- Polygon Labs announced that Google Cloud is now a validator for the Polygon PoS network.
- The new validator provides “the same infrastructure” that supports YouTube and Gmail.
- Google Cloud recently joined Deutsche Telekom.
Polygon Labs presentation Google Cloud is now officially a validator for the Polygon PoS network. The company revealed the development in a post on X on September 29th.
Google Cloud joins Polygon’s checker
Google’s cloud computing platform joins more than 100 validators from the leading Ethereum layer 2 network, according to Polygon Labs.
“A trusted, security-conscious, high-quality validator like Google Cloud provides an additional layer of security for Heimdall, Bor, and Polygon PoS users,” said the Polygon developer team.
In the world of proof-of-stake blockchains, validators are key as they operate nodes that help secure the network through a process called staking. The native token MATIC is used for this important network operation. Google Cloud will help secure Polygon in this way, and Polygon Labs says that “the same infrastructure used to power YouTube and Gmail” will now help secure the Ethereum L2 protocol.
Today’s news follows the recent announcement that Google Cloud is supporting 11 additional blockchains for BigQuery public datasets. One of the networks added was Polygon PoS..
In June, German telecom giant Deutsche Telekom joined Polygon’s validator group.