Google Cloud to shut down Blockchain Node Engine and hand customers to Quicknode

Google Cloud is getting out of the blockchain node business. The company will fully shut down its Blockchain Node Engine and Blockchain RPC services on December 15, 2026. Customers are being pointed to Quicknode, which Google has named its officially recommended RPC infrastructure provider. Teams that miss the date will find their infrastructure deleted. What’s changing and when The wind-down is happening in two stages. The first is already in effect: since June 15, 2026, Google Cloud has disabled new node creation and stopped provisioning new Blockchain RPC endpoints. Between that date and the final cutoff, current nodes and endpoints stay online with limited support. Google says it will keep shipping critical updates, but customers should expect the product to stay where it is rather than gain new features. The second stage is the shutdown itself. On December 15, 2026, every remaining node and endpoint will be deleted. Google’s migration documentation lays out a fairly standard checklist: Provision replacement infrastructure Update RPC URLs and application configurations Validate workloads on the new setup Delete legacy Blockchain Node Engine nodes There is one asymmetry worth no...