diff --git a/crawlers/deploy/deploy.bash b/crawlers/deploy/deploy.bash
index 6a3dd709..f5e80cbe 100755
--- a/crawlers/deploy/deploy.bash
+++ b/crawlers/deploy/deploy.bash
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ XDAI_MISSING_SERVICE_FILE="xdai-missing.service"
 XDAI_MISSING_TIMER_FILE="xdai-missing.timer"
 XDAI_STATISTICS_SERVICE_FILE="xdai-statistics.service"
 XDAI_STATISTICS_TIMER_FILE="xdai-statistics.timer"
+XDAI_MOONWORM_CRAWLER_SERVICE_FILE="xdai-moonworm-crawler.service"
 
 set -eu
 
@@ -203,3 +204,11 @@ cp "${SCRIPT_DIR}/${XDAI_STATISTICS_SERVICE_FILE}" "/etc/systemd/system/${XDAI_S
 cp "${SCRIPT_DIR}/${XDAI_STATISTICS_TIMER_FILE}" "/etc/systemd/system/${XDAI_STATISTICS_TIMER_FILE}"
 systemctl daemon-reload
 systemctl restart --no-block "${XDAI_STATISTICS_TIMER_FILE}"
+
+echo
+echo
+echo -e "${PREFIX_INFO} Replacing existing XDai moonworm crawler service definition with ${XDAI_MOONWORM_CRAWLER_SERVICE_FILE}"
+chmod 644 "${SCRIPT_DIR}/${XDAI_MOONWORM_CRAWLER_SERVICE_FILE}"
+cp "${SCRIPT_DIR}/${XDAI_MOONWORM_CRAWLER_SERVICE_FILE}" "/etc/systemd/system/${XDAI_MOONWORM_CRAWLER_SERVICE_FILE}"
+systemctl daemon-reload
+systemctl restart --no-block "${XDAI_MOONWORM_CRAWLER_SERVICE_FILE}"
diff --git a/crawlers/deploy/xdai-moonworm-crawler.service b/crawlers/deploy/xdai-moonworm-crawler.service
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ef8f3cc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crawlers/deploy/xdai-moonworm-crawler.service
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=XDai moonworm crawler
+After=network.target
+StartLimitIntervalSec=300
+StartLimitBurst=3
+
+[Service]
+User=ubuntu
+Group=www-data
+WorkingDirectory=/home/ubuntu/moonstream/crawlers/mooncrawl
+EnvironmentFile=/home/ubuntu/moonstream-secrets/app.env
+Restart=on-failure
+RestartSec=15s
+ExecStart=/home/ubuntu/moonstream-env/bin/python -m mooncrawl.moonworm_crawler.cli \
+    --access-id "${NB_CONTROLLER_ACCESS_ID}" \
+    crawl -b xdai --start 21704746
+SyslogIdentifier=xdai-moonworm-crawler
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
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