To make it simpler for developers to create, release, and grow their Web3 products and decentralized applications (dapps) on the Ethereum-based layer 2 blockchain, Google Cloud is collaborating with Polygon Labs.
The tech giant’s Blockchain Node Engine, which it will make available to the Polygon ecosystem as part of the new partnership, will help developers concentrate on building on the protocol while maintaining full control over where nodes are deployed, according to a statement released by Google Cloud at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas.
In the statement, Polygon President Ryan Wyatt stated that “today’s announcement with Google Cloud aims to increase transaction throughput enabling use cases in gaming, supply chain management, and DeFi,” and that “this will pave the way for even more businesses to embrace blockchain technology through Polygon.”
Powerhouse Web2 company Google has been actively advancing into the Web3 space in recent years by opening up more of its technical know-how to project developers. The “Google for Startups Cloud Program” was just just introduced, and it will help companies and new ventures in the Web3 sector scale more quickly and securely.
Additionally, the Celo Foundation announced earlier this month that it was collaborating with Google Cloud to provide training sessions and cloud computing services to programmers and Web3 founders using Celo.
The tech giant claimed that by partnering with Polygon, it will also be able to improve the protocol’s zero-knowledge innovation agenda, possibly resulting in speedier and less expensive transactions. “Initial tests to run Polygon zkEVM’s zero-knowledge proofs on Google Cloud, for instance, resulted in significantly faster and cheaper transactions as compared to the existing setup,” the statement read. Zero-knowledge EthereumCross-chain USDC Transfer Protocol for Ethereum and Avalanche is now available from Circle. Virtual Machine (zkEVM) beta was made available to the public by Polygon last month.
