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DeFiVerified InsightPublished 30 Apr 2026 · 16:45 GMT
Arbitrum Activates Stylus on Mainnet
Blockchain News Summary
Stylus brings Rust, C, and C++ smart contracts to Arbitrum, sharing state with Solidity contracts.
Stylus uses a WASM-based VM that runs alongside the Arbitrum EVM. Contracts in different languages can call each other; gas costs are claimed to be 10-100x cheaper for compute-heavy operations.
Early mainnet adopters include Renegade (zk dark pool), Lemma Finance (perps), and several oracle providers.