Polygon Labs and Google Cloud will team up to drive the improvement and adoption of the infrastructure and developer tools of the Ethereum scaling protocol.
Polygon’s core protocols, including Polygon PoS (proof-of-stake), Polygon zkEVM, and Polygon Supernets, will benefit from Google Cloud’s framework and developer tools provisioning. The partnership aims to simplify developer integration to build, launch and grow Web3 products and decentralized applications on Polygon.
Transactions will be faster and cheaper
Google Cloud’s partnership with the ecosystem is expected to advance Polygon’s zero-knowledge development.
Testing the zero-knowledge proofs of Polygon zkEVM on Google Cloud reportedly resulted in faster and cheaper transactions compared to existing infrastructure. Polygon zkEVM beta, an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) scaling solution, was released to the mainnet in March 2023. Thanks to the zkEVM beta, transaction costs on the network have decreased, while the efficiency of smart contract deployments has increased.
Google Cloud’s Blockchain Node Engine will be used by the Polygon ecosystem to assist with the time-consuming and costly overheads of acquiring, maintaining and operating private blockchain nodes. This particular integration aims to eliminate the need for Polygon developers to configure and operate Polygon PoS nodes.
Making a statement on the subject, Ryan Wyatt, president of Polygon Labs, underlined the wide range of benefits that the protocol will provide to the ecosystem through the partnership. In his speech, Wyatt said: “Today’s announcement with Google Cloud aims to increase transaction volume by enabling use cases in gaming, supply chain management and DeFi.”
The partnership will also provide capital resources to Polygon ecosystem developers, companies that develop Web3 products and dApps. Some early-stage Polygon Ventures-backed startups will also be able to take advantage of the Google for Startups Cloud program and the newly launched Web3-exclusive benefits.
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