# Google Cloud Just Became a Solana Validator

By [Hitl3rkill3r](https://paragraph.com/@hitl3rkill3r) · 2022-11-06

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Google's cloud computing division Google Cloud announced on Saturday that it’s now running a validator on the Solana blockchain, and will soon add features aimed at welcoming Solana developers and node runners.

Solana ( SOL) rose 12% on the news, changing hands at around $36.80 at time of publication.

In a [Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/googlecloud/status/1588927875314499590), Google Cloud revealed that as well as running a Solana validator “to participate in and validate the network,” it is planning to bring its Blockchain Node Engine to the Solana chain in 2023. The [Blockchain Node Engine](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/introducing-blockchain-node-engine?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=unpaidsoc&utm_campaign=fy22q4-googlecloud-blog-finserv-in_feed-no-brand-global&utm_content=blockchain-node-engine&utm_term=-) is a “fully-managed node hosting service” run by the provider, which already supports the Ethereum blockchain.

“We want to make it one-click to run a Solana node in a cost-effective way,” said Google Web3 product manager Nalin Mittal at Solana’s Breakpoint conference in Lisbon.

Source: Decrypt.co

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