Polygon partners with Google Cloud as Filecoin breaks into cloud market

Google Cloud and Polygon Labs person announced a strategical partnership. Meanwhile, Filecoin has announced its ain unreality work plans.

Google Cloud to volition supply entree to Polygon

Polygon Labs has entered a multi-year statement with Google’s unreality computing division, arsenic announced by some companies connected April 27.

The concern volition spot Google Cloud supply customers with automated entree to Polygon blockchain nodes done its afloat managed node hosting service.

Google Cloud volition besides lend unreality services that enactment Polygon’s caller zkEVM scaling solution. Polygon Labs said that executing the network’s zero-knowledge proofs connected Google Cloud is “significantly faster and cheaper” than its existent approach.

The concern volition additionally supply features related to Polygon Supernets — described arsenic a “dedicated app-chain” — by the extremity of the 3rd 4th of 2023.

Plus, caller Polygon-backed startups volition beryllium capable to person backing including $200,000 successful Google Cloud credits. This backing is portion of a broader acceptable of benefits that widen to different Web3-related startups, arsenic announced by Google Cloud connected April 25.

The concern announcement notes that Google Cloud already offers immoderate enactment for Polygon: Polygon proof-of-stake nodes are disposable done the Google Cloud marketplace, and Polygon has been included successful Google Cloud datasets since 2021.

Filecoin aims to supply unreality services

Elsewhere, Filecoin has announced a stack of services intended arsenic a decentralized alternate to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Azure.

The caller work stack includes entree to information storage, a information retention market, woody absorption tools, lawsuit engagement tools, dataset processing tools, and tools that let customers to upload and retrieve data. The work stack volition additionally see tools with functions called Filecoin Web Infrastructure (FWI).

Filecoin already offers basal decentralized information storage, allowing users to gain crypto tokens by providing unreality storage. The project’s genitor company, Protocol Labs, is besides liable for IPFS, a decentralized retention network.

Filecoin seems to person constricted resources contempt its ambitions. Protocol Labs announced successful February 2023 that it would laic disconnected 20% of its staff.

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