diff --git a/scripts/experiments/tunnel_community/hidden_peer_discovery.py b/scripts/experiments/tunnel_community/hidden_peer_discovery.py
index 744f212bebb..d0e30ec48ff 100644
--- a/scripts/experiments/tunnel_community/hidden_peer_discovery.py
+++ b/scripts/experiments/tunnel_community/hidden_peer_discovery.py
@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         self.register_task('_graceful_shutdown', self._graceful_shutdown, delay=EXPERIMENT_RUN_TIME)
 
     def _graceful_shutdown(self):
-        task = asyncio.create_task(self.on_tribler_shutdown())
-        task.add_done_callback(lambda result: TinyTriblerService._graceful_shutdown(self))
+        tasks = self.async_group.add(self.on_tribler_shutdown())
+        shutdown_task = tasks[0]
+        shutdown_task.add_done_callback(lambda result: TinyTriblerService._graceful_shutdown(self))
 
     async def on_tribler_shutdown(self):
         await self.shutdown_task_manager()
diff --git a/scripts/experiments/tunnel_community/speed_test_exit.py b/scripts/experiments/tunnel_community/speed_test_exit.py
index 743d16113c8..39039e251e8 100644
--- a/scripts/experiments/tunnel_community/speed_test_exit.py
+++ b/scripts/experiments/tunnel_community/speed_test_exit.py
@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         self.output_file = 'speed_test_exit.txt'
 
     def _graceful_shutdown(self):
-        task = asyncio.create_task(self.on_tribler_shutdown())
-        task.add_done_callback(lambda result: TinyTriblerService._graceful_shutdown(self))
+        tasks = self.async_group.add(self.on_tribler_shutdown())
+        shutdown_task = tasks[0]
+        shutdown_task.add_done_callback(lambda result: TinyTriblerService._graceful_shutdown(self))
 
     async def on_tribler_shutdown(self):
         await self.shutdown_task_manager()
diff --git a/src/tribler/core/components/metadata_store/restapi/metadata_endpoint.py b/src/tribler/core/components/metadata_store/restapi/metadata_endpoint.py
index 2b8426e05c2..9a192ec741a 100644
--- a/src/tribler/core/components/metadata_store/restapi/metadata_endpoint.py
+++ b/src/tribler/core/components/metadata_store/restapi/metadata_endpoint.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-from asyncio import create_task
 from binascii import unhexlify
 
 from aiohttp import ContentTypeError, web
@@ -225,5 +224,6 @@ async def get_torrent_health(self, request):
             return RESTResponse({"error": f"Error processing timeout parameter: {e}"}, status=HTTP_BAD_REQUEST)
 
         infohash = unhexlify(request.match_info['infohash'])
-        create_task(self.torrent_checker.check_torrent_health(infohash, timeout=timeout, scrape_now=True))
+        check_coro = self.torrent_checker.check_torrent_health(infohash, timeout=timeout, scrape_now=True)
+        self.async_group.add(check_coro)
         return RESTResponse({'checking': '1'})
diff --git a/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/events_endpoint.py b/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/events_endpoint.py
index 30f4e9364e6..d77c70df12b 100644
--- a/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/events_endpoint.py
+++ b/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/events_endpoint.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import asyncio
 import json
 import time
 from asyncio import CancelledError
@@ -8,7 +9,6 @@
 from aiohttp_apispec import docs
 from ipv8.REST.schema import schema
 from ipv8.messaging.anonymization.tunnel import Circuit
-from ipv8.taskmanager import TaskManager, task
 from marshmallow.fields import Dict, String
 
 from tribler.core import notifications
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def passthrough(x):
 
 
 @froze_it
-class EventsEndpoint(RESTEndpoint, TaskManager):
+class EventsEndpoint(RESTEndpoint):
     """
     Important events in Tribler are returned over the events endpoint. This connection is held open. Each event is
     pushed over this endpoint in the form of a JSON dictionary. Each JSON dictionary contains a type field that
@@ -47,8 +47,7 @@ class EventsEndpoint(RESTEndpoint, TaskManager):
     """
 
     def __init__(self, notifier: Notifier, public_key: str = None):
-        RESTEndpoint.__init__(self)
-        TaskManager.__init__(self)
+        super().__init__()
         self.events_responses: List[RESTStreamResponse] = []
         self.app.on_shutdown.append(self.on_shutdown)
         self.undelivered_error: Optional[dict] = None
@@ -59,7 +58,8 @@ def __init__(self, notifier: Notifier, public_key: str = None):
 
     def on_notification(self, topic, *args, **kwargs):
         if topic in topics_to_send_to_gui:
-            self.write_data({"topic": topic.__name__, "args": args, "kwargs": kwargs})
+            data = {"topic": topic.__name__, "args": args, "kwargs": kwargs}
+            self.async_group.add(self.write_data(data))
 
     def on_circuit_removed(self, circuit: Circuit, additional_info: str):
         # The original notification contains non-JSON-serializable argument, so we send another one to GUI
@@ -69,10 +69,7 @@ def on_circuit_removed(self, circuit: Circuit, additional_info: str):
                                                     additional_info=additional_info)
 
     async def on_shutdown(self, _):
-        await self.shutdown_task_manager()
-
-    async def shutdown(self):
-        await self.shutdown_task_manager()
+        await self.shutdown()
 
     def setup_routes(self):
         self.app.add_routes([web.get('', self.get_events)])
@@ -101,7 +98,6 @@ def encode_message(self, message: dict) -> bytes:
     def has_connection_to_gui(self):
         return bool(self.events_responses)
 
-    @task
     async def write_data(self, message):
         """
         Write data over the event socket if it's open.
@@ -124,7 +120,7 @@ async def write_data(self, message):
     def on_tribler_exception(self, reported_error: ReportedError):
         message = self.error_message(reported_error)
         if self.has_connection_to_gui():
-            self.write_data(message)
+            self.async_group.add(self.write_data(message))
         elif not self.undelivered_error:
             # If there are several undelivered errors, we store the first error as more important and skip other
             self.undelivered_error = message
@@ -170,7 +166,7 @@ async def get_events(self, request):
 
         try:
             while True:
-                await self.register_anonymous_task('event_sleep', lambda: None, delay=3600)
+                await asyncio.sleep(3600)
         except CancelledError:
             self.events_responses.remove(response)
             return response
diff --git a/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/rest_endpoint.py b/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/rest_endpoint.py
index f3522a87b2b..97bc6f57326 100644
--- a/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/rest_endpoint.py
+++ b/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/rest_endpoint.py
@@ -1,8 +1,17 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
 import json
 import logging
+from typing import Dict, TYPE_CHECKING
 
 from aiohttp import web
 
+from tribler.core.utilities.async_group import AsyncGroup
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from tribler.core.components.restapi.rest.events_endpoint import EventsEndpoint
+    from ipv8.REST.root_endpoint import RootEndpoint as IPV8RootEndpoint
+
 HTTP_BAD_REQUEST = 400
 HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED = 401
 HTTP_NOT_FOUND = 404
@@ -14,16 +23,32 @@ class RESTEndpoint:
     def __init__(self, middlewares=()):
         self._logger = logging.getLogger(self.__class__.__name__)
         self.app = web.Application(middlewares=middlewares, client_max_size=2 * 1024 ** 2)
-        self.endpoints = {}
+        self.endpoints: Dict[str, RESTEndpoint] = {}
+        self.async_group = AsyncGroup()
         self.setup_routes()
 
+        self._shutdown = False
+
     def setup_routes(self):
         pass
 
-    def add_endpoint(self, prefix, endpoint):
+    def add_endpoint(self, prefix: str, endpoint: RESTEndpoint | EventsEndpoint | IPV8RootEndpoint):
         self.endpoints[prefix] = endpoint
         self.app.add_subapp(prefix, endpoint.app)
 
+    async def shutdown(self):
+        if self._shutdown:
+            return
+        self._shutdown = True
+
+        shutdown_group = AsyncGroup()
+        for endpoint in self.endpoints.values():
+            if isinstance(endpoint, RESTEndpoint):
+                shutdown_group.add(endpoint.shutdown())  # IPV8RootEndpoint doesn't have a shutdown method
+
+        await shutdown_group.wait()
+        await self.async_group.cancel()
+
 
 class RESTResponse(web.Response):
 
diff --git a/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/shutdown_endpoint.py b/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/shutdown_endpoint.py
index 1046fae7b29..c4b7d613e48 100644
--- a/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/shutdown_endpoint.py
+++ b/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/shutdown_endpoint.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ def __init__(self, shutdown_callback):
         self.shutdown_callback = shutdown_callback
 
     def setup_routes(self):
-        self.app.add_routes([web.put('', self.shutdown)])
+        self.app.add_routes([web.put('', self.shutdown_request)])
 
     @docs(
         tags=["General"],
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ def setup_routes(self):
             }
         }
     )
-    async def shutdown(self, request):
+    async def shutdown_request(self, _):
         self._logger.info('Received a shutdown request from GUI')
         self.shutdown_callback()
         return RESTResponse({"shutdown": True})
diff --git a/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/tests/test_events_endpoint.py b/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/tests/test_events_endpoint.py
index 182c1c6f78f..8086b93b220 100644
--- a/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/tests/test_events_endpoint.py
+++ b/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/tests/test_events_endpoint.py
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ async def test_on_tribler_exception_stores_only_first_error(endpoint, reported_e
     assert endpoint.undelivered_error == endpoint.error_message(first_reported_error)
 
 
-@patch.object(EventsEndpoint, 'register_anonymous_task', new=AsyncMock(side_effect=CancelledError))
+@patch('asyncio.sleep', new=AsyncMock(side_effect=CancelledError))
 @patch.object(RESTStreamResponse, 'prepare', new=AsyncMock())
 @patch.object(RESTStreamResponse, 'write', new_callable=AsyncMock)
 @patch.object(EventsEndpoint, 'encode_message')
diff --git a/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/tests/test_rest_endpoint.py b/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/tests/test_rest_endpoint.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..be7e6cbb365
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/rest/tests/test_rest_endpoint.py
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, patch
+
+from tribler.core.components.restapi.rest.rest_endpoint import RESTEndpoint
+from tribler.core.utilities.async_group import AsyncGroup
+
+
+# pylint: disable=protected-access
+
+async def test_shutdown():
+    # In this test we check that all coros related to the Root Endpoint are cancelled
+    # during shutdown
+
+    async def coro():
+        ...
+
+    root_endpoint = RESTEndpoint()
+    root_endpoint.async_group.add(coro())
+
+    # add 2 child endpoints with a single coro in each:
+    child_endpoints = [RESTEndpoint(), RESTEndpoint()]
+    for index, child_endpoint in enumerate(child_endpoints):
+        root_endpoint.add_endpoint(prefix=f'/{index}', endpoint=child_endpoint)
+        child_endpoint.async_group.add(coro())
+
+    def total_coro_count():
+        count = 0
+        for endpoint in child_endpoints + [root_endpoint]:
+            count += len(endpoint.async_group._futures)
+        return count
+
+    assert total_coro_count() == 3
+
+    await root_endpoint.shutdown()
+
+    assert total_coro_count() == 0
+
+
+@patch.object(AsyncGroup, 'cancel', new_callable=AsyncMock)
+async def test_multiple_shutdown_calls(async_group_cancel: AsyncMock):
+    # Test that if shutdown calls twice, only one call is processed
+    endpoint = RESTEndpoint()
+
+    await endpoint.shutdown()
+    await endpoint.shutdown()
+
+    async_group_cancel.assert_called_once()
diff --git a/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/restapi_component.py b/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/restapi_component.py
index 341718d7d6c..3aadb622e9a 100644
--- a/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/restapi_component.py
+++ b/src/tribler/core/components/restapi/restapi_component.py
@@ -150,8 +150,8 @@ def report_callback(reported_error: ReportedError):
     async def shutdown(self):
         await super().shutdown()
 
-        if self._events_endpoint:
-            await self._events_endpoint.shutdown()
+        if self.root_endpoint:
+            await self.root_endpoint.shutdown()
 
         if self._core_exception_handler:
             self._core_exception_handler.report_callback = None
diff --git a/src/tribler/core/components/session.py b/src/tribler/core/components/session.py
index 9e8621676b5..41edd38df2c 100644
--- a/src/tribler/core/components/session.py
+++ b/src/tribler/core/components/session.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 from tribler.core.components.component import Component, ComponentError, ComponentStartupException, \
     MultipleComponentsFound
 from tribler.core.config.tribler_config import TriblerConfig
+from tribler.core.utilities.async_group import AsyncGroup
 from tribler.core.utilities.crypto_patcher import patch_crypto_be_discovery
 from tribler.core.utilities.install_dir import get_lib_path
 from tribler.core.utilities.network_utils import default_network_utils
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ def __init__(self, config: TriblerConfig = None, components: List[Component] = (
         self.config: TriblerConfig = config or TriblerConfig()
         self.shutdown_event: Event = shutdown_event or Event()
         self.notifier: Notifier = notifier or Notifier(loop=get_event_loop())
+        self.async_group = AsyncGroup()
         self.components: Dict[Type[Component], Component] = {}
         for component in components:
             self.register(component.__class__, component)
@@ -104,7 +106,7 @@ async def exception_reraiser():
             self.logger.info(f'Reraise startup exception: {self._startup_exception}')
             raise self._startup_exception
 
-        get_event_loop().create_task(exception_reraiser())
+        self.async_group.add(exception_reraiser())
 
     def set_startup_exception(self, exc: Exception):
         if not self._startup_exception:
@@ -113,6 +115,7 @@ def set_startup_exception(self, exc: Exception):
     async def shutdown(self):
         self.logger.info("Stopping components")
         await gather(*[create_task(component.stop()) for component in self.components.values()])
+        await self.async_group.cancel()
         self.logger.info("All components are stopped")
 
 
diff --git a/src/tribler/core/utilities/async_group.py b/src/tribler/core/utilities/async_group.py
index 349510e8bf1..a5cff104f32 100644
--- a/src/tribler/core/utilities/async_group.py
+++ b/src/tribler/core/utilities/async_group.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import asyncio
-from asyncio import CancelledError, Future
+from asyncio import CancelledError, Future, Task
 from contextlib import suppress
 from typing import Iterable, List, Set
 
@@ -24,13 +24,17 @@ class AsyncGroup:
     def __init__(self):
         self._futures: Set[Future] = set()
 
-    def add(self, *coroutines):
+    def add(self, *coroutines) -> List[Task]:
         """Add a coroutine to the group.
         """
+        result = []
         for coroutine in coroutines:
             task = asyncio.create_task(coroutine)
             self._futures.add(task)
             task.add_done_callback(self._done_callback)
+            result.append(task)
+
+        return result
 
     async def wait(self):
         """ Wait for completion of all futures
diff --git a/src/tribler/core/utilities/tests/test_async_group.py b/src/tribler/core/utilities/tests/test_async_group.py
index 951ea72eb57..788f63cfbf1 100644
--- a/src/tribler/core/utilities/tests/test_async_group.py
+++ b/src/tribler/core/utilities/tests/test_async_group.py
@@ -30,21 +30,23 @@ async def raise_exception():
 
 
 async def test_add_single_coro(group: AsyncGroup):
-    group.add(
+    tasks = group.add(
         void()
     )
 
     assert len(group._futures) == 1
+    assert len(tasks) == 1
 
 
 async def test_add_iterable(group: AsyncGroup):
-    group.add(
+    tasks = group.add(
         void(),
         void(),
         void()
     )
 
     assert len(group._futures) == 3
+    assert len(tasks) == 3
 
 
 async def test_cancel(group: AsyncGroup):
diff --git a/src/tribler/core/utilities/tiny_tribler_service.py b/src/tribler/core/utilities/tiny_tribler_service.py
index 9eef49fcfd4..c061505a83d 100644
--- a/src/tribler/core/utilities/tiny_tribler_service.py
+++ b/src/tribler/core/utilities/tiny_tribler_service.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 from tribler.core.components.component import Component
 from tribler.core.components.session import Session
 from tribler.core.config.tribler_config import TriblerConfig
+from tribler.core.utilities.async_group import AsyncGroup
 from tribler.core.utilities.osutils import get_root_state_directory
 from tribler.core.utilities.process_manager import ProcessKind, ProcessManager, TriblerProcess, \
     set_global_process_manager
@@ -27,6 +28,8 @@ def __init__(self, components: List[Component], timeout_in_sec=None, state_dir=P
         self.config = TriblerConfig(state_dir=state_dir.absolute())
         self.timeout_in_sec = timeout_in_sec
         self.components = components
+        self.async_group = AsyncGroup()
+        self._main_task = None
 
     async def on_tribler_started(self):
         """Function will calls after the Tribler session is started
@@ -42,7 +45,7 @@ async def start_tribler():
             await self._start_session()
 
             if self.timeout_in_sec:
-                asyncio.create_task(self._terminate_by_timeout())
+                self.async_group.add(self._terminate_by_timeout())
 
             self._enable_graceful_shutdown()
             await self.on_tribler_started()
@@ -51,7 +54,9 @@ async def start_tribler():
         if fragile:
             make_async_loop_fragile(loop)
 
-        loop.create_task(start_tribler())
+        # the variable `self._main_task` is used here to prevent a naked `loop.create_task()` call
+        # more details: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/7299
+        self._main_task = loop.create_task(start_tribler())
         try:
             loop.run_forever()
         finally:
@@ -97,8 +102,9 @@ async def _terminate_by_timeout(self):
 
     def _graceful_shutdown(self):
         self.logger.info("Shutdown gracefully")
-        task = asyncio.create_task(self.session.shutdown())
-        task.add_done_callback(lambda result: self._stop_event_loop())
+        tasks = self.async_group.add(self.session.shutdown())
+        shutdown_task = tasks[0]
+        shutdown_task.add_done_callback(lambda result: self._stop_event_loop())
 
     def _stop_event_loop(self):
         asyncio.get_running_loop().stop()