Google Unveils Blockchain Node Engine Offering Ethereum the First Support

On Thursday, October 27, tech giant Google unveiled the Blockchain Node Engine. The goal of the new service is to make it easy for users to setup a brand new node and further eliminate the complications of hitting the node on the hardware.

Google stated that the Blockchain Node Engine will be a fully-managed node hosting service for Web3 development. The reason behind this release is that Google believes “self-managed nodes are often difficult to deploy and require constant management.”

This service from Google can be leveraged by different Web3 service providers as well as crypto companies. Interestingly, Google also revealed that the world’s second-largest blockchain platform Ethereum will be the first to get the support for Blockchain Node Engine. In its blog post, Google noted: “Ethereum will be the first blockchain supported by Blockchain Node Engine, enabling developers to provision fully managed Ethereum nodes with secure blockchain access”.

Earlier this year, Google was already focusing on assembling a Web3 team. Back then Google was eyeing to offer hosting services for blockchain developers. Back then, a Google spokesperson said: “We’re providing technologies for companies to use and take advantage of the distributed nature of Web3 in their current businesses and enterprises”.

With its Blockchain Nice Engine service, Google will offer Web3 players “secure development”, “streamlined provisioning”, and “fully managed operations”. In the blog post, Google mentions: “Web3 companies who require dedicated nodes can relay transactions, deploy smart contracts, and read or write blockchain data with the reliability, performance, and security they expect from Google Cloud compute and network infrastructure”.

The BNE service from Google will reduce the need of having a dedicated Devops team. Also, with Google’s Cloud Service legal agreement, your Web3 team can focus on users instead of worrying about the infrastructure challenges.

Over the last few months, Google has shown strong interest with innovation in the Web3 space. To cater to a large number of Web3 players, Google recently announced its partnership with crypto exchange Coinbase. As part of the deal, Coinbase will move its entire data-related services from AWS to Google Cloud. On the other hand, Google Cloud will allow its clients to make payments in cryptocurrencies.

With the latest development, Google said: “We look forward to supporting organizations with a reliable, easy-to-use blockchain node hosting service so they can focus their time on innovating and scaling their Web3 applications".