2023年4月5日

通常是第三世界国家经常说他们正在经历“人才流失”——人才流失到其他国家或世界其他地区。但现在看来，美国才是人才逃往世界其他地方的地方，至少对区块链开发者来说是这样。根据Electric Capital最近的一份报告，自2017年以来，美国区块链开发商的数量每年都在下降。虽然这可以说是美国创新的一个坏信号，但它也表明，在新冠疫情后的世界，远程加密生态系统和劳动力在全球范围内不断增长。根据该报告，在过去五年中，美国区块链开发商的份额每年下降2%，从2017年的40%降至去年的29%。连接web2.0和web3世界的信用平台Archie Finance的首席执行官保罗·斯塔夫罗普洛斯告诉TechCrunch+:“问题是，这重要吗?为什么重要?”“首先也是最重要的是生态系统的全面发展。这种情况一直在持续，这很好，但美国正在失去市场份额，这并不好。”与世界其他地区相比，美国的下降是“微小的差异”，电力资本合伙人玛丽亚·沈(Maria Shen)说。在2017年至2022年的五年间，欧洲(不包括英国)的份额一直保持在29%左右。 Right now, a lot of information being communicated to the crypto industry is through enforcement action. That scares away innovation. Austin King, CEO and co-founder, Recursive “There’s a counterpoint where it’s not a bad thing that the U.S. is losing market share of developers, but maybe what’s important is the overall number of developers,” Stavropoulos said. “COVID has been a huge help in building remote teams; it’s no longer taboo to build a team with folks all around the world.” Archie Finance’s engineering team is Slovenian, but it’s still a U.S.-based team, Stavropoulos noted. “It perhaps is not as important that the engineering talent stays in the U.S. as it is that the actual company’s innovation starts in the U.S. I think the scary thing is when innovation doesn’t touch the U.S. at all because of accredited investor rules or people don’t want to be jailed.” Overall, a significant increase in the number of developers is the most important thing, Stavropoulos said. The pie is growing In the last seven years, the crypto industry gained over 22,000 monthly active developers, bringing the total number to 23,343 as of December, up 5% from a year earlier, the report said. About 52% of all monthly active developers began contributing in 2022, marking a big chunk of the people building today. While the U.S. and Europe are each home to 29% of all crypto developers, regions like Asia, India, Latin America and Africa saw more crypto devs taking up the torch in 2022. “There’s amazing untapped potential around the globe,” Stavropoulos said. “It’s also cheaper to hire extremely qualified engineers abroad.”