Google Cloud is now a validator on Polygon

• 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 current addition Deutsche Telekom.

Polygon Labs has introduced that Google Cloud is now formally a validator on the Polygon PoS community. The corporate revealed the event in a put up on X on September 29.

Google Cloud joins Polygon’s validators

In keeping 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 crew 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 now’s information follows Google Cloud’s current announcement of its help for eleven extra blockchains for its BigQuery public datasets. One of many networks added was Polygon PoS.

In June, Germany’s telecommunications big Deutsche Telekom joined Polygon’s validator group.