Stylus makes Arbitrum a differentiated ecosystem with competitive lock-in potential. So it is a pleasure to see how well-received this initiative was at such early stages.
Candidly, we support this proposal and appreciate the conservative approach. Additionally, in reference to responses from other delegates to submit these applications separately or increase the scope of the program to be more general to accept even more applicants, we disagree. Again, Stylus is one of the few differentiators with lock-in potential Arbitrum holds relative to other L2s. What’s more is that the program is ran conservatively for a reason, it cuts down on unnecessary procedural bloat, and being that it is a sprint, this is to incentivize teams willing to double down on Arbitrum right now. So, truly we see no purpose in diluting this with a much larger number of candidates that are likely low quality (you can check the Questbook) that increase the risk of migration and add bloat.