Google Cloud Unveils Blockchain Toolkit For Developers, Partners With Digital Asset and BlockApps

During the Google Cloud Next ’18 conference in San Francisco starting Tuesday, July 24, the tech giant announced that its cloud platform now supports the blockchain technology. As a result of this, Google Cloud users will now be able to develop blockchain solutions for enterprise clients.

The discussion was conducted on “Distributed Ledger Technology Partnerships on Google Cloud” wherein the tech giant talked of its new partners in the blockchain space along with some tips on developing blockchain-based solutions.

In its announcement, Google said: “Customers can now explore ways they might use distributed ledger technology (DLT) frameworks on GCP with launch partners including Digital Asset and BlockApps, and try open-source integrations for Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum later this year in our GCP Marketplace.”

Digital Asset is a DLT Startup started by former JPMorgan executive Blythe Masters. Under its new partnership with Google, the startup will be providing software development kit to developers working on Google Cloud which will allow them to build and test the blockchain applications without the need to code the entire platform from scratch.

Head of Financial Services Platform at Google Cloud, Leonard Law praised the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) saying that it has “great potential” going further. He said: “DLT has great potential to benefit customers not just in the financial services industry, but across many industries, and we’re excited to bring these developer tools to Google Cloud.”

Digital Asset thinks that this partnership will help developers to shit to its Digital Asset Modeling Language (DAML) platform-as-a-service (PaaS) program which is now available on the Google Cloud’s Orbitera application marketplace. As a result, developers will get an “end-to-end toolkit to build and deploy sophisticated distributed applications.”

Blythe Masters, Digital Asset CEO said: “We’re partnering with Google Cloud to provide developers with a full stack solution so they can unleash the potential for web-paced innovation in blockchain. This will reduce the technical barriers to DLT application development by delivering our advanced distributed ledger platform and modelling language to Google Cloud.”

On the other hand, BlockApps made a standalone announcement of its partnership with Google Cloud Platform wherein BlockApp’s STRATO Blockchain-as-a-Service platform will provide the rapid deployment of Blockchain solutions on the Google Cloud.

BlockApps CEO, Kieren James-Lubin said: “BlockApps is delighted to integrate our platform with GCP and support GCP customers,  both existing and new, on their journey to build blockchain technology solutions.”

The official blog post from BlockApps reads: “Based on the Ethereum protocol, BlockApps STRATO provides enterprise-grade API integration capabilities, configurable consensus algorithms, and the capability to query and report on blockchain data using a traditional SQL database. Application developers will find STRATO familiar, easy to use, and easy to integrate with existing enterprise systems.”