Arbitrum Stylus introduces a new approach for businesses to maintain performance-sensitive infrastructure offchain while verifying critical trust boundaries onchain.
Key implementation:
- Syndicate deployed SyndDB using Stylus to keep high-throughput systems offchain
- Critical trust checkpoints remain verifiable onchain
- Enables businesses to balance performance needs with transparency requirements
This architecture addresses a common challenge: systems requiring high performance can operate offchain, while maintaining onchain verification for trust-critical operations. The approach offers flexibility beyond standard smart contracts.
On the Arbitrum Platform, trading infrastructure scales across any asset class. With deep liquidity and predictable execution, @variational_ioโs Vision for 2026 shows how they're expanding into TradFi markets. The programmable economy is being built one trade at a time.
The global economy is making the shift from manual systems into programmable infrastructure. Businesses want the ability to launch markets that are GTM-ready and globally accessible. Institutions are evaluating blockchain infrastructure based on reliability, customization and
The Arbitrum Platform is built for businesses that need more than standard smart contracts. Syndicate used Stylus to keep high-throughput infrastructure offchain while making critical trust boundaries verifiable onchain through SyndDB.
Read more how businesses can keep performance-sensitive systems offchain while verifying critical trust boundaries onchain with Arbitrum Stylus. blog.arbitrum.io/onchain-trust-โฆ
Programmable payments are here with @eldoradoio's International VISA Card. Pay, send and receive USDT globally with low costs, instant settlement, and 24/7 access powered by Arbitrum. No more payment frictions. Only faster, borderless money movement.
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The programmable economy is creating a new generation of financial businesses and weโre excited to see x402 shape how AI agents, applications, and services transact value programmatically on the Arbitrum Platform.
Programmable trading is scaling with @variational_io. Deep liquidity, predictable execution, and global distribution enable trading infrastructure to scale across asset classes on the Arbitrum Platform. With $211B+ in volume and expansion into TradFi underway, trading is
Welcome back to the Variational biweekly update! PRODUCT โก๏ธ The most recent mainnet release was v0.15.1. โก๏ธ Added default TP/SL slippage limits of 3%. โก๏ธ Prepared competition leaderboard for competition 2. โก๏ธ Miscellaneous performance improvements for trading history CSV
TradFi assets are gaining real traction in the programmable economy. @ostium reached $50B+ in cumulative volume in April, with 66% coming from TradFi markets. As capital becomes more programmable (bringing in more participants and deeper composability), volume will continue
$50,000,000,000 in cumulative trading volume. 66% of that volume has been traditional assets. Ostium is the gateway to global markets.
Global markets are becoming programmable. Ostium enables trading across stocks, commodities, forex and crypto with deep liquidity and fast execution on Arbitrum. With +$50B in total trading volume, @ostium is opening access to global markets.
.@edgeX_exchange ($800B+ in volume) is growing the programmable economy by transforming how global markets trade. Theyโre making markets: - 24/7 - Unified across asset classes - Programmable at the infrastructure layer Powered by Arbitrum, EDGE Chain unlocks custom
Programmable markets make settlement instant and operations more efficient. Thatโs why businesses are building on the Arbitrum Platform: +$78M in @USDT0_to capital flowed into the platform in just one week. Fintechs moving in this direction are positioned to win.
In one week, we saw $50M move from Ethereum into purpose-built chains plus: โข $78M net into @arbitrum โข $15M net into @Plasma Traditional finance takes days to move money. Now, capital can move to meet demand across 249 routes in an instant.
How is EdgeX making global markets programmable? Learn more: blog.arbitrum.io/edgex-announceโฆ
Programmable payments are emerging with @eldoradoioโs International VISA Card. The Arbitrum Platform enables this with predictable costs, real-time settlement and access to global markets. As payments become programmable, money transforms into a system that moves continuously,
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Read more about how Rise is making global payments programmable on Arbitrum. blog.arbitrum.io/rise-global-paโฆ
Agentic commerce has arrived in the programmable economy. x402 by @coinbase is now live on the Arbitrum Platform, allowing builders to let AI agents pay for APIs, services, and software directly with stablecoins. ๐ docs.cdp.coinbase.com/x402/network-sโฆ
Trading is becoming programmable. Trades on the blockchain need to be verifiable, but with @Deluthium's Dark Pools, the details of your trade can stay hidden. Arbitrum powers programmable trades.
The programmable economy is growing. From payments to compute to commodities, April showed how new markets are forming and evolving on the Arbitrum Platform. ๐๐งต
Rise is growing the programmable economy with global payments. By making payroll programmable, costs are reduced, payments become borderless and businesses gain more control over how and when money moves. With more than $1B+ lifetime volume and $400M+ in USDC and USDT
Programmable Markets compress settlement from days to seconds.
If you buy or sell a traditional stock on Monday, the trade usually settles on Tuesday. In tokenized markets, value can move and settle in seconds. Programmable markets reduce settlement time, and lower operational friction. Fintechs moving in this direction are going to win.
Cross-chain liquidity is going programmable with @SupersetFinance. With deep liquidity, reliable execution, and low costs on the Arbitrum Platform, capital movement becomes more seamless. As markets become programmable, liquidity moves freely across chains.
Introducing @Arbitrum as the Superset hub chain. This is the logical choice to align security, speed, cost and liquidity, and ensure unified stablecoin execution infrastructure works. It's time FX came onchain ๐ค
Pleasing Market Brings $92M in Tokenized Gold to Arbitrum

**Pleasing Market** is expanding digital gold infrastructure with **PGOLD**, a tokenized gold asset backed by physical reserves. **Key developments:** - $92M in gold now tokenized and available onchain - Built on Arbitrum for predictable execution and deep liquidity - Previously integrated Chainlink Data Streams for sub-second, verifiable gold price data The platform is making precious metal markets programmable, allowing users to trade and interact with gold-backed assets using blockchain infrastructure. This represents a growing trend of bringing traditional commodity markets onchain with transparent backing and real-time data feeds.
๐๏ธ Arbitrum Foundation Launches Open House London

**Arbitrum Foundation announces Open House London**, a builder program and startup accelerator designed to bring new businesses into the programmable economy. **Key Details:** - **$415K prize pool** - the largest yet from Arbitrum Foundation - **3-week online Buildathon** starting May 25th - Open to early-stage teams building AI, payments, or DeFi primitives **What Participants Get:** - Technical guidance through workshops - Hands-on mentoring from the Arbitrum ecosystem - Path to IRL Founder House in London - Support turning concepts into mainnet products **Sponsor:** Alchemy is providing enterprise infrastructure and tooling support. Registration is now open at [openhouse.arbitrum.io](http://openhouse.arbitrum.io/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=oh-london-buildathon)
Arbitrum Simplifies Solana-to-Arbitrum Migration with Rust Support

Arbitrum has launched new tools to help development teams migrate from Solana to Arbitrum while preserving their existing Rust codebase. **Key Benefits for Teams:** - Preserve existing Rust code and team expertise - Reduce rewrite overhead - Speed up planning, porting and validation processes - Lower time, cost, and hiring burden for testing Arbitrum strategies This initiative builds on Arbitrum's Stylus Sprint program, which recently funded 17 teams with 5M ARB to develop Rust applications and tooling. The program supports projects across AI, DeFi, gaming, and infrastructure, including oracle providers, developer tools, and security frameworks. Full details: [blog.arbitrum.io/migrating-from-solana-to-arbitrum](http://blog.arbitrum.io/migrating-from-solana-to-arbitrum)
Oak Security Launches StylusPort to Bridge Solana Apps to Arbitrum

Oak Security has introduced **StylusPort**, a tool that allows developers to migrate Rust-based smart contracts from Solana to Arbitrum's EVM-compatible platform without rebuilding from scratch. **Key features:** - Migration guide for Solana applications - AI-powered tool to accelerate the porting process - Full EVM interoperability on Arbitrum **Benefits for developers:** - Faster deployment timelines - Reduced development costs - Simplified entry into EVM ecosystems The tool addresses a significant pain point for teams looking to expand beyond Solana's ecosystem. Previously, moving to EVM chains required complete application rewrites, creating barriers for cross-chain expansion. Oak Security is offering workshops and office hours to help developers learn the migration process. Teams interested in bringing their Solana applications to Arbitrum can sign up for guidance sessions.