diff --git a/cmd/api.go b/cmd/api.go
index 8b97d076c..2d1ce79df 100644
--- a/cmd/api.go
+++ b/cmd/api.go
@@ -184,25 +184,6 @@ func getAPICmd() *cobra.Command {
 			// Data for this should be stored in the ServicesManager struct
 			r.HandleFunc("/listen/{path}/{strategy}/{name}", PostRelayerListenHandler(sm)).Methods("POST")
 
-			// TODO: do we want to add the transaction commands here to?
-			// initial thoughts: expose high level transactions
-			// tx create-clients
-			// POST /paths/{name}/clients
-			// tx update-clients
-			// PUT /paths/{name}/clients
-			// tx connection
-			// POST /paths/{name}/connections
-			// tx channel
-			// POST /paths/{name}/channels
-			// tx link
-			// POST /paths/{name}/link
-			// tx relay-packets
-			// POST /paths/{name}/relay/packets
-			// tx relay-acks
-			// POST /paths/{name}/relay/acks
-			// tx transfer
-			// POST /paths/{name}/transfers
-
 			// TODO: listen validation in config
 			fmt.Println("listening on", config.Global.APIListenPort)
 
diff --git a/docs/rest-server.md b/docs/rest-server.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cdb3ac958
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/rest-server.md
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+# Rest Server
+
+## rly api
+
+To start rest server, just run command `rly api`. This will start local server by default on `0.0.0.0:5183`. To modify api listen address, please edit `global.api-listen-addr` value in `~/.relayer/config/config.yaml` file.
+
+```shell
+$ rly api
+listening on :5183
+```
+
+## Testing
+
+Start two test chains for testing rest-server by running below commands:
+
+```bash
+# ensure go and jq are installed 
+# Go Documentation: https://golang.org/doc/install
+# jq Documentation: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download
+
+# First, download and build the gaia source code so we have a working blockchain to test against
+$ make get-gaia build-gaia
+
+# two-chainz creates two gaia-based chains with data directories in this repo
+# it also builds and configures the relayer for operations with those chains
+$ ./scripts/two-chainz
+# NOTE: If you want to stop the two gaia-based chains running in the background use `killall gaiad`
+
+# At this point the relayer --home directory is ready for normal operations between
+# ibc-0 and ibc-1. Looking at the folder structure of the relayer at this point is helpful
+```
+
+Now, lets test some rest routes using `curl` command in shell:
+
+```bash
+# Get all the chains that are ready to relay over
+$ curl http://localhost:5183/chains
+
+[{"key":"testkey","chain-id":"ibc-0","rpc-addr":"http://localhost:26657","account-prefix":"cosmos","gas-adjustment":1.5,"gas-prices":"0.025stake","trusting-period":"336h"},{"key":"testkey","chain-id":"ibc-1","rpc-addr":"http://localhost:26557","account-prefix":"cosmos","gas-adjustment":1.5,"gas-prices":"0.025stake","trusting-period":"336h"}]
+
+# Add a new chain 
+# Here we are sending request body json as value to -d flag in curl
+$ curl -d '{"key":"testkey3","rpc-addr":"http://localhost:26657","account-prefix":"ibc","gas-adjustment":"2","gas-prices":"0.05stake","trusting-period":"33h"}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' http://localhost:5183/chains/ibc-2
+
+"chain ibc-2 added successfully"
+
+# Add new path to relay over
+$ curl -d '{"src-chain-id":"ibc-0","dst-chain-id":"ibc-1","src":{"client-id":"","connection-id":"","channel-id":"","port-id":"transfer","order":"unordered","version":"ics20-1"},"dst":{"client-id":"","connection-id":"","channel-id":"","port-id":"transfer","order":"unordered","version":"ics20-1"}}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' http://localhost:5183/paths/demo-path
+
+# Here we are creating path by sending data in format 
+{
+    src-chain-id  string
+    dst-chain-id  string
+    src           PathEnd
+    dst           PathEnd
+}
+
+# We can also create path by sending file path instead of src and dst data in below format
+{
+    file          string
+    src-chain-id  string
+    dst-chain-id  string
+}
+
+$ curl -d '{"file":"/root/go/src/github.com/cosmos/relayer/configs/akash/demo.json","src-chain-id":"ibc-0","dst-chain-id":"ibc-1"}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' http://localhost:5183/paths/demo2
+
+"path demo2 added successfully"
+
+# Get all paths
+$ curl http://localhost:5183/paths
+
+{"demo-path":{"src":{"chain-id":"ibc-0","client-id":"07-tendermint-0","connection-id":"connection-0","channel-id":"channel-0","port-id":"transfer","order":"unordered","version":"ics20-1"},"dst":{"chain-id":"ibc-1","client-id":"07-tendermint-0","connection-id":"connection-0","channel-id":"channel-0","port-id":"transfer","order":"unordered","version":"ics20-1"},"strategy":{"type":"naive"}},"demo2":{"src":{"chain-id":"ibc-0","port-id":"transfer","order":"unordered","version":"ics20-1"},"dst":{"chain-id":"ibc-1","port-id":"transfer","order":"unordered","version":"ics20-1"},"strategy":{"type":"naive"}}}
+
+```
\ No newline at end of file