November 2025 Update
On behalf of the Stylus Sprint committee, Entropy is posting this November update.
Program Finances
- Total ARB disbursed to teams to date: 4,269,369 ARB (~47.44% of the 9M ARB budget)
- ARB disbursed in November: 623,333 ARB (~$143,538.26 based on price at the time of transaction). At an average price of $0.23 for ARB, market conditions have continued to be an issue for the program. As detailed further below, more reallocations have been made to certain projects.
- 6 payments were processed in November by the Arbitrum Foundation with an additional 4 payments that total 361,840 ARB currently processing.
- 4 milestones submitted in November are in the process of being reviewed by the committee which total 74,160 ARB.
Submitted Milestones
In November, 6 milestones were submitted as a few teams are approaching the final milestones of their scoped work.
Thirdweb Stylus Integration
- Milestone 5: Development of Key Use Case 3 (deliverables, payment processing)
- Documentation: Stylus Minting Modules | thirdweb Documentation
- Thirdweb and OCL are working on marketing materials.
Stylus SDK: Building an Assembly Script to WebAssembly Solution by Wakeup Labs
- Milestone 7: Production Rollout and documentation enhancement (deliverables, in review)
Arbos-Foundry
- Milestone 2: Implement gas/ink metering for Stylus programs in revm (deliverables, in review)
- Milestone 4: Implement changes for remote state forking (deliverables, in review)
- Milestone 5: Implement ArbOS precompiles or precompile mocks where applicable (deliverables, in review)
Angel by FairAI and EmberAI
- Milestone 1: Chatbot for docs and basic data pipelines (deliverables, tx link)
- Live Assistant: https://stylus-demo.duckdns.org/
Stylus Sprint Highlights
Devconnect
In Buenos Aires, several members of the committee (Entropy, SeedGov, OCL, AF) were able to connect with a majority of the Stylus Sprint teams in person. As part of the programming at Arbiverse, two Stylus related talks were given: RedStone Oracles & Stylus and Challenges & Opportunities: Stylus Adoption in a Solidity World which included Rather Labs (Moving Stylus) and Wakeup Labs.
In addition to the talks at Arbiverse, Wakeup Labs also hosted a stylus community meetup: Arbitrum Stylus Awakening. The event was an intimate gathering of Stylus developers and included talks from Srinjoy (Stylus Product Lead at OCL), Peyman (Founder of Fairblock), Alex (CTO of Superposition and author of Stylus Saturdays), and Milton (Co-Founder of Wakeup Labs).
StylusPort
Oak Security in partnership with Range have released StylusPort: a comprehensive handbook and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for developers transitioning from Solana Programs to Stylus Contracts.
Oak Security is hosting developer workshops for those interested in learning more about Stylusport. If delegates know of developers or teams who may be looking to migrate, they can be directed to this sign up link. The next workshop is December 16th at 16:00 UTC.
Reworking of Scope/Milestones
As we mentioned last month, the committee has been in conversations with several teams to address budget shortfalls or add milestones to further round out the development of tooling. In addition to the teams mentioned last month, the following adjustments were finalized in November:
- StylusFuzz by Runtime Verification: Added 100k ARB split across the final 3 milestones
- Walnut: Added an additional 200k ARB to help cover developer costs and add an 8th milestone for Linux support and pretty-printing.
- OCL has been coordinating an audit for the Walnut team to prepare for an official merge of the new debugger into the Stylus SDK.
At this point in time, almost all of the ARB reclaimed from the 4 withdrawn projects has been reallocated.
Looking Forward
From the product size, the audit for Stylus v0.10 is on schedule with the new version on track to be released near the end of the year. Additionally, the product team is evaluating increasing the contract size on Arbitrum One as part of the next arbOS upgrade. The 24kb contract size limit has been a severe limitation for Stylus as the overhead and storage costs associated with using the SDK take up most of this limit, which requires most complex use cases to be split across multiple contracts.
In Buenos Aires, Entropy, OCL, and the AF what continued support could look like for the teams that participated in the Stylus Sprint as well as other Stylus builders. With many details still being worked on, we hope to share more before the Holiday Break. Lastly, as the Sprint reaches its deadline, Entropy is evaluating the necessity of small extensions for certain teams as requests have started to come from a few teams. It is still our goal and intention to push for teams to be wrapped up by the end of January.