diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 5ffe3508..ce6ffa7c 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -186,3 +186,6 @@
 [submodule "vendor/nim-datastore"]
 	path = vendor/nim-datastore
 	url = https://github.com/status-im/nim-datastore.git
+[submodule "vendor/nim-sqlite3-abi"]
+	path = vendor/nim-sqlite3-abi
+	url = https://github.com/arnetheduck/nim-sqlite3-abi.git
diff --git a/vendor/nim-sqlite3-abi b/vendor/nim-sqlite3-abi
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..fda455cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/nim-sqlite3-abi
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit fda455cfea2df707dde052034411ce63de218453