Rich Widmann, the Web3 lead at Google Cloud, tells Decrypt's Dan Roberts and Kate Irwin in our Decrypting Mainnet series at Mainnet 2022 how Google Cloud is trying to "build a giant bridge" between Web2 and Web3, and the problem with crypto "purity tests."
Google has set its sights on becoming the backbone of Web3.
While it might come as a surprise to Web3 natives, Richard Widmann—Google’s head of strategy, Web3, and cloud—sees the Web2 giant as ideologically aligned with many of crypto’s core values, including open-source development and decentralization.
Prior to jumping headfirst into Google’s crypto initiatives, Widmann worked as legal counsel for the trillion-dollar tech company and also has a background in securities law.
At the Mainnet conference in New York City, he told Decrypt in an interview that he’s working to “build a giant bridge” between Web3 companies and blockchain by offering node services via Google Cloud. Nodes, which run code for crypto networks, can be...
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