diff --git a/src/status_node_manager/rest/apis/waku/rest_waku_api.nim b/src/status_node_manager/rest/apis/waku/rest_waku_api.nim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b35e30b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/status_node_manager/rest/apis/waku/rest_waku_api.nim
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+import
+  # Nimble packages
+  chronicles,
+  presto/[route, segpath, server],
+  serialization, json_serialization,
+
+  # Local packages
+  ./types,
+  ../../[rest_constants, rest_serialization],
+  ../../../waku,
+  ../../../../../libs/waku_utils/waku_pair
+
+proc wakuApiError(status: HttpCode, msg: string): RestApiResponse =
+  let data =
+    block:
+      var default: string
+      try:
+        var stream = memoryOutput()
+        var writer = JsonWriter[RestJson].init(stream)
+        writer.beginRecord()
+        writer.writeField("message", msg)
+        writer.endRecord()
+        stream.getOutput(string)
+      except SerializationError:
+        default
+      except IOError:
+        default
+  RestApiResponse.error(status, data, "application/json")
+
+proc installWakuApiHandlers*(router: var RestRouter,
+                             wakuHost: ref WakuHost) =
+  router.api(MethodPost, "/waku/pair"
+      ) do (contentBody: Option[ContentBody]) -> RestApiResponse:
+    let wakuPairData =
+      block:
+        if contentBody.isNone():
+          return wakuApiError(Http404, EmptyRequestBodyError)
+        let dres = decodeBody(WakuPairRequestData, contentBody.get())
+
+        if dres.isErr():
+           return wakuApiError(Http400, InvalidWakuPairObjects)
+        dres.get()
+    try:
+      let wakuPairResult = await wakuPair(wakuHost[].rng,
+                                          wakuHost[].wakuNode,
+                                          wakuPairData.qr,
+                                          wakuPairData.qrMessageNameTag,
+                                          wakuPairData.pubSubTopic)
+
+      wakuHost.wakuNode = wakuPairResult.wakuNode
+      wakuHost.wakuHandshake = wakuPairResult.wakuHandshakeResult
+
+      notice "Waku pairing successful! Request fulfilled."
+      return RestApiResponse.response("Successful pairing", Http200, "application/json")
+    except:
+      return wakuApiError(Http500, "Internal Server Error")
+
diff --git a/src/status_node_manager/rest/apis/waku/rest_waku_calls.nim b/src/status_node_manager/rest/apis/waku/rest_waku_calls.nim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..46ce196
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/status_node_manager/rest/apis/waku/rest_waku_calls.nim
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+import
+  # Nimble packages
+  chronicles,
+  presto/[route, segpath, client],
+  serialization, json_serialization,
+  stew/byteutils,
+
+  # Local packages
+  ./types,
+  ../../common,
+  ../../rest_serialization
+
+proc wakuPairPlain*(body: WakuPairRequestData): RestPlainResponse {.
+    rest, endpoint: "/waku/pair",
+    meth: MethodPost.}
+
+proc wakuPair*(client: RestClientRef, wakuPairData: WakuPairRequestData) {.async.} =
+  notice "Initiating Waku Pair request..."
+  let
+    resp = await client.wakuPairPlain(wakuPairData)
+    respMsg = string.fromBytes(resp.data)
+  case resp.status:
+  of 200:
+    notice "Waku Pair request successful", body=respMsg
+  of 400, 401, 403, 404, 500:
+    notice "Waku Pair request failed", status=resp.status, body=respMsg
+  else:
+    raiseUnknownStatusError(resp)
+
diff --git a/src/status_node_manager/rest/apis/waku/types.nim b/src/status_node_manager/rest/apis/waku/types.nim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b0939e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/status_node_manager/rest/apis/waku/types.nim
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import waku/waku_core
+
+type WakuPairRequestData* = object
+  qr*: string
+  qrMessageNameTag*: string
+  pubSubTopic*: PubsubTopic
diff --git a/src/status_node_manager/rest/common.nim b/src/status_node_manager/rest/common.nim
index cf75c2d..d23eb68 100644
--- a/src/status_node_manager/rest/common.nim
+++ b/src/status_node_manager/rest/common.nim
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 import
   # Standard library
   std/[typetraits],
+  presto/[client],
 
   # Nimble packages
   chronos, confutils, presto, metrics,
   chronicles, stew/io2,
 
   # Project modules
-  ../config.nim
+  ../config
 
 func restValidate*(key: string, value: string): int =
   0
@@ -44,3 +45,8 @@ proc init*(T: type RestServerRef,
     let server = res.get()
     notice "Starting REST HTTP server", url = "http://" & $server.localAddress()
     server
+
+proc raiseUnknownStatusError*(resp: RestPlainResponse) {.
+     noreturn, raises: [RestError].} =
+  let msg = "Unknown response status error (" & $resp.status & ")"
+  raise newException(RestError, msg)
diff --git a/src/status_node_manager/rest/rest_constants.nim b/src/status_node_manager/rest/rest_constants.nim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..19fdb1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/status_node_manager/rest/rest_constants.nim
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+const
+  EmptyRequestBodyError* =
+    "Empty request body"
+  InvalidWakuPairObjects* =
+    "Invalid Waku pair objects found"
diff --git a/src/status_node_manager/rest/rest_serialization.nim b/src/status_node_manager/rest/rest_serialization.nim
index 1b79edc..21add7b 100644
--- a/src/status_node_manager/rest/rest_serialization.nim
+++ b/src/status_node_manager/rest/rest_serialization.nim
@@ -6,23 +6,42 @@ import
   chronos, stew/byteutils,
   presto/[route, segpath, server, client],
   json_serialization,
-  serialization
+  serialization,
+
+  # Local modules
+  ./apis/waku/types
 
 const ApplicationJsonMediaType* = MediaType.init("application/json")
 
 createJsonFlavor RestJson
 
 RestJson.useDefaultSerializationFor(
-  auto
+  WakuPairRequestData
   )
 
 type
   DecodeTypes* =
-    auto
+    WakuPairRequestData
 
 type
   EncodeTypes* =
-    auto
+    WakuPairRequestData
+
+proc jsonResponsePlain*(t: typedesc[RestApiResponse],
+                        data: auto): RestApiResponse =
+  let res =
+    block:
+      var default: seq[byte]
+      try:
+        var stream = memoryOutput()
+        var writer = JsonWriter[RestJson].init(stream)
+        writer.writeValue(data)
+        stream.getOutput(seq[byte])
+      except SerializationError:
+        default
+      except IOError:
+        default
+  RestApiResponse.response(res, Http200, "application/json")
 
 proc encodeBytes*[T: EncodeTypes](value: T,
                                   contentType: string): RestResult[seq[byte]] =