Google Cloud announces dedicated digital assets team

Google Cloud has announced a new, dedicated Digital Assets Team within Google Cloud to build, transact, store value, and deploy products on blockchain-based platforms. The new team will build on Google’s existing work with blockchain developers, exchanges, and other companies in this space.

Currently, blockchain and distributed-ledger-based companies like Hedera, Theta Labs, and Dapper Labs are built on top of Google Cloud for scalability, flexibility, and security. Moving forward, Google Cloud’s Digital Assets Team will undertake short and long term initiatives to support companies in the digital assets/blockchain ecosystem. The steps include providing dedicated node hosting/remote procedure call (RPC) nodes for developers, allowing users to deploy blockchain validators on…