- Polygon Labs has introduced that Google Cloud is now a validator on Polygon PoS community.
- The brand new validator will deliver “similar infrastructure” powering YouTube and Gmail.
- Google Cloud joins latest addition Deutsche Telekom.
Polygon Labs has announced that Google Cloud is now formally a validator on the Polygon PoS community. The corporate revealed the event in a publish on X on September 29.
Google Cloud joins Polygon’s validators
In line with Polygon Labs, Google’s cloud computing platform has joined over 100 validators on the main Ethereum layer 2 community.
“Excessive-quality, trusted, security-minded validators like Google Cloud present an added layer of safety for Heimdall, Bor, and Polygon PoS customers,” the Polygon developer workforce famous.
Within the proof-of-stake blockchain world, validators are key as they function the nodes that assist safe the community by way of a course of known as staking. The native token MATIC is used on this essential community operation. Google Cloud will assist safe Polygon on this method, which Polygon Labs says will see “the identical infrastructure used to energy YouTube and Gmail” now assist in securing the Ethereum L2 protocol.
Right this moment’s information follows Google Cloud’s latest announcement of its assist for eleven extra blockchains for its BigQuery public datasets. One of the networks added was Polygon PoS.
In June, Germany’s telecommunications large Deutsche Telekom joined Polygon’s validator group.