Stylus Now Live — One Chain, Many Languages

TL;DR: Today we released <a href="https://github.com/OffchainLabs/stylus" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">the code</a> and public testnet for Arbitrum Stylus, allowing developers to use both traditional EVM tools and WASM-compatible languages like Rust, C, and C++ to build applications on Arbitrum Nitro chains. In addition, by improving computational, storage, and memory efficiency, Stylus dramatically lowers gas costs and enables new resource-intensive blockchain use cases like alternative signature schemes, larger generative art libraries, C++ based gaming, and compute-heavy AI models that were previously impractical. The open source SDK is available now, and we’ll be holding a Stylus Hackathon with $20,000 in bounties at ETHGlobal NY. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*hq9lqgeHa_WElRXscD18BA.jpeg" style="height:365px; width:700px" /> This announcement blog will provide the announcement highlights—learn more about Stylus on the new <a href="http://arbitrum.io/stylus" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Arbitrum website</a>, and check out <a href="https://docs.arbitrum.io/stylus/stylus-gentle-introduction" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Stylus: A Gentle Introduction</a> for a deeper technical exploration. <h1>Why We’re Stoked About Stylus</h1> This time last year we took a massive leap forward with the launch of Arbitrum Nitro; today we’re taking another big leap with Stylus. At the heart of Stylus is EVM+: bringing the best of both EVM and WASM worlds. Developers still get all of the benefits of the EVM, including the ecosystem and liquidity, while getting efficiency improvements and access to existing libraries in Rust, C, and C++. All without changing anything about how the EVM works. EVM equivalence is no longer the ceiling, it’s the floor. <a href="https://medium.com/offchainlabs/stylus-now-live-one-chain-many-languages-eee56ad7266d">Website</a>