diff --git a/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm b/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm
index c5ad1c03a1..c4de3f74f2 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm
@@ -83073,6 +83073,30 @@ (define-public rust-value-trait-0.8
     (description "This package provides traits to deal with JSONesque values.")
     (license (list license:asl2.0 license:expat))))
 
+(define-public rust-varbincode-0.1
+  (package
+    (name "rust-varbincode")
+    (version "0.1.0")
+    (source
+     (origin
+       (method url-fetch)
+       (uri (crate-uri "varbincode" version))
+       (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
+       (sha256
+        (base32 "17vgwalm7a1lryjj565p4rnx5h3hr8vwm5504r92s7j41f8gl4mp"))))
+    (build-system cargo-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     `(#:cargo-inputs (("rust-byteorder" ,rust-byteorder-1)
+                       ("rust-leb128" ,rust-leb128-0.2)
+                       ("rust-serde" ,rust-serde-1))
+       #:cargo-development-inputs (("rust-serde-derive" ,rust-serde-derive-1))))
+    (home-page "https://github.com/wez/varbincode")
+    (synopsis "Binary encoder and decoder with variable length integer")
+    (description
+     "This package provides a binary encoder / decoder with variable length
+integer encoding implementation in Rust.")
+    (license license:expat)))
+
 (define-public rust-vcpkg-0.2
   (package
     (name "rust-vcpkg")