- Google’s cloud services platform added 11 Blockchain companies to the Web3 Startups program whose objective is to help them accelerate their growth.
- The companies that have joined the Google Cloud program are: Alchemy, Aptos, Base, Celo, Flow, Hedera, Nansen, Near, Polygon, Solana and Thirdweb.
The increase in popularity of blockchain technology together with the prevailing need to increase decentralization is pushing Web2 companies to start taking steps in favor of Web3.
For those who may not know, Web3 is the vision of what the Internet of the future will be like. Instead of having a web controlled by big companies (like Google), seeks to hand over ownership and power to users.
As the usability of the blockchain has been recognized, startups have emerged with the aim of contributing to or even making the idea of Web3 a reality, and as a demonstration of this, Google Cloud has incorporated some well-known Web3 firms into its Web3 Startups program that provides them with technical tools and cloud services for Serie A companies.
Helping build Web3
Although Web3 is not yet a reality, we see how Web2 companies are beginning to bet on that future that the crypto community is looking for.
Google advertisement on April 25 that the Google Cloud program now includes companies such as: Alchemy, Aptos, Base, Celo, Flow, Hedera, Nansen, Near, Polygon, Solana and Thirdweb.
What are the benefits of belonging to the Web3 Startups program?
Eligible companies can receive up to $200,000 USD in Google Cloud credits, for two years. In addition, they get access to important events such as the Paris Blockchain Week or Consensus. Google Cloud also offers them technical support.
James Tromans, lead engineer for Web3 at Google Cloud, assured Decrypt that the main objective is to offer “lWeb3 developers a reliable, scalable and sustainable infrastructure on which to build their applications”,
In other words, Google Cloud is working the ground to become the company of choice for start-up companies that want to develop Web3 products.
“These companies count on us to not only be experts in their specific product offering, but also expect us to be experts in all the other Web3 technologies surrounding that product.added Tromanes.
He also assured CoinDesk that Google Cloud is committed to “supporting the growth of the Web3 ecosystem.”
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