U.Today - Zilliqa, a high-performance L1 blockchain, is going to advance its performance, accessibility, transparency and bandwidth with a collaboration scored today with Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Cloud.
Zilliqa announces strategic alliance with Google Cloud
Zilliqa Group, the development entity behid Zilliqa blockchain, announced a multiyear strategic alliance with Google Cloud today, Sept. 13, 2023, at TOKEN2049 crypto conference in Singapore. Per the official statement by the Zilliqa team, the partnership will cover infrastructure-related aspects of its progress.As the partnership kicks off, decentralized applications on Zilliqa blockchain will benefit from a robust, resilient and attack-resistant infrastructure by Google Cloud.
Matt Dyer, a CEO of the Zilliqa Group, stressed the importance of this collaboration for the technical and marketing roadmaps of Zilliqa blockchain and its ecosystem of decentralized applications:
As covered by U.Today previously, in May 2023, teamed up with Flare blockchain. Ripple's ally Flare launched API endpoints on Google Cloud's infrastructure marketplace.
Google Cloud becomes staked seed node (SSN) operator with Zilliqa
James Tromans, head of Web3, Google Cloud, is excited by the new collaboration his team scored in the blockchain segment and the vision of Zilliqa's ecosystem:Within the framework of the new partnership, Google Cloud also joins the set of 28 staked seed node (SSN) operators on the Zilliqa network. This means that the computational resources of Google Cloud will be used to protect the integrity and operability of Zilliqa transactions and blocks.
In July 2023, Zilliqa underwent a major of its codebase. Thanks to the v9.2.0 upgrade, the blockchain became fully interoperable with Ethereum Virtual Machine and increased its overall performance.