Google Cloud is running a validator on the Solana blockchain, according to an announcement from the company.
The validator will soon add new features that will allow integration for Solana (SOL) developers and node runners.
Following the news on Saturday, SOL rose 12% to around $36.80. It has come back down to $31.51 at the time of writing.
Google Cloud announced on Twitter that besides the validator, the tech giant is also working to add its Blockchain Node Engine to the Solana chain in 2023.
The Blockchain Node Engine is a “fully-managed node hosting service” that already supports the Ethereum blockchain.
Google Web3 product manager Nalin Mittal at Solana’s Breakpoint conference in Lisbon said, “we want to make it one-click to run a Solana node in a cost-effective way.”
Google further added that it has initiated a move that will “make it easier for the Solana developer ecosystem to access historical data” by indexing Solana data and adding it to its BigQuery data warehouse.
According to Mittal, the feature will launch in the first quarter of 2023.
Mittal also added that “select startups in the Solana ecosystem” has been chosen to try its credits program. There are up to $100,000 in Cloud Credits available for applicants, he said.
Google Cloud introduced the Blockchain Node Engine in late October to help Web3 developers build and deploy new products on blockchain-based platforms.
The latest on the list of firms leveraging blockchain technology functions is Google, with its newly released Blockchain Node Engine aimed at helping web3 development.
Per the company’s announcement, the new solution was debuted to cater to developers’ needs instead of using self-managed nodes that are quite tasking and require consistent management.
Web3 firme koje osjećaju potrebu za namjenskim čvorovima sada mogu koristiti Google Cloud Blockchain Node Engine za prenošenje transakcija, implementaciju pametnih ugovora i čitanje ili pisanje blockchain podataka s očekivanim performansama pouzdanosti i sigurnosti od Google Cloud compute i mrežnog okvira.
Blockchain Node Engine je potpuno upravljana usluga hostinga čvorova koja može minimizirati potrebu za operacijama čvorova.
According to Google, Ethereum will be the first blockchain the Google Cloud’s Blockchain Node Engine will support so as to allow developers to deliver fully managed Ethereum nodes with secure blockchain access.
Programeri koji koriste Blockchain Node Engine mogu imati koristi od jednostavnijeg i bržeg postavljanja novih čvorova sa specificiranom željenom regijom i mrežom (mainnet, testnet), rekao je Google.
Osim toga, Blockchain Node Engine bi ponudio sigurnosne konfiguracije koje mogu pomoći da se izbjegne neodobreni pristup dodijeljenim čvorovima. Takođe bi omogućio potpuno vođene operacije omogućavajući Google Cloud-u da aktivno nadgleda i ponovo pokreće čvorove kada je to potrebno tokom prekida rada.
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