According to Foresight News, Layer 1 blockchain Zilliqa announced a multi-year strategic alliance with Google Cloud at the TOKEN2049 conference. This collaboration aims to enhance the scalability, elasticity, and data availability of the Zilliqa blockchain protocol. Google Cloud will become a staking seed node (SSN) operator on the Zilliqa network, joining the existing 28 SSN operators, providing node infrastructure hosting services, and helping to verify transactions across the network.

In addition, Zilliqa Group has chosen Google Cloud as its strategic cloud provider, leveraging Google Cloud's open, secure, scalable, and energy-efficient infrastructure and services to enhance the flexibility, elasticity, and data availability of its blockchain.