Following the announcement of Zilliqa and BOID, who have joined the Ankr cloud, we proudly announce Bluzelle, a leading blockchain database for the web 3.0, as the next high-profile blockchain project to utilize the Ankr cloud infrastructure. We are very excited to host Bluzelle nodes on our distributed cloud, and looking forward to collaborating with the Bluzelle team for deeper integration with the Ankr platform.

More importantly, Bluzelle is more than just a customer of Ankr. Bluzelle and Ankr are working together to provide space for storing data. Bluzelle’s database and caching solutions are perfectly complementary to Ankr’s compute, storage and container orchestration services. In the future, Ankr and Bluzelle plan to package the tech stacks together to provide enterprises with the all-in-one solution.

In this article we will elaborate on why blockchain projects as Ziliqa, Bluzelle and BOID have decided to look at alternatives to AWS, resulting in utilizing the Ankr cloud, and why your project should also consider using our distributed cloud platform.

What services does Ankr provide to Bluzelle?

Blockchain nodes form a vital part of public blockchains. A node is a device on a blockchain network, that is in essence the foundation of the technology, allowing it to function and survive. Nodes are distributed across a widespread network and carry out a variety of tasks. The most typical being to maintain a consistent copy of the ledger and help confirm transactions.

More esoteric uses might be to provide resources or execute bespoke calculations. Without nodes, there is no blockchain; they are an absolute critical element of the technology.

Nodes can take a physical form (a server in a datacenter, a spare PC or a Raspberry Pi), they can also exist in the cloud as Virtual Machines.

A virtual machine is a software computer that, like a physical computer, runs an operating system and applications. The virtual machine is comprised of a set of specifications and configuration files and is backed by the physical resources of a host.

The nodes in the Ankr blockchain facilitate the hosting of VM’s by providing their spare storage and compute capacity. There are many cloud-hosting services, however Ankr offers some clear advantages to other blockchain companies who decide to host their nodes on the Ankr cloud.

Why host your blockchain nodes on the Ankr cloud?

The Ankr platform is connected to top-end specification servers, hosted globally from the data centers owned by some of the largest companies on the planet, to provide the highest quality to the Ankr nodes. At the moment, our data providers include Digital Ocean, telecom giant Telefonica, and more which are spread out over 5 continents, and we have many more world-class providers to come.

These data centers guarantee a tremendous global scope to our platform. While services such as Amazon’s AWS offer only 20 global locations, Ankr can offer many times more, by virtue of each data center provider being a location in their own right, each with different global configurations. This results in the latency of your Ankr-hosted blockchain being minimized and the compute power maximized, meaning transactions will be smooth, efficient and lightning-fast.

Finally, the ecological benefits of using Ankr, as our platform utilizes idle compute power, these servers will be switched on and available whether used or not. The model of utilizing this idle time, minimizing the ecological impact of providing this service and also allowing organizations to monetize their idle (and therefore costly if not utilized) compute time is a great benefit, for us, you and the planet!

About Bluzelle

Bluzelle is a global decentralized database for web 3.0. Bluzelle combines blockchain and edge computing to deliver an instantly scalable, auto-managed, and cryptographically secure database service. Bluzelle is a layer two solution for the data needs of blockchains and is suited for serverless applications, Dapps, gaming and IoT.

The Bluzelle team is building a Data Delivery Network to ensure businesses never suffer from data breaches, network failures and performance issues. Bluzelle redundantly stores tiny pieces of data on nodes across the globe, eliminating any single point of failure.

Bluzelle has implemented swarming technologies. A swarm is a large group of nodes that work together to store and manage data. Nodes in these swarms can go down and new nodes can come up with minimal impact on the network. Overall Bluzelle is a meta-swarm comprised of multiple swarms. Bluzelle’s unique swarming technique is designed for the highest performance and lowest latency by retrieving data from the nearest nodes.

Ankr’s distributed network of geographically dispersed data centers, immune to localized outages, is the perfect fit for hosting the Bluzelle nodes and provide them with the necessary performance.

What is next?

The onboarding of Zilliqa, Bluzelle and BOID onto the Ankr platform is a huge step forward for Ankr as a revenue generating company. It also serves to obtain the necessary exposure to providers who want to monetize their idle compute resources ,and other blockchain projects who want to tap into the benefits of hosting their node on the Ankr distributed cloud.

If you, or your company also wants to benefit of the advantages of the Ankr cloud, please get in touch with us by filling in this questionnaire.

To support the onboarding of even more providers and new customers, we will launch a community referral program, of which we will release the details in the days to come. As we have always appreciated the great added value from our community, we are convinced that they will help us grow our platform, which will automatically add value to the Ankr token.

If you are curious how all of this incoming revenue will be used to further enrich the Ankr ecosystem and help drive key initiatives such as staking ROI, which in turn will help create a more valuable project and token, stay tuned for more insights on this topic.

We hope you will continue to travel with us along this exciting path and on to the next chapter in Ankr’s evolution!

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