Google Cloud is now a validator on the Polygon network

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According to Polygon, “the aforesaid infrastructure utilized to powerfulness YouTube and Gmail” volition assistance unafraid its network.

Google Cloud is present  a validator connected  the Polygon network

Polygon Labs announced connected Sep. 29 that Google Cloud has joined the Polygon PoS web arsenic a validator. 

Google Cloud joins much than 100 different validators verifying transactions connected its L2 Ethereum network.

This month, @GoogleCloud became portion of the decentralized validator acceptable for Polygon PoS.

The aforesaid infrastructure utilized to powerfulness @YouTube and @gmail is present helping to unafraid the fast, low-cost, Ethereum-for-all Polygon protocol.

With 100+ validators securing the Polygon PoS…

— Polygon (Labs) (@0xPolygonLabs) September 29, 2023

Per a station from Polygon Labs connected the X level announcing the partnership:

“The aforesaid infrastructure utilized to powerfulness YouTube and Gmail is present helping to unafraid the fast, low-cost, Ethereum-for-all Polygon protocol.”

Validators connected the Polygon web assistance unafraid the web by operating nodes, staking MATIC, and participating successful proof-of-stake statement mechanics.

Separately, larn much astir our enactment successful the blockchain space, successful an ongoing strategical collaboration with @0xPolygonLabs https://t.co/r6yAtUSXEc

— Google Cloud Singapore (@GoogleCloud_SG) September 29, 2023

The Google Cloud Singapore relationship confirmed connected X that Google Cloud was “now serving arsenic a validator connected the Polygon PoS network,” adding that it would beryllium “contributing to the network's corporate security, governance, and decentralization alongside 100+ different validators.”

Image source: Polygon Staking

While galore of the validators are anonymous, arsenic Cointelegraph precocious reported, Google Cloud joins Germany's Deutsche Telekom, 1 of Europe’s largest telecommunications firms, connected the Polygon network.

For its part, Google Cloud describes its narration with Polygon Labs arsenic “an ongoing strategical collaboration.” Alongside the announcement that it would beryllium joining the web arsenic a validator, Google Cloud APAC besides released a YouTube video titled “Polygon Labs is solving for a Web3 aboriginal for all.”

Polygon Labs precocious launched its “Polygon 2.0” inaugural to update the Polygon network. As Cointelegraph reported, “Phase 0,” the existent phase, features 3 Polygon Improvement Proposals (PIPs), PIPs 17-19.

PIP 17 involves the modulation from MATIC to caller token POL, whilst PIPs 18 and 19 code supporting endeavors specified arsenic the method statement of POL and updating state tokens. According to Polygon, these changes are slated to statesman taking spot successful Q4 2023.

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