diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index eaef5e5..35b8ac8 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -106,3 +106,6 @@
 [submodule "vendor/constantine"]
 	path = vendor/constantine
 	url = https://github.com/mratsim/constantine.git
+[submodule "vendor/nim-taskpools"]
+	path = vendor/nim-taskpools
+	url = https://github.com/status-im/nim-taskpools.git
diff --git a/vendor/nim-taskpools b/vendor/nim-taskpools
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..66585e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/nim-taskpools
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 66585e2e960b7695e48ea60377fb3aeac96406e8