diff --git a/config/config.go b/config/config.go
index 521497cf52..41864f8b4c 100644
--- a/config/config.go
+++ b/config/config.go
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ type DaemonConfig struct {
 	FsDriver         string `toml:"fs_driver"`
 	ThreadsNumber    int    `toml:"threads_number"`
 	LogRotationSize  int    `toml:"log_rotation_size"`
+	ChunkDedup       bool   `toml:"chunk_dedup"`
 }
 
 type LoggingConfig struct {
@@ -326,6 +327,10 @@ func ParseParameters(args *flags.Args, cfg *SnapshotterConfig) error {
 		daemonConfig.FsDriver = args.FsDriver
 	}
 
+	if args.ChunkDedup {
+		daemonConfig.ChunkDedup = args.ChunkDedup
+	}
+
 	// --- cache manager configuration
 	// empty
 
diff --git a/config/daemonconfig/daemonconfig.go b/config/daemonconfig/daemonconfig.go
index 0ecb22344c..6b0def86cd 100644
--- a/config/daemonconfig/daemonconfig.go
+++ b/config/daemonconfig/daemonconfig.go
@@ -38,19 +38,21 @@ type DaemonConfig interface {
 }
 
 // Daemon configurations factory
-func NewDaemonConfig(fsDriver, path string) (DaemonConfig, error) {
+func NewDaemonConfig(fsDriver, path string, isDedup bool) (DaemonConfig, error) {
 	switch fsDriver {
 	case config.FsDriverFscache:
 		cfg, err := LoadFscacheConfig(path)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
+		cfg.Config.DedupConfig.Enable = isDedup
 		return cfg, nil
 	case config.FsDriverFusedev:
 		cfg, err := LoadFuseConfig(path)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
+		cfg.Device.Dedup.Enable = isDedup
 		return cfg, nil
 	default:
 		return nil, errors.Errorf("unsupported, fs driver %q", fsDriver)
@@ -118,6 +120,10 @@ type DeviceConfig struct {
 			DisableIndexedMap bool   `json:"disable_indexed_map"`
 		} `json:"config"`
 	} `json:"cache"`
+	Dedup struct {
+		Enable  bool   `json:"enable"`
+		WorkDir string `json:"work_dir"`
+	} `json:"dedup"`
 }
 
 // For nydusd as FUSE daemon. Serialize Daemon info and persist to a json file
diff --git a/config/daemonconfig/fscache.go b/config/daemonconfig/fscache.go
index cc7bcde081..b51fb5199b 100644
--- a/config/daemonconfig/fscache.go
+++ b/config/daemonconfig/fscache.go
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ type FscacheDaemonConfig struct {
 		CacheConfig struct {
 			WorkDir string `json:"work_dir"`
 		} `json:"cache_config"`
+		DedupConfig struct {
+			Enable  bool   `json:"enable"`
+			WorkDir string `json:"work_dir"`
+		} `json:"dedup_config"`
 		BlobPrefetchConfig BlobPrefetchConfig `json:"prefetch_config"`
 		MetadataPath       string             `json:"metadata_path"`
 	} `json:"config"`
diff --git a/config/global.go b/config/global.go
index 56c7ce294f..78d7a42001 100644
--- a/config/global.go
+++ b/config/global.go
@@ -111,6 +111,10 @@ func GetDaemonProfileCPUDuration() int64 {
 	return globalConfig.origin.SystemControllerConfig.DebugConfig.ProfileDuration
 }
 
+func GetChunkDedup() bool {
+	return globalConfig.origin.DaemonConfig.ChunkDedup
+}
+
 func ProcessConfigurations(c *SnapshotterConfig) error {
 	if c.LoggingConfig.LogDir == "" {
 		c.LoggingConfig.LogDir = filepath.Join(c.Root, logging.DefaultLogDirName)
diff --git a/internal/flags/flags.go b/internal/flags/flags.go
index ef28387081..98f7bd529c 100644
--- a/internal/flags/flags.go
+++ b/internal/flags/flags.go
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ type Args struct {
 	LogToStdout           bool
 	LogToStdoutCount      int
 	PrintVersion          bool
+	ChunkDedup            bool
 }
 
 type Flags struct {
@@ -97,6 +98,12 @@ func buildFlags(args *Args) []cli.Flag {
 			Usage:       "print version and build information",
 			Destination: &args.PrintVersion,
 		},
+		&cli.BoolFlag{
+			Name:        "chunk-dedup",
+			Value:       false,
+			Usage:       "(experiment)whether to enable local cas chunk dedup",
+			Destination: &args.ChunkDedup,
+		},
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/daemon/config.go b/pkg/daemon/config.go
index 726fefefe8..72602dafaf 100644
--- a/pkg/daemon/config.go
+++ b/pkg/daemon/config.go
@@ -54,6 +54,13 @@ func WithLogToStdout(logToStdout bool) NewDaemonOpt {
 	}
 }
 
+func WithChunkDedup(chunkDedup bool) NewDaemonOpt {
+	return func(d *Daemon) error {
+		d.States.ChunkDedup = chunkDedup
+		return nil
+	}
+}
+
 func WithLogLevel(logLevel string) NewDaemonOpt {
 	return func(d *Daemon) error {
 		if logLevel == "" {
diff --git a/pkg/daemon/daemon.go b/pkg/daemon/daemon.go
index fae78616ee..ceda7bced5 100644
--- a/pkg/daemon/daemon.go
+++ b/pkg/daemon/daemon.go
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ type States struct {
 	// Where the configuration file resides, all rafs instances share the same configuration template
 	ConfigDir      string
 	SupervisorPath string
+	ChunkDedup     bool
 }
 
 // TODO: Record queried nydusd state
@@ -244,12 +245,13 @@ func (d *Daemon) sharedFusedevMount(rafs *Rafs) error {
 		return errors.Wrapf(err, "mount instance %s", rafs.SnapshotID)
 	}
 
+	configPath := d.ConfigFile(rafs.SnapshotID)
 	bootstrap, err := rafs.BootstrapFile()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	c, err := daemonconfig.NewDaemonConfig(d.States.FsDriver, d.ConfigFile(rafs.SnapshotID))
+	c, err := daemonconfig.NewDaemonConfig(d.States.FsDriver, d.ConfigFile(rafs.SnapshotID), d.States.ChunkDedup)
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.Wrapf(err, "Failed to reload instance configuration %s",
 			d.ConfigFile(rafs.SnapshotID))
@@ -260,6 +262,15 @@ func (d *Daemon) sharedFusedevMount(rafs *Rafs) error {
 		return errors.Wrap(err, "dump instance configuration")
 	}
 
+	// static dedup bootstrap
+	if d.States.ChunkDedup {
+		log.L.Infoln("sharedFusedevMount, cfg = ", cfg)
+		bootstrap, err = rafs.DedupBootstrap(bootstrap, configPath)
+		if err != nil {
+			return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to dedup rafs bootstrap")
+		}
+	}
+
 	err = client.Mount(rafs.RelaMountpoint(), bootstrap, cfg)
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.Wrapf(err, "mount rafs instance")
@@ -279,7 +290,8 @@ func (d *Daemon) sharedErofsMount(rafs *Rafs) error {
 		return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to create fscache work dir %s", rafs.FscacheWorkDir())
 	}
 
-	c, err := daemonconfig.NewDaemonConfig(d.States.FsDriver, d.ConfigFile(rafs.SnapshotID))
+	configPath := d.ConfigFile(rafs.SnapshotID)
+	c, err := daemonconfig.NewDaemonConfig(d.States.FsDriver, configPath, d.States.ChunkDedup)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.L.Errorf("Failed to reload daemon configuration %s, %s", d.ConfigFile(rafs.SnapshotID), err)
 		return err
@@ -309,6 +321,14 @@ func (d *Daemon) sharedErofsMount(rafs *Rafs) error {
 	rafs.AddAnnotation(AnnoFsCacheDomainID, cfg.DomainID)
 	rafs.AddAnnotation(AnnoFsCacheID, fscacheID)
 
+	if d.States.ChunkDedup {
+		log.L.Infoln("sharedErofsMount, cfg = ", cfg)
+		bootstrapPath, err = rafs.DedupBootstrap(bootstrapPath, configPath)
+		if err != nil {
+			return errors.Wrapf(err, "dedup rafs bootstrap")
+		}
+	}
+
 	if err := erofs.Mount(bootstrapPath, cfg.DomainID, fscacheID, mountPoint); err != nil {
 		if !errdefs.IsErofsMounted(err) {
 			return errors.Wrapf(err, "mount erofs to %s", mountPoint)
diff --git a/pkg/daemon/rafs.go b/pkg/daemon/rafs.go
index 5531ae4fec..f94f83d48e 100644
--- a/pkg/daemon/rafs.go
+++ b/pkg/daemon/rafs.go
@@ -7,15 +7,19 @@
 package daemon
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
 	"os"
+	"os/exec"
 	"path"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
 	"sync"
 
 	"github.com/mohae/deepcopy"
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 
 	"github.com/containerd/containerd/errdefs"
+	"github.com/containerd/containerd/log"
 
 	"github.com/containerd/nydus-snapshotter/config"
 )
@@ -195,3 +199,35 @@ func (r *Rafs) BootstrapFile() (string, error) {
 
 	return "", errors.Wrapf(errdefs.ErrNotFound, "bootstrap %s", bootstrap)
 }
+
+func buildDedupCommand(bootstrapPath, configPath, nydusImagePath string) *exec.Cmd {
+	args := []string{
+		"dedup",
+		"--bootstrap", bootstrapPath,
+		"--config", configPath,
+	}
+
+	log.L.Infof("start bootstrap dedup: %s %s", nydusImagePath, strings.Join(args, " "))
+
+	cmd := exec.Command(nydusImagePath, args...)
+
+	return cmd
+
+}
+
+func (r *Rafs) DedupBootstrap(bootstrapPath, configPath string) (string, error) {
+	nydusImagePath, err := exec.LookPath("nydus-image")
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Println(err.Error())
+		return "", err
+	}
+
+	cmd := buildDedupCommand(bootstrapPath, configPath, nydusImagePath)
+	_, err = cmd.CombinedOutput()
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+
+	bootstrapPath += ".dedup"
+	return bootstrapPath, err
+}
diff --git a/pkg/daemon/rafs_test.go b/pkg/daemon/rafs_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..68563022b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/daemon/rafs_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package daemon
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestBuildDedupCommand(t *testing.T) {
+	bootstrapPath := "/path/to/bootstrap"
+	configPath := "/path/to/config.json"
+	nydusImagePath := "/path/to/nydus-image"
+
+	cmd := buildDedupCommand(bootstrapPath, configPath, nydusImagePath)
+
+	expectedArgs := []string{
+		"dedup",
+		"--bootstrap", bootstrapPath,
+		"--config", configPath,
+	}
+	expectedCmd := fmt.Sprintf("%s %s", nydusImagePath, strings.Join(expectedArgs, " "))
+
+	if expectedCmd != cmd.String() {
+		t.Errorf("unexpected command string '%s'", cmd.String())
+	}
+}
diff --git a/pkg/filesystem/config.go b/pkg/filesystem/config.go
index 773af0bac6..7fb08ebf3f 100644
--- a/pkg/filesystem/config.go
+++ b/pkg/filesystem/config.go
@@ -88,3 +88,10 @@ func WithEnableStargz(enable bool) NewFSOpt {
 		return nil
 	}
 }
+
+func WithChunkDedup(chunkDedup bool) NewFSOpt {
+	return func(fs *Filesystem) error {
+		fs.chunkDedup = chunkDedup
+		return nil
+	}
+}
diff --git a/pkg/filesystem/fs.go b/pkg/filesystem/fs.go
index 85046841a9..8a6fdd277e 100644
--- a/pkg/filesystem/fs.go
+++ b/pkg/filesystem/fs.go
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ type Filesystem struct {
 	verifier             *signature.Verifier
 	nydusImageBinaryPath string
 	rootMountpoint       string
+	chunkDedup           bool
 }
 
 // NewFileSystem initialize Filesystem instance
@@ -587,6 +588,7 @@ func (fs *Filesystem) createDaemon(fsManager *manager.Manager, daemonMode config
 		daemon.WithNydusdThreadNum(config.GetDaemonThreadsNumber()),
 		daemon.WithFsDriver(fsManager.FsDriver),
 		daemon.WithDaemonMode(daemonMode),
+		daemon.WithChunkDedup(config.GetChunkDedup()),
 	}
 
 	if mountpoint != "" {
diff --git a/pkg/manager/daemon_adaptor.go b/pkg/manager/daemon_adaptor.go
index 62ce6e2d04..80163c59d1 100644
--- a/pkg/manager/daemon_adaptor.go
+++ b/pkg/manager/daemon_adaptor.go
@@ -32,6 +32,21 @@ func (m *Manager) StartDaemon(d *daemon.Daemon) error {
 		return errors.Wrapf(err, "create command for daemon %s", d.ID())
 	}
 
+	// dedup bootstrap, not dedup bootstrap for shared daemon
+	log.L.Infoln("StartDaemon dedup = ", d.States.ChunkDedup)
+	if d.States.ChunkDedup && !d.IsSharedDaemon() {
+		rafs := d.Instances.Head()
+		if rafs == nil {
+			return errors.Wrapf(errdefs.ErrNotFound, "daemon %s no rafs instance associated", d.ID())
+		}
+		configPath := d.ConfigFile("")
+		bootstrap, _ := rafs.BootstrapFile()
+		_, err = rafs.DedupBootstrap(bootstrap, configPath)
+		if err != nil {
+			return errors.Errorf("fail to dedup bootstrap ")
+		}
+	}
+
 	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -145,6 +160,10 @@ func (m *Manager) BuildDaemonCommand(d *daemon.Daemon, bin string, upgrade bool)
 				return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "locate bootstrap %s", bootstrap)
 			}
 
+			if d.States.ChunkDedup {
+				bootstrap += ".dedup"
+			}
+
 			cmdOpts = append(cmdOpts,
 				command.WithConfig(d.ConfigFile("")),
 				command.WithBootstrap(bootstrap),
diff --git a/pkg/manager/manager.go b/pkg/manager/manager.go
index 2ace2fb296..bca2b21185 100644
--- a/pkg/manager/manager.go
+++ b/pkg/manager/manager.go
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ func (m *Manager) Recover(ctx context.Context,
 		}
 
 		if d.States.FsDriver == config.FsDriverFusedev {
-			cfg, err := daemonconfig.NewDaemonConfig(d.States.FsDriver, d.ConfigFile(""))
+			cfg, err := daemonconfig.NewDaemonConfig(d.States.FsDriver, d.ConfigFile(""), d.States.ChunkDedup)
 			if err != nil {
 				log.L.Errorf("Failed to reload daemon configuration %s, %s", d.ConfigFile(""), err)
 				return err
diff --git a/snapshot/snapshot.go b/snapshot/snapshot.go
index 007ec95755..0d34682b56 100644
--- a/snapshot/snapshot.go
+++ b/snapshot/snapshot.go
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ func NewSnapshotter(ctx context.Context, cfg *config.SnapshotterConfig) (snapsho
 		return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "initialize image verifier")
 	}
 
-	daemonConfig, err := daemonconfig.NewDaemonConfig(config.GetFsDriver(), cfg.DaemonConfig.NydusdConfigPath)
+	daemonConfig, err := daemonconfig.NewDaemonConfig(config.GetFsDriver(), cfg.DaemonConfig.NydusdConfigPath, cfg.DaemonConfig.ChunkDedup)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "load daemon configuration")
 	}
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ func NewSnapshotter(ctx context.Context, cfg *config.SnapshotterConfig) (snapsho
 		filesystem.WithVerifier(verifier),
 		filesystem.WithRootMountpoint(config.GetRootMountpoint()),
 		filesystem.WithEnableStargz(cfg.Experimental.EnableStargz),
+		filesystem.WithChunkDedup(cfg.DaemonConfig.ChunkDedup),
 	}
 
 	cacheConfig := &cfg.CacheManagerConfig
@@ -782,7 +783,7 @@ func (o *snapshotter) remoteMountWithExtraOptions(ctx context.Context, s storage
 
 	var c daemonconfig.DaemonConfig
 	if daemon.IsSharedDaemon() {
-		c, err = daemonconfig.NewDaemonConfig(daemon.States.FsDriver, daemon.ConfigFile(instance.SnapshotID))
+		c, err = daemonconfig.NewDaemonConfig(daemon.States.FsDriver, daemon.ConfigFile(instance.SnapshotID), daemon.States.ChunkDedup)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "Failed to load instance configuration %s",
 				daemon.ConfigFile(instance.SnapshotID))
@@ -811,6 +812,13 @@ func (o *snapshotter) remoteMountWithExtraOptions(ctx context.Context, s storage
 		return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "remoteMounts: failed to detect filesystem version")
 	}
 
+	if daemon.States.ChunkDedup {
+		configPath := daemon.ConfigFile(instance.SnapshotID)
+		source, err = instance.DedupBootstrap(source, configPath)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "remoteMounts: failed to dedup rafs bootstrap")
+		}
+	}
 	// when enable nydus-overlayfs, return unified mount slice for runc and kata
 	extraOption := &ExtraOption{
 		Source:      source,