Google Cloud Officially Becomes a Solana Validator
Google Cloud, one of the biggest cloud service providers in the world, is going to become an irreplaceable part of the Solana network and it will add the blockchain to its wide range of products and services.
The company announced that it will run a block-producing validator that will enable it to participate and validate the Solana network.
Now that we got your attention… check this out: Google Cloud is running a block-producing @solana validator to participate in and validate the network.
— Google Cloud (@googlecloud) November 5, 2022
Besides becoming a validator, Google Cloud is also working to implement its Blockchain Node Engine (BNE) in the Solana ecosystem. Blockchain Node Engine is Google’s node-hosting service, which reduces the need for complex node operations.
BNE was previously utilized only for the Ethereum blockchain and it’s expanding network of developers. Adding Solana to the mix will reduce the time required for running a node on Solana and making it accessible to more users.
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The tech giant also announced that it is currently working on indexing the data from the Solana blockchain and bringing it into BigQuery. Google Cloud’s data storage enables the massive database of the Solana blockchain to be queried quickly and efficiently by relying on the processing power of Google.
After the news broke out Solana (SOL) jumped over 13% and is currently trading a little below $36.
Alexander Stefanov
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Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coinspress and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.
