The cloud divisions at Coinbase and Google, among several other firms, have joined EigenLayer as operators shortly after the mainnet went live.

"Coinbase Cloud is proud to be among the protocol’s first Operators, ready to serve as a trusted partner for your restaked ETH or LSTs," the firm noted.

Meanwhile, Sam Padilla, a product manager at Google Cloud, stated that his team had been involved in Eigen’s testnet since November and has now implemented an operator node on the mainnet.

This is not the first time Google Cloud has participated in running a node for a blockchain. It already provides web3 infrastructure services, such as node hosting and the management of validator operations, for various blockchains on its platform, notably Ethereum, Solana, and Aptos.

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