The Crypto Roundup: 25 September 2023 | CryptoCompare.com

The Crypto Roundup: 25 September 2023 | CryptoCompare.com

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Google Cloud, the tech giant’s cloud computing arm, is intensifying its involvement in the blockchain space, adding 11 new networks including Polygon, Optimism, and Polkadot to its BigQuery program of public datasets.

Back in February 2018, Google Cloud announced its first move into the blockchain space with the addition of Bitcoin blockchain data to BigQuery. Since then, 10 additional blockchains have been added, including Ethereum, Litecoin, and Dogecoin.

BigQuery, described on its webpage as a “serverless and cost-effective enterprise data warehouse” is tailored to cater for “practitioners of various coding skills.” According to Google Cloud, one of its key advantages is allowing users to fetch historical data from an off-chain source faster than they would query the blockchain directly.

Google Cloud’s recent addition includes numerous popular networks such as Ethereum’s Goerli testnet, Cronos, Avalanche, Arbitrum, and Tron. The firm said it’s also improving the Bitcoin BigQuery dataset by adding support for Ordinals.

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