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Observed arrival · 2026-08-27

Wasmd, a WebAssembly Runtime With Receipts

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Editorial interest 79/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

Wasmd presents a secure, embeddable WebAssembly runtime written in Rust, with a CLI, capability sandboxing, registry tooling, and WASI support.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-27 issue.

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The homepage lays out a module lifecycle that runs from validation and instantiation through controlled execution, with capability grants rather than implicit permissions. Its examples include a 15.9ms hello-world run and a publish operation producing a digest, while the security section names concrete controls such as fuel, memory, call depth, filesystem, environment, and network isolation. The registry is described as self-hostable and content-addressed; the orchestration layer remains marked “IN DESIGN.”

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