Offchain Labs, the original developer of the Arbitrum blockchain and Stylus, has announced the launch of the Arbitrum Stylus mainnet, a backwards-compatible virtual machine designed to remove common obstacles to the development of decentralized applications (DApps) for Web3. Stylus allows developers with different coding skills to build on Arbitrum using the familiar WebAssembly (WASM) compatible language. The convergence is expected to drive the launch of powerful Web3 applications and use cases at low cost. Ed Felten, co-founder and chief scientist at Offchain Labs, said Stylus unifies the two main ways to write smart contracts on blockchains: the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and traditional programming languages such as Rust, C, and C++. Offchain Labs also plans to integrate other popular protocols such as ZK-proofs into Arbitrum.