Google Cloud to shut down blockchain services in December

Google Cloud will discontinue its Blockchain Node Engine and Blockchain RPC services in December, Digital Asset reported. After the shutdown, currently operating nodes and RPC endpoints, or blockchain node access addresses, will also be deleted. Blockchain Node Engine is a fully managed service Google Cloud has provided to help companies and developers run blockchain nodes without building and managing servers directly. It has supported JSON-RPC and WebSocket endpoints used to query blockchain data and send transactions.