Google Cloud on Thursday announced the launch of a new dedicated Digital Assets Team within Google Cloud to support its customers’ needs in building, transacting, storing value and deploying new products on blockchain-based platforms.
This new team will enable Google Cloud’s customers to accelerate their efforts in this emerging space and help underpin the blockchain ecosystems of tomorrow.
Google Cloud’s Digital Assets Team will undertake several short- and long-term initiatives to support companies in the digital assets/blockchain ecosystem, including:
- Providing dedicated node hosting/remote procedure call (RPC) nodes for developers, allowing users to deploy blockchain validators on Google Cloud via a single click (“click to deploy”).
- Participating in node validation and on-chain governance with select partners.
- Helping developers and users host their nodes on the cleanest cloud in the industry, supporting their environmental, social, and governance initiatives.
- Supporting on-chain governance via participation from Google Cloud executives and senior engineers.
- Hosting several public BigQuery datasets on our Marketplace, including full blockchain transaction history for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Litecoin, Zcash, Theta, Hedera Hashgraph, Band Protocol, Polygon, XRP, and Dogecoin.
- Driving co-development and integration into Google’s robust partner ecosystem, including participating in the Google Cloud Marketplace.
- Embracing joint go-to-market initiatives with our ecosystem partners where Google Cloud can be the connective tissue between traditional enterprise and blockchain technologies.
The company also revealed that it is exploring opportunities in the future to enable Google Cloud customers to make and receive payments using cryptocurrencies and also ensure that data, applications, games, or digital assets like NFTs will be delivered on a stable, secure, and trusted global network.
Yolande Piazza, VP, Financial Services, Google Cloud said, “We’re inspired by the work already done in the digital assets space by our customers, and we look forward to providing the infrastructure and technologies to support what’s possible with blockchain technologies in the future. If you’re eager to learn more about Google Cloud’s new Digital Assets Team, please reach out to your Google Cloud sales representative or partner manager.”
