diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 0a62469db8..e69de29bb2 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "nim-waku"]
-	path = nim-waku
-	url = https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku.git
diff --git a/nim-waku b/nim-waku
deleted file mode 160000
index 3bc73f8239..0000000000
--- a/nim-waku
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 3bc73f8239237bbe1c8c82561cf292ce23a047ef