankCallback, MockForkGraph},
-        proto::{InstrEffects, InstrFixture},
         transaction_builder::SanitizedTransactionBuilder,
     },
     lazy_static::lazy_static,
@@ -43,6 +42,7 @@ use {
             TransactionProcessingEnvironment,
         },
     },
+    solana_svm_conformance::proto::{InstrEffects, InstrFixture},
     std::{
         collections::{HashMap, HashSet},
         env,
@@ -55,9 +55,6 @@ use {
     },
 };
 
-mod proto {
-    include!(concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/org.solana.sealevel.v1.rs"));
-}
 mod mock_bank;
 mod transaction_builder;
 
@@ -151,7 +148,7 @@ fn run_from_folder(base_dir: &PathBuf, run_as_instr: &HashSet<OsString>) {
         let mut buffer = Vec::new();
         file.read_to_end(&mut buffer).expect("Failed to read file");
 
-        let fixture = proto::InstrFixture::decode(buffer.as_slice()).unwrap();
+        let fixture = InstrFixture::decode(buffer.as_slice()).unwrap();
         let execute_as_instr = run_as_instr.contains(&filename);
         run_fixture(fixture, filename, execute_as_instr);
     }