Tutorial on how to bridge to Stylus and start using it

Esther Oche
Web3 Writers Guild
Published in
2 min readMar 8, 2024

Stylus is an upgrade to Arbitrum Nitro that allows smart contracts to be written in languages like Rust, C, and C++. This is important because these languages are more efficient than Solidity, which can lead to faster and cheaper smart contracts.

Stylus offers a better way of writing smart contracts on Arbitrum.

I will take you through a step-by-step process of bridging on Arbritum Stylus as a user, it’s simple follow me:

  1. ➠ Head to: https://telegra.ph/Stylus-09-01
  2. ➠ Log in with your MetaMask, click on “Add Network”, and
  3. Manually add the Arbitrum Stylus network.
  1. ➠Then head to: https://sepoliafaucet.com
  2. ➠ Receive test ETH to the Metamask wallet.

Bridge 1

  1. ➠ Head to: https://bridge.arbitrum.io
  2. ➠ Send ETH from Sepolia to Arbitrum Sepolia.

Bridge 2

➠ Head to: https://bridge.arbitrum.io

Finally,

You now have your stylus ETH in your wallet.

NFT Minting

Mint NFT

➠ Head to: https://power.omnibase.xyz/arbitrum-stylus-testnet

➠ Mint any amount of NFTs on the Stylus network.

Arbitrum is a suite of scaling solutions providing environments with high-throughput, low-cost smart contracts, backed by industry-leading proving technology rooted in Ethereum. Arbitrum has primarily 2 blockchains called Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova. The newest product, Arbitrum Orbit, lets you create your own dedicated chain that settles to one of Arbitrum’s Layer 2 (L2) chains: Arbitrum One, Arbitrum Nova, or Arbitrum Goerli. Learn more about Arbitrum here.

References:

https://docs.arbitrum.io/welcome/get-started

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