Google Cloud adds Casper Labs to its growing portfolio of Web3 partnerships

As part of the partnership, Casper Labs will move part of its infrastructure to Google Cloud servers as well as give developers working on the Casper blockchain access to the cloud provider’s storage and hosting space.

“This collaboration really helps ensure that we make things really accessible to people who want to use this technology but just don’t know how,” said Mrinal Manohar, cofounder and CEO of Casper Labs. luck.

The addition of Casper Labs, which launched Casper in March 2021to a growing list of blockchain partnerships is the latest in a series of moves by Google to increase its presence on the Web3 as it competes with Amazon Web Services, that is announces its own partnership with blockchain labs and foundations. Google Cloud’s merger with Casper Labs could also be an attempt to diversify its Web3 portfolio, as Casper markets its technology to large enterprises and government agencies.

Manohar speculates that Casper’s focus on large institutions, which are “really sticky, long-term customers,” is attractive to Google Cloud. A spokesman for Google’s cloud computing arm declined to elaborate on why it chose Casper but pointed to a statement from James Tromans, Web3 engineering director at Google Cloud, who said that by working with Casper Labs, Google Cloud “provides a secure, reliable, and sustainable cloud infrastructure for developers. “

Unlike other blockchains, Casper has a mix of add-ons that make it attractive for large organizations, Manohar said. This includes its use of existing programming languages, not those developed specifically for the blockchain, as well as the ability of users to mix private blockchains with its public chain. (This feature is especially important, he says, when dealing with sensitive information, such as Social Security ID numbers.)

While Manohar said he couldn’t reveal all of Casper Labs’ customers, he pointed to his partnership with IPwea patent business, as an example.

Google Cloud’s collaboration with Casper Labs is the latest public step in the Web3 world. In the first half of 2022, it announced its creation digital assets and Web3 teams. In the fall of 2022, it revealed one of its first offers, a partnership with Coinbase to allow some of Google Cloud’s customers to pay for server space using cryptocurrency. It then launched the Blockchain Node Enginea streamlined way for developers to access and use blockchains on Google servers.

Google Cloud’s Blockchain Node Engine currently only supports Ethereum, and will support Solana in the near future, a spokesperson said. At the same time, the cloud computing giant cooperates with other blockchain and blockchain developers, including fittingly and BNB chain, in different ways. Last week, before announcing the Casper Labs tie-up, Google Cloud said it would partner of the Tezos Foundationwhich promotes the use and development of the Tezos blockchain.

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