Polygon Labs and Google Cloud announced a multi-year partnership at the Consensus 2023 conference in which the cloud computing service provider will help drive the development of Ethereum scaling protocol tools and infrastructure.
POLYGON's Core Protocols, Including Polygon Proof-OF-Stake (POS), Polygon Zkevm, and Polygon SuperNets, Will Benefit From the Privele Cloud 'S Framework and Developer Tools. The Partnership Aims to Simplify Developer Integration to Build, Publicish and Grow Web3 PRODUCTS and decentralized applications (DApps) on Polygon. Google Cloud's collaboration with the ecosystem is expected to drive Polygon's zero-knowledge development. Zero-knowledge proof testing of Polygon zkEVM on Google Cloud reportedly resulted in faster and cheaper transactions compared to existing available infrastructure.
Polygon zkEVM beta is an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) scaling solution launching on mainnet in March 2023, helping to reduce transaction costs and increase throughput of smart contract deployments. The Polygon ecosystem will use Google Cloud's blockchain node engine to ass ist with the time-consuming process and expensive overhead of acquiring, maintaining, and operating dedicated blockchain nodes. This specific integration aims to remove the need for Polygon developers to configure and run Polygon PoS nodes.
In a statement accompanying the launch, Polygon Labs President Ryan Wyatt highlighted the wide-ranging benefits brought to the protocol ecosystem through the partnership: “Today's announcement with Google Cloud aims to increase transaction throughput to support use cases in gaming, supply chain management, and DeFi.” Mitesh Agarwal, general manager of engineering and Web3 go-to-market at Google Cloud Asia Pacific, said its service is improving data availability, resiliency and the performance of scaling protocols such as ZK-proofs.
The partnership will also provide capital resources to Polygon ecosystem developers and companies building Web3 products and DApps. Certain early-stage startups backed by Polygon Ventures will also be able to take advantage of the newly launched Web3-specific benefits from the Google for Startups clo ud program . Google Cloud's startup accelerator program now supports 11 major blockchain companies. At the same time, blockchain analytics firm Nansen also announced that its data services will be provided to projects in Google Cloud's Web3 initiative.
