Scaffold-Stylus – Final Report
Name of your project: Scaffold-stylus
Period: June 2025 – November 2025
1. Overview
Scaffold-stylus is a comprehensive developer starter kit and educational framework designed to significantly reduce the barrier to entry for building on Arbitrum Stylus. Its core mission is to empower developers to quickly prototype, build, and deploy high-performance decentralized applications (dApps) by leveraging Arbitrum’s Nitro Virtual Machine (VM) ability to run programs written in languages like Rust alongside traditional Solidity. The project provides pre-configured tooling, contract examples, and a unified development environment.
This report summarizes the successful completion of all project milestones, highlighting core technical deliveries, extensive community education efforts, and measurable developer adoption metrics across global workshops and bootcamps.
- Milestones: 4/4 Completed
2. Core Deliverables and Technical Milestones (Milestone 1 & 2)
The project successfully delivered a robust, multi-network developer framework, focusing on accessibility and speed-of-development.
Framework Accessibility & Repository
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Instant Setup: Developers can initiate a new Stylus project with the simple command:
npx create-stylus@latest. -
Included Components: The framework ships standard with pre-configured React hooks & components for immediate front-end development.
Multi-Network and Orbit Chain Support
The framework provides comprehensive multi-network support, enabling deployment across the Arbitrum ecosystem and beyond:
| Network Category | Supported Chains |
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| Core Arbitrum | Nitro DevNode, Sepolia Testnet, Arbitrum One, Arbitrum Nova |
| Orbit Chains (L3s) | Superposition Mainnet/Testnet, Educhain Mainnet/Testnet |
| Deployment Note | This tool enables developers to deploy smart contracts on any Orbit chain with minimal configuration. |
Available Extensions
To accelerate dApp creation, several modular extensions were integrated into the setup utility:
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npx create-stylus@latest -e erc20 -
npx create-stylus@latest -e erc721 -
npx create-stylus@latest -e chainlink-data-feed -
npx create-stylus@latest -e chainlink-vrf
3. Developer Adoption & Community Engagement (Milestone 3 & 4)
The project successfully exceeded its developer onboarding goals through a highly focused, global campaign of workshops and bootcamps, significantly increasing the adoption and active utilization of scaffold-stylus.
3.1 Measurable Developer Onboarding
A total of 78 unique developers were successfully onboarded and documented across various educational events, providing a strong foundation for future Stylus development.
| Event Name | Format | Participants | Verification / Outcome |
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| Ethereum Lima Bootcamp | IRL/Hybrid | 50 | Total attendees across multiple sessions (Intro, Smart Contracts, UI). |
| Vietnam, HCMC Workshop | IRL | 34 | Detailed list of participants from 60 total attendees. |
| Spanish Workshop (Sept 5th) | Online sync | 18 | Participants provided verifiable GitHub handles. |
| Vietnamese Workshop | Online async | 10 | Unique developers tested the tool and successfully created an projects using scaffold-stylus. |
| TOTAL DEVELOPERS ONBOARDED | — | 78 | Exceeded Onboarding Goal |
3.2 Tangible Ecosystem Contributions (DApps Built)
The workshops directly resulted in the creation of 13 community dApps, demonstrating active use and viability of the scaffold-stylus framework for real-world application building.
| Context | Developers Involved | DApps Built | Key Details |
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| Eth Lima Bootcamp | 7 Developers | 7 | Focused development during the multi-session event. |
| General Workshops | 4 Developers | 6 | Includes two developers who built 2 apps each. |
| TOTAL COMMUNITY DAPPS BUILT | — | 13 | — |
3.3 Community Education & Outreach
The project delivered comprehensive educational materials and hosted high-impact events to ensure broad accessibility.
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IRL Workshop (Vietnam): Co-hosted a successful event with subsequent feedback collected via the Arbitrum Forum.
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Workshop Feedback: Arbitrum Foundation Forum
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Ethereum Lima bootcamp: Organized by Eth Lima team with support of Scaffold-stylus tech team
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Devconnect Workshop Series: Significant presence at high-profile industry events, fostering valuable connections.
4. Qualitative Impact & Community Feedback
The results confirm a strong, direct impact on developer experience and the Arbitrum Stylus ecosystem. Unlike projects relying solely on automated metrics, scaffold-stylus measured success through direct developer interaction and artifact creation.
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Verified Adoption: The project obtained detailed participant lists, GitHub submissions, and actual community dApps, providing tangible proof of adoption and tool functionality.
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Ecosystem Engagement & Advocacy: The project maintained consistent, direct communication with the Arbitrum team, leading to strong validation and increased visibility.
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Direct Feedback: Received positive technical feedback from DevRel leads (e.g., Ben and ChrisCo), affirming the tool’s quality and alignment with ecosystem needs.
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Official Channel Advocacy: The team participated in the Arbiverse to discuss Stylus adoption and successfully coordinated promotional posts via the official Arbitrum Developers X account.
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Community Endorsement: The project gained traction organically, evidenced by multiple Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) and community members featuring scaffold-stylus on the X platform.
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Ecosystem Contribution: The creation of 13 community dApps demonstrates that the scaffold-stylus is not only easy to use but also directly enables developers to contribute novel applications to the Arbitrum ecosystem. Besides these live dApps, we got 10 projects built by onboarded developers.
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Documentation & Educational Materials: The project produced a wealth of educational materials, including:
5. Future Plans & Continued Ecosystem Alignment
The project will continue to maintain the scaffold-stylus repository and educational materials. Future plans include monitoring Arbitrum network upgrades to ensure tooling compatibility, integrating new Stylus features as they are released, and utilizing the community feedback gathered to refine the developer experience and contribute further to the Stylus ecosystem.
Gian Alarcon at Quantum3Labs
@gianmalarcon