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I understand the real hard path behind an ICO getting listed their coins into exchanges. Kindly share how hard for an ICO get listed in an exchange. What are the steps taken to be listed? What really makes a coin easily be listed on an exchange? Share you experience here. Thank you

By paying them a hefty listing fee.

from the information I get that each exchange has different requirements, until the coins can be listed on the exchange. such as having a high trading volume, there is also a way to make a vote and pay a fee.

You can have your users vote to get added to an exchange, or you can pay some exchange a fee to get listed. It's very expensive though. Some exchanges charge upwards of $1,000+ to get listed. But, that's the fastest and easiest way. You'll still be waiting up to a month for them to add the coin even after you pay them that high fee though. So it's not really worth it.

I've read that big exchanges has big listing fee, some where you only need to vote ( you need to give a prize for voters for the effort they'll do ),

The easiest way to get to a good exchange is to pay enough money. If the project is really good and has a large community, there should be no problems.

some requirements may be required for new coins to be listed on the exchange. such as voting, trading volume and also costs that need to be issued and that could be a very high cost.

For a Token to be listed on exchange floors, I do not think it's that simple. In addition to having a lot of money, the Token needs to have a significant enough volume of trading to be indexed. And even if the Token has been indexed, but some time after the trading volume is down, it will deindex the exchange floors :))). So to be listed on exchange floors I think you need to learn from experienced managers on bitcointalk forum.

Look for Exchange with a vote voting system, and the coin must have a great community, and make a buounty vote.
so many will vote.

If you have a proper development and then you should be very easy to be listed on the exchange site. But the decision will depend on the exchange site itself whether the team interested with your coin or not. If the exchange site is using the voting method and you need a big community to be a winner. +

It depends on an exchange, some exchange can list most token for a fee, for some there are requirements. If project is well known it may be listed for free.

Each exchange has own requirements, some list only bitcoin based coins, other only ethereum, the rest list everything by accepting a high listing fee. The most difficult is to receive any reply from the exchange's support. Nowdays due to the numerous requests for listing it becomes harder and harder and at the same time more expensive to get listed at least somewhere.

The easiest way to have an ERC 20 based token and trade it on decentralized exchange, but trading volume won't be high.

Good luck!

Basically after the Bitconnect scam many exchanges are doing due diligence in what coin they will add. Even if the fee is paid to get it listed.

Many exchanges like Poloniex have months ago stopped even adding any new coins because they don't have time due to their huge impact of new users and requests.

Back in 2014 it was different. Back then you could get a coin launched on Monday and by Wednesday it would be listed on Poloniex.

Back then there wasn't as much traders as there is today.

I think there are 3 different important factors for coins to be added on exchanges:
1. Community support: Big is better.
2. Coin quality: All about market cap, dev&advisor quality and tech
3. Money: If you can spend good money you can be listed on many diff exchanges.

If you don't have the ability to pay the listing fee, then it is good to list them in the small exchange. Bigger exchanges will charge very high amount for listing their tokens, so it is good to add them to the voting list for listing your coin.

You have to pay them bigger fees, like few Bitcoins to list and for many ICOs this is impossible, becase it is a lot of money.

As posters above have said, the quickest and easiest way is actually to just pay a fee. This will get you listed almost guaranteed, provided your token of course works and everything can be transferred to the exchange with no problems.

The really hard way, but I am not sure it even works now, is to enter discussions with exchanges about your product and platform, and token. If it is really good and people use it and there is great demand, exchanges might consider listing it on their own (coding has to be superb).

Most of the posts here refer to how you need to pay a "hefty" listing fee or how you have to get the most votes on the exchange's polls. However, one should also consider that you need to have a good coin.

By good coin i mean you actually have something that is innovative and has a real world use. There are so many coins out there today but most of them are called shitcoin because they do nothing at all except fork code from existing blockchains. Until you have a good coin with a real purpose there isn't much legitimate sense to get listed on an exchange.

When you don't have the big $$$ to pay for listing at high volume exchanges, you better make sure you have a huge and active following that is willing to support every vote that is needed for proper listing. If your community only consists of airdrop participants, you may have a hard time winning a vote. Also, even with a vote you need to be able to pay for voting expenses. Even giving out free coins for the vote (most exchanges need you to pay with their exchange coin, like BNB or HT) does not always mean everyone will vote....for some it is just not worth the hassle (long term holders with small bags for example).

There are also projects that refuse to pay for listing on moral grounds. They feel they are not using the crowdfund in a proper way if a huge percentage of it is already spend on a listing, when the token/coin and its value doesn't necessarily represent the top priority of the project (getting an actual product off the ground is more important).

Even in small exchanges, it will be hard if the project doesn't really have that A factor, now exchanges been too strict in implementations to avoid scammy projects that will ruin their names.

Somebody is saying that teams give money and big exchanges list all tokens and coins but it is not like that, for example binance wants a lot of things and they are right about this, they mustn't list scam projects for not losing people's trust.

pretty much. I have seen a lot of them either choosing garbage exchange as an alternative or not listing their coins until later. I think exchanges are losing money but they can't list everything that's out there due to new procedure.

Every exchange platform had a different requirement a billion dollar exchange like binance required a legitimate and not scammy coins to avoid trust issues. Some will require a fee for exchange listing but it doesn't make a guarantee that the coin can gain enough recognition. Some will require large community support, a large group of supporters determines the popularity of the coins and mos of all large volume of coins.

the easy  way is to pay them, voting  and bribing people to vote is not a best way.

The easiest way to be listed on the crypto exchange is to pay a big amount of money, and your token will be listed immediately. But now the amounts are so large that not every project can pay that much. Large exchanges like Binance, Hyobi want more than 1,000,000 for the listing of new token ..!

Because of expensive listing fees of those high -volume trading platforms ($50k to $1M USD). This is now the best business in crypto currency and I seen a lot of new ICO's with a project about exchanges and trading sites. Imagine how Binance getting popularity after their launching.

I think the easiest way is to enter the stock market at a specific fee..Also, stock exchanges are occasionally conducting surveys..Projects with a lot of popularity are luckier in this regard.

Find a good partnership or recruit new advisor maybe a good choice. Adding a partnership will increase the trust of exchanger to listing the coin.
moreover if the new partnership alreadu have an experience on cryptocurrency


Voting system still have a weaknesses, i ever heard "You can make a multi-account and then vote again at the exchange"
this method is still ever used for in an exchange which they dont need to verify an account. just by register and vote. all done

this one of cheating method is really disadvantageous the investor and even the owner of coin itself.

The easiest way is to build a big community with airdrops and bounty campaigns and then you can get things like exchange votings easily done imho.

I don't think exchanges are really looking at ethical or moral metrics in making this decision, it's all about the money, make no mistake. Companies like Binance try to posture as ethical good guys out there, but the way they censor all criticism and surround themselves with sycophants and fanboys on social media suggest they are a purely profit driven business like any other...

It would vary on what exchange you would tend to list out your token since they do have different criteria either you would need to pay up some non justifiable fee or you would really be simply listed in term of votes or rather listed that would really needs complex research and investigation towards the project. Ex. Bittrex, this site wont easily list out coins specially the shit ones.

The fact is that scammers are always looking for any moves to achieve any results of their activities. I can give an example of such a project as Centra, who were swindlers and at the same time Successfully traded on the exchange with their coins.

Pay lots of money or have a ready product with demand & community.

Depends which exchange as well, some are expensive as hell. I know bittrex doesnt charge a dollar but they need to see a good product.

You just have to pay a certain amount to go public.

Simply invest in a very profitable cyberspace so that you always have a buyer. Such cyber-currencies as litecoins, altcoins, bitcoins. Here is if you invest them you will not burn out.

many exchange in cryptocurrencies world,when the altcoin want to be in top ten exchange,he must pay in the exchange and then he will be listed.

It should have huge money to be able to get listed a certain coin in a good exchange. Yes it has also a product that the project is worth to invest that can attract by an investors. Just follow the rule and procedures for it to be traded.

Nice set of factors but this is right,I totally support your answer because this is how the coin being accepted and added in exchanges,but the fastest way is to pay the exchange with huge amount so coin will be on their instantly.

Well thats the fastest way,but what have said above is the three basic way how a coin be listed in exchanges

Paid to listing can be applied for those exchange sites don't need the project to prove the community support behind it. But to be listed on the voting competition it looks so hard to do.
The project must build a proper business plan, good code, and MVP. around 99% if major coins are started from ico.

Pay them tons of money? That's what I have heard.
Or be one of the most popular ICO's of the last 2 3 months?
Or be a really solid project? Nope that's not enough...

I have not any experience in listing any coin but I am suggesting as a trader that those coins are listed faster which have a high trade volume. The developers need that they first apply for those exchange which are new and which need coins to come to them. When the coin will start trading on there after that they have to pay those exchanges which get paid for listing the coin in this way a dozen exchanges will have your coin. After that step try to increase mass adoption of your coin by developing your coin and project more. Advertise widely to increase the community that will be the next steps to list your coin to bigger exchanges.

For ICO to be listed on the exchange floors, there are some factors, such as the potential of the ICO project, the amount of money spent, and the number of tokens for the exchange floors management. Even large venues like Binance, to be listed on it, the volume trade of the Token must reach $ 1 million to be listed.

It is not easy being listed on an exchange this days because there are lot of new token that is being launched everyday. My understanding, you have to pay before being listed on an exchange and the price to pay differs from each exchange so if you want to be listed on that particular exchange then you have to pay their required listing pay.

To be listed at large exchanges, only for money, and very large amounts. Sometimes the project does not collect so many funds, to be able to pay a large exchange. There is an option to be listed at Binance or Kucoin, via voting, but in this case there should be a lot of interest from the community.

Pretty much all coins and tokens are compatible with BarterDEX, soon to be HyoerDEX.  No listing fees so far as I know, the coin does have to be compatible though.

You only have to pay the exchange to get your coin listed and start trading there.

I don't know if there's sort of requirements by having volumes or giving a portion of your token to them + fee(btc/eth).

It boils down to money, as is almost always the case with these things, which is understandable, but at the very least market leaders like Binance shouldn't try to create fake pr by acting like some ethical socially responsible douchebags,

when all you need is a payment of 100 BTC to be listed and promoted on the Binance exchange.

The bigger the exchange, the more money and tighter listing requirements there are. At least  for ERC-20 tokens, those can be traded on decentralized exchanges like forkdelta, IDEX and others without any listing issues.

According to the project team why it hards to listed on exchange because the fee is so high and they don't have money to pay that. Other reason is the exchange wants to the token / coin which listed on their exchange must have high volume before they listed on the exchange. Like binance, they will listed the token/coin which have high volume. It depends on the exchange I think.

For listing in the ICO, they need to qualify some credential of which exchange raise before listing them. Each exchange will follow different scenario and some exchanges will ask for money for listing in the exchanges.

We are not an ICO owners or ICO team members so i think no one will have the personal experience on how will a certain coin will be listed on an exchanges but base on reading in telegram chat that the ICO will consider some important things like the ICO is a success and has a big community, the ICO participants will vote for the best exchanges that ICO can cope with and finally the ICO will need have the money at least at minimum to be able to pay the exchanges fees of operation.

Depends on the size of the project and the trading volume

Bigger exchanges charge rather exorbitant fees and have strict rules for listing assets whereas smaller exchanges can be easier to get listed on with minimal to no fees

Some have a voting system which ensures only the most popular assets with the strongest community support get listed

Newly launched exchanges would be the easiest to get listed on and they generally have low or zero fees

Yes I agree with you, this happens to bitcoin tokens, deeponion and other coins. They use an airdrop system for voters against the coin. If a lot of voters then it can be ascertained the token or coin can be listed on the exchange. My advice, do not do to pay for the exchange it will be only, but it would be better if the token or coin you have distributed to users of cryptocurrency can be with airdrop system or the other, it will give volume to your market coin.

The largest exchanges do not take a weak ICO. I mean there must be big fees and capitalization of ICO, only this way you can go to a large exchanges, plus you'll have to pay a lot of bitcoins more  than 10 I guess.
If you have ERC-20 token, then on DEX exchanges you can listing your token for free there.

Work with decentralized exchanges. Supporting decentralized exchanges is the best thing that can we do.

It depends on what Exchange are you mean if DEX its instant while Centralized High Volume Exchange is Very Expensive to list at this time and it takes time to integrate the API and other Technical works on the Exchange Platform thats why many listing Application is delayed example like Binance,* its a  crowded one thats why months were counted before it was listed aside from hefty listing Fee. lots of application still pending I think its First Come First Serve Basis. I remember a Particular Token that listing announcement was made first. and it takes 4 months to go live trading due to that reason above.

I think the easiest way to get a coin listed on an exchange is to create an ERC20 token and ask Forkdelta for a listing. Forkdelta lists 90% of all ERC20 tokens and it is easy to get on that exchange. I thnk IDEX is also good exchange fo easy listing!

Trade in all forms of tokens! The most direct is to pay the listing fees, let the exchange list your COINS! The second is some medium-sized exchange will vote listed activities, you can organize your community supporters, to vote, if voting in the first place, can free COINS! Finally, create a trading site yourself!

In my experience, to get listed in a well known exchange, you have to pay an outrageous amount of money, that is the easiest way. But some projects that doesnt have enough funds, they are doing the voting system of some exchange like binance. Or some small projects are just using ERC20 tokens to get listed on ED or ForkDelta.

With or without the ERC20, bitcoin clone or own coin creation is easy to get listed on an exchanges and it will be good if the project already gain the community support. However, you can listed on exchange like Nexybit (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2104611), crex24 by contacting there people on this forum and with qtrade all you need to do is fill a document.

Paid to be listed and of course the majority of small - medium exchange sites are offering this method to the majority of icos to be listed their coin through paid some amounts to the team. But this is not a the best thing because it will bring the coin to the small exchange site. to get listed on ED or FD just need to tell the developer of Ed or Fd.

Almost of the coin that I have joined use a voting way to find the proper exchange for their project rewards. Well known exchanges is the fastest but have to be paid high fee and it is good for the successful project which have enough fund for it. Some used ERC20 which is usually used by small project because it is more cheap than other.

Different exchanges have different rules.
But most of them would require the same general rules like a website requirement, a working wallet, social media presence, etc.


Also, I noticed a natural law.
The number of exchanges a coin is listed in is inversely proportional to its difficulty to get listed in an exchange.

Fee is not the only one reason why is difficult to get listed in any exchange specilly for good exchange.
The developer of the team is the one who knows how difficult it is. And i know a little information, if want to get list the project must have huge money to pay the fee and have good supporter (popularity) and high marketcap.

I also experienced the same thing, until I found an application called BitUniverse. The application can be used on Android, so it can be easier to check the price of coins, a list of coins in each exchanger, can even be connected with our wallets through the API, so we can monitor the development of coins in our wallets.

As far as I heard from couple of different coin Telegrams, medium size exchanges always seek payments over anything. They generally demand some ethereum and if developers pay that money coin gets listed.

some exchange sites are even charging the new coin more than 5 million dollars. I can give you an example about which is the project that has paid more than 5 million dollars to be listed on binance and it's called quarkchain. But this has become a problem because they are all wasting a lot of money for listing on binance.
You don't need to win the vote if you wanna paid a lot of money for them, but you need to win the vote if you are don't wanna pay them with your money.

I think exchanges is reviewing first about the token want to be list to their platform because some exchanges not only basing by paying a fee to be listed but they review the token if it's good and if they provide all requirements.

I hear that an MVP helps ICOs to get listed. Besides it is popular nowadays to create vote for people to list their favourite coins

from the information I get that each exchange has different requirements, until the coins can be listed on the exchange. as
* it has a high trading volume,
* got the high vote
* pay the fee

If you have the right development and then you should be very easy to register on the exchange site. But the decision will depend on the exchange site itself whether the team is interested in your coin or not. If the exchange site uses the voting method then you need a large community to be a winner.

You can ask your users to choose to be added to an exchange, or you can pay a large fee to sign up. You may still be waiting for a few weeks for them to add coins even after you pay them for a high cost

Building a great community base and winning their "Community Coin per Month” Program. It will also help to promote their brand easily.

It's really wrong in my opinion, binance gives an obligation for every ico that interested to participate in the binance vote to develop beta or at least they must release their platform. There was a lot of requirements to be listed on exchange sites especially for the major exchange site just like binance and any other exchange.

Guys, could you please suggest some decent exchanges with affordable prices on listing (approximately tens of thousands of dollars, neither hundreds or millions please)?

actually for the existing ico can make its coin registered at the exchange place it's very easy you just need the capital just to pay the owner of the exchange place, for example where the exchange in binance has a very high trading volume there I heard require 50 BTC to be able listed there.

The best way is to get listed on cheap low volume exchanges and then generate some trade on those. It is impossible to get listed on high volume exchanges without getting any trades elsewhere beforehand.

1 coin wanted to be listed on an exchange.  The most common way is now.  have a large community, high transaction volume and have the highest votes.  Also there is a shortcut to the list on the big exchange that is paying them a huge fee.

some technical adjustments are required. but these are easy. it is enough to give $ 10m to enter the stock market. Unfortunately this is not ethical.

Any token can be listed on any exchange as long as project behind them pay enough amount of BTC required :)). No matter if it's the best cryptocurrency or the worst, project behind each token/coin just need to pay enough amount of BTC then everything will be fine. For example, Binance exchange requires 50 BTC for listing on their exchange.

Easiest way is to have a big community and then try to win an exchange voting like the one KuCoin conducted some days ago.

The easiest way to get listed in an exchange by paying them with the total amount required by the exchange.

It is easy, you need many Bitcoins for it. But many projects rather use their funds for development, marketing than speding so much money on token lisitng...
Fees are about 10-50BTC!

this not difficult if you have a lot of BTC/ money, big centralized exchange with big fees or decentralized exchange if you dont have enough money, thats why vitalik butterin says" all centralized exchange will burn in hell" ;D

Everything is about money, when you pay the exchange big amount of money, they will list you there. It's the easiest way to get there.

I feel the pain why some developers don't want to get listed on binance as they will asking a 50BTC that's a huge amount considering those projects had only collected enough to hit the softcap. I understand now why they will just settle on newer exchanges with low volume rather than listing on the top exchanges.

There is no shortcut for the ICO token to be listed on a certain exchange unless the exchange offer their service voluntarily to the project then you will be enlisted, but for bigger exchange, they need to undergo process and approval.

the easiest way for a market entry token is if the developer of a project is friends with the founder of the exchanger ;D. or it could be if a project has a large and solid community member they can surely enter an exchanger by winning the commununity voting each month in the exchanger

The way of adding coins is like everywhere, the main possibility is to pay because everything is around the money. If you pay the appropriate amount of money, your coin becomes visible, another option is long and monotonous way is to collect the votes which let you add your coin to exchange

easiest way ....  ;D ;D ;D

get a coin with an finished product or good project
lot of member in telegram
 lots of fans and big community .. so it isnt easy

Too many post about listing coins into exchanges, are you the ones that will list it? just follow the instructions of those exchanges on how to do it.

Which exchanger ? If you want to get listed on big exchanger..especially top 5 exchanger then you need to have good MVP and pay some ammount of money. If you want to get listed on shit exchange you only need money to pay. The question is not how to get list but how o make people want to buy your coin / token.

I know that a token can enter kesebuah exchange is a company willing to pay the funds in accordance with the wishes of the exchanger, is not difficult, but it would be a bit detrimental to the company's listing on the exchanger which is great if they are limited to small capital

Paying the fees, I hear binance fee is near 5 million, Now as with all projects ensure they have allocated a portion of ICO funds for listing as it really does make a difference which exchange they end up on. Just look at quarkchain

I hope you know that "easy come, easy go". Don’t look for exchange with simple rules to be enlisted. The best exchange is the safest and most reliable exchange. Look for it.

Indeed, some exchanges decides on what coin to be listed on their exchange through voting online but of course you have provide all the requirements of every exchange. This is the main concern of every bounty hunter, and I think there’s more easy way better than this one.

this is very unpredictable answer,, just become a friend from the exchange founder you will eaily to add your crypto to get listed there .. LOL
winning the voting is the right choice for a crypto with huge, solidd and strong community
but, i think the last options is by paid the listing fee from the exchange my friend  ;)

The fastest. then you have to pay for the exchange of a huge listing fee. the average of at least 1btc. more then 100btc. Depending on the exchange, the other is the vote. If you have a strong community at ICO. But ICO, I think there will be no big community

I see price-list for listing in the deep of internet. I don't see 100 BTC, but yes, some exchanges want very big sum as fee. But for example Bittrex as I heard don't get fee because they list project after full code audit. And this is right way imho. Not fee but good coin

The fact is that today each trading platform has its own conditions for accepting a coin for trading. As I have repeatedly heard, in bittrex they are not as tough as others.

Listing on the stock exchange is a very expensive process. Usually, if the project has certain problems with ICO fees, then postponing the listing is a common phenomenon.

Usually, an ICO project wants to list their crypto on exchange floors. In addition to the potential crypto, the project needs to spend a small amount of money to put the crypto on the exchange floor so it can be traded by investors. And after the volume reaches a specific number the crypto will be listed on CMC and the remaining exchange floors.

It will be better to enlist while the ICO is running, there are tons of exchanges now, after their ICO they can hit top exchanges when they succeeded in their ICO.

Actually hard to determine why some icos coin long time to wait before listed in the exchange only the owners of the exchange and the devs of the project can answer of this, i think both parties have an bargaining negotiations and agreement.

The easy way to get listed in an exchange is to pay a high fee. Besides that trading exchanges will require additional issues to ensure the safety of investors.

High costs will certainly be listed on major exchanges and if that project really grows they will seek to list all top exchanges to ensure that all investors are liquidity good. I believe we are in a new phase of this market and if there is a foresight, listing on exchanges is always a top priority for developers.

usually depending on the exchange that is being entered into, the greater the exchange of volume, the harder it will be for our coins to be listed there, that's my general knowledge

Paying the listing fee. It could be huge but that's the easiest way to get listed. Anyways, I think all of the exchanges are wanting listing fees but varies with some requirements like MVP, KYC of the team etc,. Maybe get listed on DEX first, they require lesser requirements for listing.

the best way for a token to be included in an exchanger is to pay the exchanger some money to be able to include the altcoin

Money is not the concern if the project looking for exchange listing they should have some merits, MVP, community supports and real working product & this has been proven by listing of ravencoin on binance. Also about money Binance CEO CZ clarified with his tweets "We don't list shitcoins even if they pay 400 or 4,000 BTC. ETH/NEO/XRP/EOS/XMR/LTC/more listed with no fee. Question is not “how much does Binance charge to list?” but “is my coin good enough?” It’s not the fee, it's your project! Focus on your own project!"
https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1028190371719786496
Yes there are still exchanges which takes huge amount of money for listing on their exchanges but still they require paper works which include brief information about the projects, project teams detail verification & token sale details.

for further more information in depth you can read this excellent article https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/ico-insights-how-to-list-your-token-on-an-exchange

There are several options.Each exchange requires a variety of requirements as long as coins are placed on the stock market. such as high trading volume, there is a way to vote and pay a fee.

Fee is not mandatory for all exchanges. Main things are they want project durability and how much strong project that is. If project Shaky then most of the exchange do not accept them to list in their exchange. Best solution you can read the exchange terms and conditions for listing a coin.

yeah right what you say, now every market exchanges have different regulations, some can be entered by paying the established fees and some are prioritizing the development of the project whether it is able to survive in the market.