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Arbitrum Stylus Explained: How Conduit Helps You Unlock Its Full Potential for Your Rollup

Arbitrum Stylus equips your rollup to support more powerful apps and expands its developer talent pool by millions. How? By bringing WebAssembly (WASM) onchain. Stylus makes it possible for developers to write smart contracts in popular languages like Rust, C, and C , in addition to Solidity. Besides supporting more widely

How Superposition is transforming onchain rewards with Stylus

What is Superposition? Superposition is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that uses Concordia’s adaptive risk model to enhance security, efficiency, and transparency for borrowing and lending. By dynamically managing risk, Superposition mitigates systemic vulnerabilities that are found in static risk models, protecting user funds and fostering confidence in the

Stylus Sprint: Unlock new opportunities on Arbitrum

Quick Summary The Stylus Sprint is live and will offer 5M in ARB grants to developers creating innovative blockchain solutions using Arbitrum Stylus. This sprint supports teams working with Stylus’s Web Assembly (WASM) VM, which will enable coding in any WASM-compatible language (e.g., Rust). Projects will be reviewed

How Renegade Leverages Stylus For Their Onchain ZK Dark Pool

What is Renegade? Renegade is a new type of decentralized exchange (DEX), an onchain dark pool, bringing better trade execution to decentralized finance (DeFi) markets. In traditional finance, dark pools enable large institutional investors to trade assets with high privacy for minimal market impact. Renegade brings dark pools onchain through

AggLayer vs. L3s

As blockchain ecosystems evolve, new infrastructure layers are emerging to address the growing need for scalability, interoperability, and efficiency. Blockchain development teams have turned toward different approaches to tackle these challenges.  In a panel discussion at Permissionless III, Harry Kalodner, CTO of Offchain Labs, and Mark Boiron, CEO of Polygon

What is blockchain technology?

Blockchain technology is something that has been commonly talked about but widely misunderstood. It is often said in the context of cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, or even decentralization. But what exactly is the blockchain, and why should you care about it? What exactly is blockchain?  At its most basic level, blockchain refers

A guide to understanding blockchain Layer 2s (L2s)

Have you ever wondered what the buzz is about when people mention “Layer 2” or “L2” in the crypto space? It's not as complicated as it sounds. Let's dive in and demystify what a “Layer 2” blockchain is and how it differs from a “Layer 1”

Arbitrum Stylus: Now Live on Mainnet

Since the public launch of Arbitrum One on August. 31, 2021, the Arbitrum ecosystem has equipped developers with flexible tools to unleash their imaginations and build more powerful, efficient and original products on the blockchain. Today's activation of Stylus on Arbitrum One and Nova mainnets is a milestone

Announcing Bridged USDC as a Custom Gas Token for Orbit Chains

On January 24 of this year, Arbitrum announced custom gas token support for Arbitrum Orbit chains, allowing Orbit chains to charge gas fees using an ERC20 token of their choice, including their own tokens. Bridged USDC is now supported as a custom gas token on Arbitrum Orbit chains! This milestone

A quick introduction to Arbitrum Orbit

If you want to build your own application on the blockchain look no further than Arbitrum Orbit. Arbitrum Orbit allows users to create their own customizable Arbitrum Rollup or Arbitrum AnyTrust chain that is compatible with Ethereum.  Founders and developers will have the option to configure various components of their

Case Study: Xai and Arbitrum Orbit Revolutionize Onchain Game Publishing

Blockchain technology can revolutionize the gaming industry by decentralizing ownership and reshaping in-game economies. That gaming revolution will be built on blockchain infrastructure that makes onchain gaming as intuitive as Web2 games. Enter Xai, the pioneering Layer 3 solution for AAA gaming, powered by Arbitrum’s cutting-edge scaling technology. Xai:

A beginner’s guide to Arbitrum products

So, you’re new to the blockchain technology world and you have just learned a little bit about Bitcoin and Ethereum. Then, during your research, you came across Arbitrum, and you’re wondering who these people are. To simplify, Arbitrum is a suite of technological innovations designed to scale Ethereum.