Feb 18, 2026
Stylus in the Real World: Building Production Mini-Apps on Arbitrum Mainnet
WakeUp Labs is launching an initiative to build and deploy open-source Stylus Mini-Apps on Arbitrum mainnet. Over the coming months, three production-ready apps, a game, a token trading app, and a DeFi utility, will go live and integrate with real Mini-App platforms.
The goal is to validate Stylus in real-world conditions, testing performance, developer experience, and production readiness through actual users and transactions.
At WakeUp Labs, we’re starting a new initiative inside the Arbitrum ecosystem:
building Mini-Apps on mainnet using Stylus.
Over the next few months, we’ll design, build, and deploy a set of open-source Mini-Apps written in Stylus, fully deployed on Arbitrum mainnet and exposed to real users through Mini-App platforms like Lemon, World app, BASE app, Farcaster, and other embedded environments.
The goal is simple but ambitious:
👉 validate Stylus in production through real applications with users, transactions, and state.
Why this matters
Stylus opens the door to high-performance smart contracts using languages like Rust and AssemblyScript. But as with any new execution environment, the real question isn’t “does it benchmark well?”, it’s:
How does it behave under real user traffic?
What does the developer experience look like end-to-end?
Where does Stylus clearly outperform Solidity, and where does it not?
What new kinds of apps become viable?
Mini-Apps are the perfect surface to answer those questions. They are lightweight, user-facing, embedded by design, and increasingly relevant as a distribution channel for onchain applications.
What we’re building
We’ll ship three Stylus-powered Mini-Apps, each targeting a different category:
🎮 An onchain game with frequent state updates and high user interaction.
🪙 A token trading Mini-App for buying and selling tokens.
💸 An utility Mini-App integrated with multiple DeFi protocols.
Each Mini-App will be:
Deployed on Arbitrum mainnet
Fully open-source (contracts + frontend)
Integrated into a Mini-App platform
The bigger picture
This initiative it’s about creating production-grade references that help the ecosystem answer a critical question: Is Stylus ready for real apps on mainnet?
We believe the fastest way to move Stylus adoption forward is by shipping real things, in public, with real constraints, and sharing everything we learn along the way.
At WakeUp Labs, we’re starting a new initiative inside the Arbitrum ecosystem:
building Mini-Apps on mainnet using Stylus.
Over the next few months, we’ll design, build, and deploy a set of open-source Mini-Apps written in Stylus, fully deployed on Arbitrum mainnet and exposed to real users through Mini-App platforms like Lemon, World app, BASE app, Farcaster, and other embedded environments.
The goal is simple but ambitious:
👉 validate Stylus in production through real applications with users, transactions, and state.
Why this matters
Stylus opens the door to high-performance smart contracts using languages like Rust and AssemblyScript. But as with any new execution environment, the real question isn’t “does it benchmark well?”, it’s:
How does it behave under real user traffic?
What does the developer experience look like end-to-end?
Where does Stylus clearly outperform Solidity, and where does it not?
What new kinds of apps become viable?
Mini-Apps are the perfect surface to answer those questions. They are lightweight, user-facing, embedded by design, and increasingly relevant as a distribution channel for onchain applications.
What we’re building
We’ll ship three Stylus-powered Mini-Apps, each targeting a different category:
🎮 An onchain game with frequent state updates and high user interaction.
🪙 A token trading Mini-App for buying and selling tokens.
💸 An utility Mini-App integrated with multiple DeFi protocols.
Each Mini-App will be:
Deployed on Arbitrum mainnet
Fully open-source (contracts + frontend)
Integrated into a Mini-App platform
The bigger picture
This initiative it’s about creating production-grade references that help the ecosystem answer a critical question: Is Stylus ready for real apps on mainnet?
We believe the fastest way to move Stylus adoption forward is by shipping real things, in public, with real constraints, and sharing everything we learn along the way.
