Polygon Labs and Google Cloud announced at Consensus 2023 a multi-year partnership under which the cloud computing service provider will help drive the development of Ethereum (ETH) scaling protocol tools and infrastructure.
Polygon’s core protocols, including Polygon PoS (proof-of-stake), Polygon zkEVM, and Polygon Supernets, will benefit from the Google Cloud framework and developer tools. The partnership aims to simplify the onboarding of developers to build, launch, and grow Web3 products and decentralized applications (DApps) on Polygon.
Google Cloud’s partnership with the ecosystem is expected to advance Polygon’s zero-knowledge development. Testing of Polygon zkEVM’s zero-knowledge proofs (zk-proofs) on Google Cloud has resulted in faster and cheaper transactions compared to existing infrastructure.
Polygon zkEVM, an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) scaling solution, beta launched on mainnet in March 2023, driving lower transaction costs and increased performance of smart contract deployments.
The Polygon ecosystem will use Google Cloud’s Blockchain Node Engine to help with the time-consuming processes and costly overhead of acquiring, maintaining, and operating dedicated blockchain nodes. This specific integration is intended to eliminate the need for Polygon developers to set up and run Polygon PoS nodes.
Polygon Labs President Ryan Wyatt highlighted the wide variety of ecosystem benefits of the protocol through the partnership in a statement to coincide with the launch of the collaboration:
“Today’s announcement with Google Cloud aims to increase transaction performance by enabling use cases in gaming, supply chain management, and DeFi.”
Mitesh Agarwal, general manager of engineering and marketing for Web3 at Google Cloud APAC, has said that his services improve data availability, resiliency, and performance of scaling protocols such as zk-proofs.
The partnership will also provide capital resources to developers in the Polygon ecosystem and companies building Web3 products and DApps.. Certain early-stage startups backed by Polygon Ventures will also be eligible to receive Web3-specific benefits recently launched by the Google for Startups Cloud program.
The Google Cloud Startup Accelerator Program now supports 11 major blockchain companies. For his part, Blockchain analytics firm Nansen has also announced that its data services will be available to Google Cloud’s Web3 startup program projects.
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