KEY POINTS
- Polygon’s collaboration with Google Cloud began in April
- Google Cloud has staked 10,451 MATIC, Polygon community’s native cryptocurrency
- In September, Google Cloud added Polygon to its Large Question
Blockchain platform Polygon now boasts the identical infrastructure that powers YouTube and Gmail as Google Cloud turns into one in all its validators.
Google Cloud, a collection of public cloud computing providers provided by search engine large Google, is now an official validator for the layer-2 blockchain Polygon proof-of-stake (PoS) community, becoming a member of greater than 100 different validators in securing the community.
“This month, @GoogleCloud grew to become a part of the decentralized validator set for Polygon PoS,” Polygon mentioned in its announcement.
“With 100+ validators securing the Polygon PoS Community, Google Cloud is in good firm,” it added.
Polygon additionally introduced that “the identical infrastructure used to energy @YouTube and @gmail is now serving to to safe the quick, low-cost, Ethereum-for-all Polygon protocol,” including that “high-quality, trusted, security-minded validators like Google Cloud present an added layer of safety for Heimdall, Bor and Polygon PoS customers.”
Polygon additionally disclosed that Google Cloud has staked 10,451 MATIC, the native cryptocurrency of the Polygon community.
Regardless of its title within the trade, Google Cloud is among the validators with the bottom quantity of MATIC staked, which is value simply $5,300.
“We at the moment are serving as a validator on the Polygon PoS community, contributing to the community’s collective safety, governance and decentralization alongside 100+ different validators,” Google Cloud introduced on X, previously Twitter, on Sept. 29.
Polygon‘s collaboration with Google Cloud began in April, with each firms saying on the time that the partnership had a number of objectives.
“Google Cloud and Polygon Labs introduced a multi-year strategic alliance to speed up the adoption of core Polygon protocols, together with Polygon PoS (level of sale), Polygon Supernets and Polygon zkEVM, with Google Cloud infrastructure and developer instruments,” Polygon mentioned.
In September, Google’s cloud-computing enterprise expanded its push into blockchain because it added 11 networks to its Large Question program for public datasets.
BigQuery, as outlined by its official website, is a “serverless and cost-effective enterprise information warehouse” designed for “practitioners of varied coding expertise.”
Among the many networks added by Google Cloud had been Polygon, Polkadot and Optimism.
It’s value noting that whereas the partnership between Google Cloud and Polygon is in depth, it isn’t one in all a sort since Google Cloud has already made related validator partnerships with different blockchain networks up to now, together with Tezos, Ronin Community, Celo, Voltage and Solana.
Nonetheless, apart from Google Cloud, Polygon has additionally gained the curiosity of huge techs in its ecosystem.
Earlier this 12 months, German telecommunications firm Deutsche Telekom grew to become a community validator for Polygon.
“The Polygon ecosystem could be very developer-friendly and resource-efficient. It’s primarily based on the very best safety requirements of the Ethereum ecosystem,” Dirk Röder, head of the Blockchain Options Middle at Deutsche Telekom, said.
“The collaboration with Polygon is a crucial step for Deutsche Telekom MMS to completely exploit the potential of blockchain know-how and allow functions appropriate for mass deployment. Deutsche Telekom MMS additionally helps Polygon staking, contributing to the safety and decentralization of the blockchain,” he added.