Polygon Labs and Google Cloud Join Forces to Boost Ethereum Scaling Protocol Development
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The Ethereum scaling protocol is set to benefit from a multi-year agreement between Polygon Labs and Google Cloud announced at Consensus 2023. Under the agreement, Google Cloud will provide its framework and developer tools to Polygon’s core protocols, including Polygon PoS (proof-of-stake), Polygon zkEVM and Polygon Supernets. The partnership is aimed at simplifying the integration of developers to build, launch, and grow Web3 products and decentralized applications (DApps) on Polygon.
Google Cloud’s Blockchain Node Engine will be used by the Polygon ecosystem to help with the time-consuming and costly process of acquiring, maintaining, and operating dedicated blockchain nodes. This integration will remove the need for Polygon developers to configure and run Polygon PoS nodes. The partnership is also expected to advance Polygon’s zero-knowledge development, with testing of Polygon zkEVM’s zero-knowledge proofs (zk-proofs) on Google Cloud reportedly resulting in faster and cheaper transactions.
Polygon Labs president Ryan Wyatt commented on the benefits of the partnership to the protocol’s ecosystem. “The partnership with Google Cloud will provide capital resources to Polygon ecosystem developers and companies building Web3 products and DApps. Certain early-stage Polygon Ventures-backed startups will also be able to receive newly-launched Web3-specific benefits from the Google for Startups Cloud Program.”
Google Cloud’s APAC managing director of engineering and Web3 go-to-market Mitesh Agarwal also praised the agreement, saying that its services are improving data availability, resilience and performance of scaling protocols like zk-proofs.
The partnership between Polygon Labs and Google Cloud is a significant step forward for the Ethereum scaling protocol. Google Cloud’s framework and developer tools will make it easier for developers to build, launch, and grow Web3 products and DApps on Polygon. The partnership also promises to advance Polygon’s zero-knowledge development, with testing of Polygon zkEVM’s zero-knowledge proofs on Google Cloud reportedly resulting in faster and cheaper transactions. Finally, the agreement will provide capital resources to Polygon ecosystem developers and companies building Web3 products and DApps, as well as offering certain early-stage Polygon Ventures-backed startups newly-launched Web3-specific benefits from the Google for Startups Cloud Program.
