What is the Stylus Sprint?
To bolster the impact of the recent Stylus upgrade, the Arbitrum DAO has launched the Stylus Sprint program, aimed at encouraging the early development of Stylus smart contracts and tooling by awarding up to 5,000,000 ARB to teams who build with Stylus. Applications will be open for 8 weeks, beginning November 11th, with a 2 week review period and program length of 1 year. The requested funding is intended to cover development costs, including hiring talent, training teams, adopting new tools, infrastructure expenses, and audits at the discretion of the recipient. This program’s primary objectives are to engage new and existing Arbitrum protocol teams with this novel technology, showcase use cases only feasible with Stylus, and create foundational Stylus building blocks for widespread use.
Important Resources
Important Dates
- Applications open on Questbook: November 11th, 2024
- Applications period ends: January 6th, 2025
- Review period ends & Stylus Sprint starts: January 20th, 2025
Who Can Apply
The Stylus Sprint program any invites teams to submit applications either in the Open-Application track or in response to the RFPs established by the evaluation committee that target specific verticals. The requested funding is intended to cover development costs, including hiring talent, training teams, adopting new tools, infrastructure expenses, and audits at the discretion of the recipient.
Eligibility Requirements
- Grantees must apply using the approved program application template.
- Grantees must agree to KYC/KYB with the Arbitrum Foundation in order to receive funds.
- Grantees must participate in a case study that highlights their Stylus development experience.
3.1. The requirements for the case study may include the following deliverables to introduce the project and share how Stylus was used: (1) a blog post and/or (2) a recorded interview or podcast. - Grantees must make their entire project accessible by the public and it is suggested that teams have their codebase licensed under an OSI-compliant license.
- Grantees must participate in co-marketing activities to promote their protocol and Stylus.
5.1. Examples of co-marketing may include social media posts announcing acceptance into the Stylus Sprint or reposts during coordinated campaigns. - ARB tokens granted to teams are not to be used in DAO governance and should be delegated to the Arbitrum Exclude Address.
- Grantees must not encourage or partake in sybil attacks against the forum to sway community opinion.
How to Apply
The Stylus Sprint application and grading process will be hosted on Questbook.
- Create an account in https://questbook.app/
- Go to the dashboard of the “Arbitrum Stylus Sprint”
- Click on the “Submit New” button on the top left of the page.
- Insert your responses based on the Stylus Sprint Application Template into the form.
- After completing the application, you will receive an invite to the Stylus Sprint Discord where the continuous feedback process will take place until the end of the application period (January 6th).