diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 3fc9336..db50772 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "nim-faststreams"]
 	path = nim-faststreams
 	url = https://github.com/status-im/nim-faststreams
+[submodule "nim-waku"]
+	path = nim-waku
+	url = https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku
diff --git a/nim-waku b/nim-waku
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..d6fdeca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nim-waku
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit d6fdecafd8253caca2b648af8ccca0d0be43e7b4