Is Silicon Valley, the Hub of Venture Capital, Becoming Less Enthusiastic about Crypto?

**Title: Silicon Valley Losing Ground in the Crypto Race to AI, According to CoinDesk’s Crypto Hubs 2023**

**Description:**
In CoinDesk’s Crypto Hubs 2023 rankings, Silicon Valley, the birthplace of the U.S. tech industry, falls to the No. 8 spot. Crypto founders in the Valley state that artificial intelligence is surpassing Web3 in the race to capture wallets and minds. Despite its historical reputation for talent and resources, Silicon Valley is struggling to compete due to its middling crypto regulatory score and the rise of AI startups. However, it remains a center for venture capital, with well-known firms like Andreesen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital supporting crypto projects.

While Silicon Valley offers a concentration of top tech talent and is home to successful companies such as Google, Apple, and Facebook, the region is facing challenges from emerging tech sectors. The high cost of living and lower quality of life score hinder the Valley’s crypto ecosystem. On the other hand, its digital infrastructure and ease of doing business give it an advantage.

Experts point out that the recent SEC offensive against crypto, including investigations of major exchanges like Binance and Coinbase, has further impacted the industry’s growth in the Valley. Some crypto startups are considering moving to other U.S. tech hubs like Seattle, Austin, or Miami, while others are exploring options abroad with more favorable regulatory regimes.

While funding for new crypto projects is still available, the number of VC funds willing to invest has decreased. Early stage funding remains the focus for many VCs. Despite these challenges, crypto hubs like Wyoming are showing potential in opportunities, particularly in the per-capita rate of crypto jobs, companies, and events.

For more information on CoinDesk’s Crypto Hubs 2023 rankings and the methodology used, please refer to the [source](https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/06/27/silicon-valley-the-mecca-for-venture-capital-may-be-cooling-on-crypto/).

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The storied birthplace of the U.S. tech industry is dripping with talent and money. But crypto founders who live in the No. 8 spot on CoinDesk’s Crypto Hubs 2023 list say that Web3 is losing ground to artificial intelligence in the race to capture the Valley’s wallets and minds.

Silicon Valley was the second-highest ranked U.S. hub in CoinDesk’s Crypto Hubs 2023. Several of the eight criteria were measured on a national basis, so all the U.S. hubs were hampered by a middling crypto regulatory score, a drivers criteria, which at 35% was the most heavily weighted overall. This poor performance was partially offset by the U.S.’s high crypto adoption score, another drivers criterion, represented 10% of the overall score. Among the U.S. hubs, Silicon Valley generally trailed Wyoming just a hair in opportunities, which is based on per-capita rate of crypto jobs, companies and events. Due to its high cost of living, Silicon Valley suffered from a lower quality of life score, weighted 15% and a measure within the enabler category. But the coastal Silicon Valley area had the upper hand in other enabler measures including digital infrastructure and ease of doing business.

For more on the criteria and how we weighted them, see: How We Ranked CoinDesk’s Crypto Hubs 2023: Our Methodology.

Silicon Valley does not need advertising as a launchpad for the world’s most successful tech companies, like Google, Apple, Facebook – you name it. And it’s been home for some crypto startups, too, including blockchain analytics company CipherTrace and stablecoin issuer MakerDAO.

The Valley, centered on the city of San Jose about 55 miles southeast of San Francisco, offers an unprecedented concentration of top tech talent, historically supplied by local world-class universities including Stanford. It is also a center of venture capital, with giants like Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners that have been systematically supporting crypto startups.

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This combination presents a promising environment for any young tech ecosystem, including crypto. However, the still-young blockchain community is facing competition from other emergent tech sectors.

“For those looking for VC funding for crypto, the Valley is almost closed,” says Gene Hoffman, CEO and president of Chia, the company behind the namesake blockchain.

Two years ago, the crypto industry was sucking talent out of the more established, “traditional” tech firms like Google, Amazon or Apple, but now, the industry doesn’t look as hot for the VCs and entrepreneurs here.

The reason? Artificial-intelligence startups are stealing thunder. And the recent SEC offensive against crypto, including investigations of the major global exchanges Binance and Coinbase, doesn’t help. “All but the diehards are now worried about buying coins,” Hoffman said. “We are going nowhere because the SEC is a blocker for us.”

Finding money for a new crypto project is still possible, of course. But the roster of VC funds willing to invest is much smaller these days, and those that do have “definitely retrenched to early stage [funding] mostly,” he said, adding that funds like a16z, Paradigm Capital, Haun ventures and Electric Capital remain active in the space.

Competition from other U.S. tech hubs.

And while there is no exodus of crypto companies out of the…

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