Google Cloud is running a validator on the Solana blockchain, according to an announcement from the company.
The validator will soon add new features that will allow integration for Solana (SOL) developers and node runners.
Following the news on Saturday, SOL rose 12% to around $36.80. It has come back down to $31.51 at the time of writing.
Google Cloud announced on Twitter that besides the validator, the tech giant is also working to add its Blockchain Node Engine to the Solana chain in 2023.
The Blockchain Node Engine is a “fully-managed node hosting service” that already supports the Ethereum blockchain.
Google Web3 product manager Nalin Mittal at Solana’s Breakpoint conference in Lisbon said, “we want to make it one-click to run a Solana node in a cost-effective way.”
Google further added that it has initiated a move that will “make it easier for the Solana developer ecosystem to access historical data” by indexing Solana…
