diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 293ec9a..d10b227 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "lnd_grpc_rust"
-version = "2.7.0"
+version = "2.8.0"
 authors = ["Martin Habovstiak <martin.habovstiak@gmail.com>", "Jonathan Zernik <yzernik@gmail.com>", "Nitesh Balusu <niteshbalusu@icloud.com>"]
 edition = "2018"
 description = "An async library implementing LND RPC via tonic_openssl and prost"
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ tower = "0.5.0"
 pretty_env_logger = "0.5.0"
 hex = "0.4.3"
 prost = { version = "0.10", features = ["prost-derive"] }
+serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 
 [build-dependencies]
 tonic-build = "0.7"
diff --git a/build.rs b/build.rs
index a6aaae8..e51131c 100644
--- a/build.rs
+++ b/build.rs
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
     tonic_build::configure()
         .build_client(true)
         .build_server(false)
+        .type_attribute(".", "#[derive(serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize)]")
         .compile(&proto_paths, &[dir])?;
+
     Ok(())
 }