diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index a23dfd76b..2565ee2f6 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -14,3 +14,8 @@
 [submodule "external/gheap"]
 	path = external/gheap
 	url = https://github.com/valyala/gheap
+[submodule "external/lnprototest"]
+	path = external/lnprototest
+	url = https://github.com/niftynei/lnprototest.git
+	branch = nifty/small-edits
+	ignore = dirty
diff --git a/external/Makefile b/external/Makefile
index bb5d748f4..590e6c568 100644
--- a/external/Makefile
+++ b/external/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ SUBMODULES =					\
 	external/libwally-core			\
 	external/gheap				\
 	external/jsmn				\
-	external/libbacktrace
+	external/libbacktrace			\
+	external/lnprototest
 
 TOP := ../..
 ifdef BUILD
diff --git a/external/lnprototest b/external/lnprototest
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..14e4e1e05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/external/lnprototest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 14e4e1e058999988159373458589c5ecd647fdd2
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fc1e8e7dc..dda466cf5 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -38,4 +38,10 @@ pysocks ~= 1.7.1
 # Dependencies from pyln-spec
 # None
 
-
+# Dependencies from lnprototest
+pyln.bolt1==1.0.1.137
+pyln.bolt2==1.0.1.137
+pyln.bolt4==1.0.1.137
+pyln.bolt7==1.0.1.137
+coincurve==13.0.0
+crc32c