diff --git a/.clang-format b/.clang-format
index dec78f0f78e0..7f662a4fd9f3 100644
--- a/.clang-format
+++ b/.clang-format
@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ PenaltyExcessCharacter: 1000000
 PenaltyReturnTypeOnItsOwnLine: 60
 PointerAlignment: Right
 RawStringFormats: 
-  - Delimiter:       pb
+  - Delimiters:
+    - pb
     Language:        TextProto
     BasedOnStyle:    google
 ReflowComments:  true
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 35e4705c04c6..e13dba1b850f 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -142,6 +142,8 @@ build, in which case we can fall back on `go mod tidy -v`.
 
 We use [Protocol Buffers](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers) along with [gogoproto](https://github.com/gogo/protobuf) to generate code for use in Cosmos-SDK.
 
+For formatting code in `.proto` files, you can run `make proto-format` command.
+
 For linting and checking breaking changes, we use [buf](https://buf.build/). There are two options for linting and to check if your changes will cause a break. The first is that you can install [buf](https://buf.build/docs/installation) locally, the commands for running buf after installing are `make proto-lint` and the breaking changes check will be `make proto-check-breaking`. If you do not want to install buf and have docker installed already then you can use these commands `make proto-lint-docker` and `make proto-check-breaking-docker`.
 
 To generate the protobuf stubs you must have `protoc` and `protoc-gen-gocosmos` installed. To install these tools run `make proto-tools`. After this step you will be able to run `make proto-gen` to generate the protobuf stubs.
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b9f0beebca9f..dd21bbf2da95 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -362,7 +362,11 @@ proto-gen:
 	@./scripts/protocgen.sh
 
 proto-format:
+	@echo "Formatting Protobuf files"
+	docker run -v $(shell pwd):/workspace \
+	--workdir /workspace tendermintdev/docker-build-proto \
 	find ./ -not -path "./third_party/*" -name *.proto -exec clang-format -i {} \;
+.PHONY: proto-format
 
 # This generates the SDK's custom wrapper for google.protobuf.Any. It should only be run manually when needed
 proto-gen-any:
diff --git a/contrib/devtools/proto-tools-installer.sh b/contrib/devtools/proto-tools-installer.sh
index fd287ddd8db3..f8bd2f621b82 100755
--- a/contrib/devtools/proto-tools-installer.sh
+++ b/contrib/devtools/proto-tools-installer.sh
@@ -119,32 +119,6 @@ f_install_protoc_gen_swagger() {
   f_print_done
 }
 
-f_install_clang_format() {
-  f_print_installing_with_padding clang-format
-
-  if which clang-format &>/dev/null ; then
-    echo -e "\talready installed. Skipping."
-    return 0
-  fi
-
-  case "${UNAME_S}" in
-  Linux)
-    if [ -e /etc/debian_version ]; then
-      echo -e "\tRun: sudo apt-get install clang-format" >&2
-    elif [ -e /etc/fedora-release ]; then
-      echo -e "\tRun: sudo dnf install clang" >&2
-    else
-      echo -e "\tRun (as root): subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-devtools-rpms ; yum install llvm-toolset-7" >&2
-    fi
-    ;;
-  Darwin)
-    echo "\tRun: brew install clang-format" >&2
-    ;;
-  *)
-    echo "\tunknown operating system. Skipping." >&2
-  esac
-}
-
 f_ensure_tools
 f_ensure_dirs
 f_install_protoc
@@ -152,4 +126,3 @@ f_install_buf
 f_install_protoc_gen_gocosmos
 f_install_protoc_gen_grpc_gateway
 f_install_protoc_gen_swagger
-f_install_clang_format