The upcoming privacy focused blockchain Midnight, which fundamentally works on and with Cardano, has announced that it is partnering with Google Cloud to advance privacy-first infrastructure and zero-knowledge technology as essential infrastructure for the next generation of digital systems.
According to Midnight, and under this partnership, Google will operate critical network infrastructure (including a validator), provide Confidential Computing from Google Cloud to strengthen data protection, extend Mandiant threat monitoring & incident response to developers and open doors for Midnight builders via the Google for Startups Web3 Program (with up to $200K in credits).
Richard Widman, the head of Web3 Strategy and Operations at Google, has been very clear about the partnership, stating that The future of enterprise applications requires both transparency and privacy. (...) By providing scalable infrastructure, we're enabling developers to experiment with innovative zero knowledge frameworks to verify transactions without exposing sensitive data.
