Stylus Toolkit — Final Milestone Report

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# Stylus Toolkit — Final Milestone Report

Grant Recipient: Maheswaran Velmurugan

Project: Stylus Toolkit

This report summarizes the completion of all milestones and deliverables for the Stylus Toolkit grant.

Overview

The Stylus Toolkit is now fully complete across both milestones. What started as a CLI scaffold has grown into a full local development environment with gas analytics, historical tracking, and community infrastructure — all installable in a single npm command.

What Was Delivered

Milestone 1 laid the core foundation: a production-ready CLI with four contract templates (Basic, ERC-20, ERC-721, DeFi), a gas profiling system that deploys both Rust and Solidity contracts side-by-side, multi-network support (local, Sepolia, mainnet), and export in JSON, CSV, and HTML formats. The package was published to NPM at v0.1.0 under MIT license.

Milestone 2 extended this into a complete dev environment. A single command (stylus-toolkit dev) now spins up a local Arbitrum Stylus node via Docker with two pre-funded accounts — no manual setup. The deploy command handles gas estimation and private key management. A local analytics dashboard aggregates all profile runs with TCO trend charts and savings breakdowns. No cloud account or telemetry involved.

Verified Gas Savings

Across tested operations, Rust (Stylus) consistently outperformed Solidity — 16.7% savings on reads, 40% on writes, 46.7% on compute-heavy operations, and 27.2% on oracle calls. Average execution savings came in at 32.6%, with full TCO savings at 26.7% after 100 calls per function — well above the 25% target.

KPI Results

All primary targets were hit. NPM downloads reached 224 against a 100 target. Gas savings exceeded the 25% threshold. Local testnet runs reliably under Docker with health checks. The Discord server and YouTube channel are both live with tutorial content covering the full workflow.

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