Arbitrum proposed the AIP to "activate Arbitrum Stylus and enable new WebAssembly smart contracts."

ChainCatcher news, Arbitrum has proposed an AIP to activate Arbitrum Stylus on the Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova mainnets and enable the next generation of WebAssembly smart contracts. Stylus is a complement to the EVM (Stylus contracts and EVM contracts are fully interoperable) and is a new programming environment that includes a WebAssembly-based virtual machine, CLI, and a specification SDK that defines patterns and frameworks for writing smart contracts. This allows developers to write smart contracts using new programming languages such as Rust.

It is reported that if the Arbitrum DAO approves the AIP, discussions on the proposal will be initiated in the forum, completing the review and remaining code changes, voting on Snapshot to enable Stylus on Arbitrum Sepolia, merging the Stylus branch into the standard Nitro codebase, testing on the public testnet simulating the production environment, and deploying the upgraded on-chain voting on Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova.