Google Cloud already runs validation nodes for various blockchains and will now become a corporate baker for the Tezos proof-of-stake blockchain. The term ‘baker’ is the Tezos equivalent of the operator of a validation node.

Decrypt was the first to report the news.

Hedera Hashgraph was the first distributed ledger to attract Google Cloud as a node operator more than three years ago when it joined the Governing Council of the network. Since then, Google Cloud has become a validator or supplied nodes for the Theta, Flow, video blockchain. Solarium and Ronin. In October, he introduced a managed hosting service for Ethereum nodes and increased his involvement in the industry at that time.

Ubisoft is one of the highest-profile existing corporate bakers on Tezos, and the blockchain has also been used for CBDC testing with the Banque de France and Societe Generale.

Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems is another cloud company that is a validation node operator for Celo and Flow, as well as providing staking services for Ethereum.