According to Foresight News, Arbitrum has proposed the activation of Arbitrum Stylus and the implementation of a new generation of WebAssembly smart contracts on the Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova mainnets. Stylus is a complement to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and is fully interoperable with EVM contracts. It is also a new programming environment that includes a WebAssembly-based virtual machine, a command-line interface (CLI), and a specification SDK for defining patterns and frameworks for writing smart contracts. This allows developers to write smart contracts using new programming languages such as Rust.
If the Arbitrum DAO approves the AIP, discussions on the proposal will be initiated in the forum, followed by the completion of audits and remaining code changes. Voting will take place on Snapshot to enable Stylus on Arbitrum Sepolia, merging the Stylus branch into the standard Nitro codebase, testing on a public testnet in a simulated production environment, and deploying upgraded on-chain voting on Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova.