Polygon Labs merges its PoS, Supernets, and zkEVM protocols with Google Cloud infrastructure to accelerate growth and improve performance of its blockchain ecosystem.
Polygon, one of the most well-known Layer 2 solutions for Ethereum scalability and one of the most important blockchain ecosystems in the crypto industry, has joined Google Cloud, Google’s cloud computing services platform, to accelerate the development and growth of new tools, products and applications based on its PoS, Supernets and zkEVM protocols.
Brendan Farmer, co-founder of Polygon and co-director of the Polygon Zero team, said during the Consensus 2023 conference in Austin, Texas, that Google's infrastructure will provide DApp developers with new tools that allow them to build and deploy decentralized applications more easily, to focus on scalability, growth, and productivity.
The partnership allows Google to continue advancing in the blockchain ecosystem by extending its fully managed node hosting service, called Blockchain Node Engine, to the Polygon Network ecosystem.
In the fourth quarter of 2022, Google announced the launch of its Crypto node hosting service for developers Solana blockchain. Later in November, it announced support for the Ethereum network and, in February, for Tezos. DApp developers using this hosting service will no longer have to worry about setting up and running nodes, allowing them to focus more directly on developing their DApps.
Polygon and Google will boost Web3
Through its partnership with Google, Polygon seeks to increase the innovation, security, and decentralization of its blockchain ecosystem with the goal of boosting transaction throughput while accelerating the development of new use cases within the gaming industry, supply chain management, and the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.
“This will pave the way for even more companies to adopt blockchain technology through Polygon”, assured Ryan Wyatt, president of Polygon Labs.
On the other hand, Mitesh Agarwal, general manager of client engineering and Web3 at Google Cloud for the Asia Pacific region, highlighted the growing interest that the opportunities offered by the blockchain and Web3 industry have sparked in large corporations, which has led Google to dedicate its engineering efforts to areas such as improving data availability and the resilience and performance of scaling protocols, including those based on zero-knowledge proofs, in order to accelerate adoption and minimize potential risks.
Google Advantages for DApps Developers
The alliance between Polygon Labs and Google will bring multiple benefits for DApp developers, who will be able to power their decentralized applications by integrating tools such as BigQuery, Google Cloud's serverless enterprise data warehouse, to analyze data in real time.
By the end of Q3, Polygon Labs will enable deployments to devnets on Google Cloud that will enable developers to build applications based on specific needs.
The Layer 2 scalability solution will also provide developers with new resources to boost the scaling of their applications and protocols, especially those based on zero-knowledge (ZK) technology.
Additionally, through Polygon Ventures, developers will have the opportunity to access Web3-specific benefits and advantages announced through the Google for Startups Cloud program, as well as exclusive access to Google's learning labs. Another benefit that Google will provide to companies supported by Polygon Ventures is the allocation of server hosting credits for up to two years.
Big brands take over Polygon
The Polygon Network and its various protocols, including Polygon PoS and zkEVM, are being used by the world's major brands, such as Gucci, Starbucks, Mercedes-Benz and Nike, among others, as a gateway to Web3, the new decentralized web built on the blockchain.
At press time, the price of MATC, the native token of the Polygon network, shows a slight growth of 0,3%, trading at around $0,994 per unit, according to data from CoinMarketCap.
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