Stylus Sprint Program Updates

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February/March 2026 Update

On behalf of the Stylus Sprint committee, Entropy is posting this February 2026 update.

Program Finances

  • Total ARB disbursed to teams as of March 10th: 5,897,036 ARB (~65.5%). Based on the remaining milestones submitted before the February 28th deadline, we estimate that ~7.41M ARB will be distributed to teams out of the approved 9M budget.
  • ARB disbursed in February and early-March: 7 payments were processed by the Arbitrum Foundation, totaling 724K ARB and completed at an average price of $0.102 based on price at the time of transaction.
  • 1 payment totaling 25K ARB is currently being processed with the Arbitrum Foundation.

Stylus Sprint Spending as of March 11th
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Final Reworkings of Scope & Milestones

As we approached the deadline for milestone submissions, it became more apparent which teams would finish and the available budget that could be reclaimed. In February, we worked with teams to make the following milestone adjustments and/or budget increases:

  • Another 75K ARB was added to Syndicate (up from the 150K announced in December), bringing the total increase to 225K. 25K ARB was added to each of their first 3 milestones and 50K to their final 3. Additionally, milestone 5 was revised from an audit-oriented milestone to a documentation-oriented milestone + a case study with OCL marketing.
  • Stylusport: Added 40K ARB to their final milestone to help cover costs of producing workshop and developer documentation.
  • Fiet Protocol: Added 100k ARB split across their final 3 milestones and added a case study requirement to milestone 6.
  • Angel: Added 100K spread across milestone 3-5 to help cover the development costs required to get this project finished.
  • 9 Lives: We finalized the amount of ARB to be added (90K) after rescoping milestones back in October to better reflect changes in 9 Lives’ product direction.
  • Open Source Observer: Combined milestones 3 & 4 to become a single impact report after it was deemed that the bi-monthly reviews were not a valuable resource last year.

Submitted Milestones

With February 28th being the deadline for the Stylus Sprint, the committee received 30 milestone submissions. A large number was expected, but this was also by far the most submissions in a single month and the committee is still working through its reviews to ensure that all submitted deliverables are of high quality and complete.

Debid - Fairblock

RedStone

  • Milestone 5: Ongoing account management (deliverables, payment processing)

Fiet Protocol (formerly Surety Protocol)

  • Milestone 4: Protocol Audit (deliverables, in review)
  • Milestone 5: Mainnet Deployment (deliverables, in review)
  • Milestone 6: Proof of User Adoption and Case Study (deliverables, in review)

Open Source Observer

  • Milestone 3 & 4 (combined): Analyze the data and consolidate findings into an end-of-program impact report (final report in review)

Stylus SDK: Building an AssemblyScript to WebAssembly Solution

  • Milestone 9: Testing, QA, and Documentation Update (deliverables, payment link)

Walnut: Enhanced Debugging and Tooling

Arbos-foundry by Iosiro

StylusPort: Stylus Migration Framework for Solana

Angel

  • Milestone 2: Branding update / website and MCP launch deliverables, payment link)
  • Milestone 3: Chatbot that can recommend tools and tactics to solve specific problems in stylus development (deliverables, in review)
  • Milestone 4: Dissemination (deliverables, in review)
  • Milestone 5: Maintenance & Feedback (deliverables, in review)

9 Lives

  • Milestone 2: User Growth and early signs of PMF (submitted privately, in review)
  • Milestone 3: Growth of Platform and Feature Addition (submitted privately, in review)
  • Milestone 4: Extended Growth of the Platform (submitted privately, in review)

Stylus Saturdays

  • Milestone 3: Second dapp released, 6 blog posts (deliverables, in review)
  • Milestone 4: Third dapp released, 7 blog posts (deliverables, in review)

Syndicate MintVM (aka SyndDB)

  • Milestone 1: Stylus support for Syndicate Sequencing Modules (deliverables, in review)
  • Milestone 2: Stylus load testing vs Solidity for Syndicate TEE Attestation Verification (submitted privately, in review)
  • Milestone 3: SyndDB Prototype (deliverables, in review)
  • Milestone 4: SyndDB Testnet (submitted privately, in review)
  • Milestone 5: Technical writing + case study (deliverables, in review)

Moving Stylus: Move to Stylus compatible WASM compiler

  • Milestone 7: Documentation and Launch: Write documentation, create example projects, and host workshops for developer onboarding. (deliverables, in review)

StylusFuzz: Advanced Property Testing for WASM Contracts (aka Skribe)

  • Milestone 8: Documentation and UI/UX Improvements (deliverables, payment link)

CodeTracer

Stylus Sprint Demo Day #2

On March 5th, Entropy hosted a second Stylus Sprint Demo Day on behalf of the Stylus Sprint Committee. An additional 4 Stylus Sprint teams displayed their work & progress from the last year to delegates. The recording as well as the chat transcript are accessible for anyone to view.

Timestamps:

  • Walnut - 0:45
  • Fiet Protocol - 7:05
  • ArbOS-Foundry by Iosiro - 26:40
  • StylusFuzz (now called Skribe) by Runtime Verification - 36:00

In total 11 teams have presented. Entropy has scheduled a third Demo Day for next Thursday, March 19th, for the remaining teams who finished their deliverables can present their work.

StylusUp and Stylus Resources

Over the weekend, Entropy attended Arbitrum’s Open House in NYC. We prepared a Stylus resource document and shared it with teams in the Arbitrum Discord.

In tandem, Alex has continued to improve StylusUp as a one-stop community managed directory for Stylus projects and tooling. Any builder or team can submit their project for review to be included. Even though the Stylus Sprint is wrapping up, our team will continue to work with Alex on adding features and resources to further improve the site.

Looking Forward: Retrospective Report

Entropy has been in continued conversations with the AF and OCL about what the roadmap looks like for Stylus in 2026 and how we can best support Stylus adoption and Sprint teams going forward. A few teams have already drafted maintenance or follow up proposals that we have directed to the AF. We are also coordinating with OCL marketing, who is actively preparing several case studies.

Now that the submission period for the Stylus Sprint is concluded, our team is turning its full attention to providing feedback on the final milestones and completing the retrospective report. In the report, we recap the developer tooling foundation that the Sprint was able to create. Of the 21 remaining teams, 16 were able to submit all of their deliverables (pending review). We will also dive into the challenges faced by teams and how we’re seeing some teams beginning to leverage Stylus. We appreciate delegates’ patience as we finalize the report as we hope to have it published in the coming weeks.

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