# Hyperlight-Wasm

> Hyperlight-Wasm is a component that enables WASM Modules to be run inside lightweight Virtual Machine backed Sandbox. Its purpose is to enable applications to safely run untrusted or third party Wasm code within a VM with very low latency/overhead. It is built on top of Hyperlight.

Hyperlight-Wasm is a component that enables <WASM> Modules to be run inside lightweight Virtual Machine backed Sandbox. Its purpose is to enable applications to safely run untrusted or third party Wasm code within a VM with very low latency/overhead. It is built on top of [Hyperlight](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Hyperlight.txt).

https://github.com/hyperlight-dev/hyperlight-wasm