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I'm a little curious, why does it take so long to list a coin on an exchange.

Do exchanges charge money from the developers or just a trading fee from the traders?

If a coin doesn't get listed in a very long time, will the project fail?

The more interesting a project will be the faster it can get into the list of an exchange. It also depends on the cooperation undertaken by the project developers and how the development prospects of the project in the market. Even to enter a classy exchange that requires a lot of supporting factors. Yes can be said at this time is not easy to enter an exchange.

But does it require them to pay a certain amount before they join?

It is based on the crowd sale because every project is start a Airdrop then they will post in bounty campaign. so they need promotion then only all the investors are read the project note so it is suit for the career they will buy it soon. but Current situation every project have run the phase 1 and phase 2 bounty campaign. so it take more than four to five months in all the projects.

I guess there is a required payment to get your coin listed to some exchanges.

These articles can be helpful.

How to get your coin listed on COBINHOOD Exchange (https://medium.com/cobinhood/how-to-get-your-coin-listed-on-cobinhood-exchange-c8a77cfb2c69)

How do I submit a token to Bittrex for listing? (https://support.bittrex.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000475411-How-do-I-submit-a-token-to-Bittrex-for-listing-)

GETTING YOUR TOKEN / COIN LISTED ON AN EXCHANGE (https://www.coinist.io/how-to-get-your-digital-token-listed-on-an-exchange/)

On the last article, it says that there's no payment on poloniex.

The process are vary per exchanges. If a certain project shows strong and significant impact to the investors to the point that it causes hype within a not so long period of time, chances that it will land to exchange without any hassle requirements may be granted in no time.

Listing fees yes it has but even a project does have enough budget to fulfill the fees, it doesn't mean they will be listed right away at some of the popular and big exchange.

That's why for a start you can see tokens only landed on mid exchanges and sometimes not so popular while they are waiting for big exchanges to process their respective applications.

If the project will be failed if no listing happened? It depends if the development is continous and active.

In other words, what exchanges are looking for is hype first then budget (raised Capital of the project)? That's absurd. These exchanges are making it difficult for projects by introducing a bureaucratic like system. It's centralisation all over again.

Yes some exchange can be accept payment to list their coin but regarding with its volume. Token or coin with have a great history of trades. A lot of trader has interest to list that token. Other is voting system the stronger the community will win and have free listing in the exchnage. The coin need to get high vote and be the top 1 till the end of the voting system

As far as I understand, the cost of each exchange is different, and you need a lot of money to be able to list an exchange. No listing exchange is equivalent to death.

It will because the demand will decrease and then it will be moving toward a new platform. The listing on the major exchange site can be considered as a big short term achievement because it will increase the volume trade of token itself.
The exchange sites are charging from the developers to be listed on its own exchange site. It's just taking from the fees too.