Tech heavyweight Google is reportedly releasing an in-house Blockchain Node Engine (BNE) operating upon Google Cloud. 

Specifically, functioning as a node-hosting service, BNE reportedly offers facilitating features for Web3 firms to relay transactions, deploy smart contracts, and read or write blockchain data in a direct manner across Google Cloud. 

Ethereum will be the pioneering blockchain selected to receive facilitation from BNE. 

“Today, manually deploying a node is a time-intensive process that involves provisioning a compute instance, installing an Ethereum client, and waiting for the node to sync with the network. […] Google Cloud’s BNE can make this process faster and easier by allowing developers to deploy a new node with a single operation and specify the desired region and network.”

The service reportedly has a primary target of putting nodes behind a virtual private cloud firewall, offering access to solely trusted machines and users to communicate with endpoints. 

Moreover, services like Google Cloud Armor would provide protection for the nodes against distributed denial-of-service attacks. 

Operating as a fully managed offering, BNE will also have its own developer team on-call to monitor for potential outages.

Google has been displaying an active stance throughout the Web3 sphere, when it comes to business development. Previously, Google forged an alliance with Near Protocol to offer technical assistance for the latter’s grant recipients.

Two weeks before that event, the tech heavyweight entered a collaboration with Coinbase to integrate crypto payments into its cloud services.