Google Cloud Runs a Solana Validator, Blockchain Node Engine to Support SOL Chain Next Year – Bitcoin News

by Arthur · November 6, 2022

After Google Cloud announced that it would offer a product called “Blockchain Node Engine” and further noted that Ethereum would be the first blockchain to be supported, the company revealed that it ran a Solana validator on November 5, 2022. Google said that the cloud division is working currently with Solana to bring the firm’s Blockchain Node Engine to the Solana chain.

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Google operates a block-producing Solana validator, the firm’s cloud division aims to add Solana to Blockchain Node Engine’s supported blockchains in 2023

Google is moving towards other blockchains after revealing its Blockchain Node Engine in late October. According to a tweet from Google Cloud’s official Twitter account, the firm is already running a Solana validator. “Google Cloud runs a block producer [Solana] validator to participate in and validate the network,” the company tweeted. The company added:

Google Cloud works with [Solana] to bring the Blockchain Node Engine to the Solana chain next year, so it will be easy for anyone to launch a dedicated Solana node in the cloud.

In addition to bringing Blockchain Node Engine support to Solana, Google Cloud will index the Solana blockchain and bring the data to “Big Query” next year. The goal is to “make it easier for the Solana developer ecosystem to access historical data.” Solana’s native token solana (SOL) jumped in value on the announcement and SOL is up 7.8% higher against the US dollar this week.

However, not everyone was excited about Google’s mission to host Solana nodes in the cloud. “This … is not a good thing. More and more centralization. This is like the opposite of crypto,” one person criticised in the Google Cloud announcement thread on Twitter. Another person agreed with the person’s criticism and black: “Crypto was completely redacted in 2017. People are now celebrating centralized and custodial services because it makes their numbers increase.”

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