{"id":182664,"date":"2022-01-31T14:13:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T13:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=182664"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:57:55","slug":"google-cloud-blockchain-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-cloud-blockchain-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Cloud launches team to expand blockchain efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week, an announcement by Google Cloud\u2019s vice president of financial services, Yolande Piazza, confirmed that the firm has set up a <strong>digital assets<\/strong> team to help clients navigate the waters of blockchain-based operations. The team was set up to assist clients with the creation, trading, and storing of value, as well as aiding them in <strong>launching new products across blockchain-based platforms.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google Cloud furthermore promised to give clients access to infrastructure that is scalable, secure, and sustainable. A blog post highlighting the company\u2019s efforts to make blockchain a more <strong>accessible <\/strong>platform also pointed to several organizations that have already implemented Google Cloud, such as Hedera, Dapper Labs, and Theta Labs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Piazza\u2019s announcement also expressed the desire to develop systems that let Google Cloud clients make and receive payments through various <strong>cryptocurrencies<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time Google has dipped its toes into the world of cryptocurrencies. Recently, Google developed Google Pay with the help of a <strong>PayPal <\/strong>veteran to facilitate smoother and faster financial transactions. Google also entered a partnership with Coinbase in June last year, enabling Coinbase customers to make payments for goods and services using Google Pay.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, Google Cloud <strong>infrastructure <\/strong>will ensure that developers can deliver software and data faster on the blockchain and thus give users faster access to applications. Piazza hopes that this new innovation will go a long way in helping users understand and be a part of tomorrow\u2019s blockchain ecosystems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, an announcement by Google Cloud\u2019s vice president of financial services, Yolande Piazza, confirmed that the firm has set up a digital assets team to help clients navigate the waters of blockchain-based operations. The team was set up to assist clients with the creation, trading, and storing of value, as well as aiding them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-cloud-blockchain-efforts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Cloud launches team to expand blockchain efforts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9222,"featured_media":182665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-182664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324471,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182664\/revisions\/324471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182664"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=182664"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=182664"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=182664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}