diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2c839c7c..0da2a630 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 incremented upon a breaking change and the patch version will be incremented for features.
 
 ## [dev] - Unreleased
+- del/remove localnet subcommand ([178](https://github.com/Ackee-Blockchain/trident/pull/178))
 - feat/create AccountsSnapshots derive macro for Snapshots creation ([#177](https://github.com/Ackee-Blockchain/trident/pull/177))
 - del/remove unnecessary fuzzing feature as trident is mainly fuzzer ([#176](https://github.com/Ackee-Blockchain/trident/pull/176))
 - feat/fuzzing moved to separate crate trident-fuzz ([#175](https://github.com/Ackee-Blockchain/trident/pull/175))
diff --git a/crates/cli/src/command.rs b/crates/cli/src/command.rs
index 44694d4e..a6f4a400 100644
--- a/crates/cli/src/command.rs
+++ b/crates/cli/src/command.rs
@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@ pub use fuzz::{fuzz, FuzzCommand};
 mod test;
 pub use test::test;
 
-mod localnet;
-pub use localnet::localnet;
-
 mod init;
 pub use init::{init, TestsType};
 
diff --git a/crates/cli/src/command/localnet.rs b/crates/cli/src/command/localnet.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index cae67c5a..00000000
--- a/crates/cli/src/command/localnet.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-use anyhow::Error;
-use fehler::throws;
-use tokio::signal;
-use trident_client::___private::Commander;
-
-#[throws]
-pub async fn localnet() {
-    let commander = Commander::new();
-    let validator_handle = commander.start_localnet().await?;
-
-    // wait for SIGINT (^C) signal
-    signal::ctrl_c().await.expect("failed to listen for event");
-
-    validator_handle.stop_and_remove_ledger().await?;
-}
diff --git a/crates/cli/src/lib.rs b/crates/cli/src/lib.rs
index f1173b00..d3859333 100644
--- a/crates/cli/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/cli/src/lib.rs
@@ -45,8 +45,6 @@ enum Command {
         #[clap(subcommand)]
         subcmd: FuzzCommand,
     },
-    /// Run local test validator
-    Localnet,
     /// Initialize test environment
     Init {
         /// Specifies the types of tests for which the frameworks should be initialized.
@@ -66,7 +64,6 @@ pub async fn start() {
         Command::KeyPair { subcmd } => command::keypair(subcmd)?,
         Command::Test { root } => command::test(root).await?,
         Command::Fuzz { root, subcmd } => command::fuzz(root, subcmd).await?,
-        Command::Localnet => command::localnet().await?,
         Command::Init { tests_type } => command::init(tests_type).await?,
         Command::Clean => command::clean().await?,
     }