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Google continues to deepen its involvement in the web3 industry, unveiling a new partnership with Polygon and expanding its web3 accelerator program over the past two days.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Google Cloud said it has entered a “multi-year strategic alliance” with Polygon to provide tooling and infrastructure to developers building on Polygon’s PoS Chain, zkEVM, and Supernet’s scaling solutions.<\/p>\n
Google will make its node hosting and management service, the Blockchain Node Engine, available to Polygon PoS Chain node operators as part of the deal between the two firms.<\/p>\n
\u201cDevelopers using Blockchain Node Engine will no longer have to worry about configuring or running their Polygon PoS nodes; they can instead focus on growth,” Google said in an announcement.<\/p>\n
Polygon’s MATIC token reversed earlier losses after the news broke.<\/p>\n
Undeterred by the recent bear trend, Google Cloud Launched<\/a> a dedicated web3 team in May 2022 and has since inked deals with top firms in the sector, including Coinbase, Tezos, and Polygon.<\/p>\n Polygon’s PoS Chain is the fifth-largest smart contract chain with $1B in total value locked, while its recently launched zkEVM secures $5.5M, according to L2Beat.<\/p>\n Google Cloud Launched<\/a> Blockchain Node Engine in October 2022, initially supporting only Ethereum nodes. The platform went live one month after Ethereum completed its transition to Proof of Stake consensus<\/a>, Google Cloud plans to add support for Solana later this year.<\/p>\n Polygon and Google have been working together since October 2021, when Google Cloud made its data analysis platform, BigQuery, available to access on-chain data for Polygon in real-time.<\/p>\nBlockchain Node Engine<\/h4>\n
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