Blockchain
Google Cloud has partnered with Polygon Labs to help developers make it easier to build, launch, and grow their Web3 products and decentralized applications (dapps) on the Ethereum-based layer 2 blockchain.
Under the new partnership, Google Cloud will bring its Blockchain Node Engine – the technology giant’s fully managed node hosting service – to the Polygon ecosystem, allowing developers to focus on building on the protocol while retaining full control over where nodes are placed. deployed, the company said in a statement released at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas.
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“Today’s announcement with Google Cloud aims to increase transaction throughput, enabling use cases in gaming, supply chain management, and DeFi,” Polygon president Ryan Wyatt said in the statement, adding, “This will pave the way freeing up even more companies to embrace blockchain technology. via Polygon.”
Google, a Web2 powerhouse, has been actively moving forward in the Web3 world in recent years by making more of its technical expertise available to developers to build projects. It recently launched a “Google for Startups Cloud Program” that will support startups and emerging projects in the Web3 industry to scale their projects faster and more securely. Also, earlier this month, the Celo Foundation said it is partnering with Google Cloud to provide workshops and cloud computing services to developers and Web3 founders building on Celo.
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The tech powerhouse said its partnership with Polygon will also help the protocol advance its zero-knowledge innovation strategy, potentially making transactions cheaper and faster. “Initial tests to run Polygon zkEVM’s zero-knowledge proofs on Google Cloud, for example, resulted in significantly faster and cheaper transactions compared to the existing setup,” the statement said. Polygon released its zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) beta to the public last month.
“Google Cloud is helping the industry achieve breakout speed by focusing our engineering efforts on areas such as improving data availability and improving the resiliency and performance of scaling protocols, such as zero-knowledge proof,” said Mitesh Agarwal, general manager, customer engineering and Web3 go-to-market, Google Cloud’s Asia Pacific said in the statement.
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