Offchain Labs introduces Arbitrum Stylus on mainnet, enabling DApp development with WebAssembly languages, boosting performance, and lowering gas fees.
Offchain Labs, the original developer of Arbitrum blockchain and Stylus, announced the mainnet launch of Arbitrum Stylus, a backward-compatible virtual machine designed to remove common barriers to decentralized app (DApp) development for Web3.
Stylus allows developers with varied coding skills to build on Arbitrum using the familiar WebAssembly (WASM)-)-compatible languages. The convergence is expected to spur the launch of powerful Web3 applications and use cases with low gas fees.
Speaking to Cointelegraph at the Korea Blockchain Week conference on Sept. 3, Offchain Labs co-founder and chief scientist Ed Felten explained that Stylus unifies the two primary ways of writing smart contracts on blockchains: Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and traditional programming languages such as Rust, C and C++.
