diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 1da07b1b..5ffe3508 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -183,3 +183,6 @@
 	url = https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p-dht.git
 	ignore = untracked
 	branch = master
+[submodule "vendor/nim-datastore"]
+	path = vendor/nim-datastore
+	url = https://github.com/status-im/nim-datastore.git
diff --git a/vendor/nim-datastore b/vendor/nim-datastore
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..d5d986c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/nim-datastore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit d5d986c0140a46e957d9a88df40b7ce7dad424f3