With the addition of 11 new networks to its ‘BigQuery’ programme for public datasets, including Polygon, Optimism, and Polkadot, Google’s cloud computing division is increasing its push into the blockchain space.
The organisation, Google Cloud, first announced that Bitcoin blockchain data was accessible for research through the programme in a post that was published in February 2018. Ten new networks, including Ethereum, Litecoin, and Dogecoin, have been added since then.
According to the program’s website, BigQuery is a “serverless and affordable enterprise data warehouse,” created for “practitioners of various coding skills.”
Google Cloud claims that one major benefit is that customers may be able to get historical data from an off-chain provider more quickly than by directly querying the blockchain.
The statement on Friday comes as Google Cloud announces that it is stepping up its blockchain efforts despite the fact that the sector is still suffering from the “crypto winter” market slump.
In an interview last week, James Tromans, the global head of Web3, Google Cloud, said, “Over the past 18 months we’ve been investing in this space, we’ve continued to hire, we’ve continued to grow not only our business development and our go-to-market teams, but also our product and engineering capabilities. “We’re really beginning to show that we’re not just fly-by-night and not just here when the time is going well.”