diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index e69de29..4810e25 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "vendor/nimbus-build-system"]
+	path = vendor/nimbus-build-system
+	url = https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-build-system.git
diff --git a/vendor/nimbus-build-system b/vendor/nimbus-build-system
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..e6c2c9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/nimbus-build-system
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit e6c2c9da39c2d368d9cf420ac22692e99715d22c