FAQ
Questions, answered.
The short version: it's a city, and its buildings and streets can be yours.
What is Silon Valley?
Silon Valley is an explorable 3D city made of virtual buildings and streets. Every building has a number, a district and an owner, or is waiting for one.
Everything starts at $1. Pay a dollar more than the current owner and it becomes yours, until somebody does the same to you.
What is a building?
A building is a permanent address inside Silon Valley: a position, a shape, a number and a name.
Acquired buildings display their owner's logo on the facade or rooftop and get their own public page.
What happens when I buy one?
Your building shows your name and logo in the 3D city for everyone to see, appears in the city's timeline, and gets a public page linking to your website.
You add your name, logo and website when you claim it, so they go live the moment the payment is confirmed. You also receive a private management link by email to edit them anytime.
No account. No password.
Can I buy a street?
Yes. Streets, avenues and the ring road can be acquired.
When you own a street, your logo is displayed on the road every few metres along the whole segment.
Avenues are the city's most visible addresses.
How do I pay?
Checkout is handled by Stripe through Stripe Managed Payments, acting as Merchant of Record. Stripe processes the payment, calculates and collects applicable taxes, and sends you the receipt or invoice.
Available payment methods depend on the customer's country, currency and device, and may include cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay and local payment methods.
Prices are shown in US dollars, and you always pay the amount you chose to bid.
What is your refund policy?
All sales are final. Your building or street goes live the moment the payment completes, so the service is delivered in full immediately. Before checkout you explicitly agree to immediate delivery and waive any right of withdrawal or refund. The only exceptions are on our side: if we cannot deliver what you paid for (for example the asset was sold to someone else in the meantime, or you were charged twice) the payment is refunded in full through Stripe.
Can I put my logo on it?
Yes. That's the point.
Owners can provide a logo, which is displayed on the facade or rooftop depending on the building. Logos must be yours to use and may be moderated if they violate our terms.
What happens if someone outbids me?
You lose the building and the money: bids are payments, not deposits, and there is no refund. That is the rule everybody accepts at checkout, and it is what lets anyone take anything.
You keep something, though: your name, logo and link stay on that building's page and on the owners page permanently, as one of its past owners. If you would rather not appear there, ask us and we will remove or anonymise your entry.
We email you the moment it happens, telling you what the new owner paid and the exact price to take it back.
How much do I have to bid?
At least a dollar more than the current owner paid. The exact minimum is shown on every building and street.
You can bid more than the minimum, and it is usually worth it: the next person has to beat what you actually paid, so a bigger bid buys you a longer, quieter stay.
Can I bid on my own building to protect it?
Yes, nothing stops you, and it does raise the price anyone else has to beat.
But you pay that bid like any other, and it never makes the building un-takeable. There is no way to buy permanent safety here.
Can I resell a building?
There is no marketplace, but everything is permanently for sale by design: anyone can take your building at any moment by paying more, and you can do the same to anyone else.
Money always goes to Silon Valley, never between owners, so this is not a resale or an investment.
Is this real estate?
No.
Buildings and streets are digital features inside Silon Valley. They are not land, real estate, securities, tokens or any form of real-world asset.
What if two people bid on the same building at the same time?
A building is held for you while your checkout is in progress, so two checkouts never run against it at once.
If two payments for the same building still land together, the building goes to the higher amount paid, not to whoever paid first. The other payment is refunded in full and we let that person know.
Is this blockchain or NFTs?
No.
Silon Valley uses ordinary web infrastructure. There are no tokens, wallets or smart contracts.
Something else? Contact us.