Polygon Labs and Google Cloud have announced a multi-year partnership to enhance the development of Ethereum scaling protocol tools and infrastructure. The partnership aims to streamline the integration of developers to build and launch Web3 products and decentralized applications on Polygon.

Polygon’s core protocols, including Polygon proof-of-stake (PoS), Polygon zkEVM, and Polygon Supernets, will benefit from Google Cloud’s framework and developer tools.

The partnership between Polygon and Google Cloud is expected to advance Polygon’s zero-knowledge development. Testing of Polygon zkEVM’s zero-knowledge proofs on Google Cloud reportedly resulted in faster and cheaper transactions compared to existing infrastructure.

Polygon’s zkEVM beta, an Ethereum Virtual Machine scaling solution, was launched to mainnet in March 2023, leading to reduced transaction costs and increased throughput of smart contract deployments. To assist with the time-intensive processes and costly overheads of acquiring, maintaining, and operating dedicated blockchain nodes, the Polygon ecosystem will use Google Cloud’s Blockchain Node Engine. This specific integration aims to remove the need for Polygon developers to configure and run Polygon PoS nodes.

The partnership between Polygon Labs and Google Cloud will provide capital resources to Polygon ecosystem developers and companies building Web3 products and DApps. Early-stage Polygon Ventures-backed startups will be able to receive newly launched Web3-specific benefits from the Google for Startups Cloud Program.

Polygon Labs president Ryan Wyatt stated that the collaboration with Google Cloud aims to increase transaction throughput, enabling use cases in gaming, supply chain management, and DeFi. Google Cloud’s APAC managing director of engineering and Web3 go-to-market, Mitesh Agarwal, said that the company’s services are improving data availability, resilience, and performance of scaling protocols like ZK-proofs.

This partnership is a part of Google Cloud’s startup accelerator program, which now supports 11 major blockchain firms. Additionally, Nansen, a blockchain analytics firm, announced that its data services would be available to projects in Google Cloud’s Web3 startup program.

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