- The collaborations aim to increase the adoption of Polygon’s platforms – Polygon PoS, Polygon supernets, and zkEVM.
- It is centered around Google Blockchain Node Engine released last year.
Google Cloud and Polygon have joined forces to make it easy for Web 3 developers to create, launch and expand their Web 3 products and decentralized applications (dApps) on Polygon protocols.
The collaboration, a multi-year alliance announced on April 27, specifically aims to accelerate the adoption of Polygon platforms – Polygon PoS, Polygon Supernets, and zkEVM – with Google Cloud infrastructure and developer tools.
Having Google Cloud as a strategic cloud provider for Polygon protocols would reportedly save developers time and costs of operating dedicated blockchain nodes. Last year, Google announced a blockchain node engine, a fully managed hosting service for Web 3 developers.
‘‘Google Cloud supporting all of the Polygon protocols is a step in the right direction to help broaden more people into Web 3,’’ commented Ryan Wyatt, President Polygon Labs, adding that the collaboration with Google Cloud ”would increase transaction throughput, enabling use cases in gaming, supply chain management, and DeFi.”
Polygon’s zkEVM Technology
More importantly, Google Cloud said the partnership is important in enhancing Polygon’s zero knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM), whose beta launched on the Ethereum mainnet in March. The technology, which enables data validation without revealing the actual data, aims to improve the scalability of dApps built on Ethereum.
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Additionally, Polygon recently integrated a PoS bridge to zkEVM for users to complete transactions on Ethereum with instant finality using smart contracts.
