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We have been in contact with exchanges that are asking several BTC to get listed. Some other are asking just a small fee.

What are your experiences and advices about quality exchanges that would list you either for free or a small fee? What exchanges you would consider as far as listing a new coin at first?

Update: I have found that thread that precisely answer to all my questions
Check it out! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5079048.0

so your intention is to register a coin for free, a cheap fee but has a good volume? if that's what you mean then I can't give an answer because good exchange will definitely require expensive fees, and I have never found it ;D

If it is not shit exchange, it does not matter. More exchange is not considered negative by anyone, on the contrary with more choice it will be easy to find the appropriate one. On the other hand, listing in one of the top 10(except hitbit) keeps you alive.

"except hitbit" do you mean except HitBtc?

It is okay to get listed in an exchange with relatively low volume than nothing. But, just don't get listed into shitty exchanges like yobit or some kind they'd just bring bad image to your coin. Maybe you should try idex if your coin is ERC20. Otherwise, try to find a relatively new exchanges they tend to look for new coins to get listed.

I personally have no experience to register coins / tokens on the exchange. Because I never worked for a project. But what I do know is that there are usually those who ask for fees for listings and some are free, everything depends on the exchange. If your project is good and has a product, a strong community. I think you can do listings on large exchanges like binance for free.

Some exchanges like Gate.io (https://www.gate.io/listrequest) offers free listing but they will review it first if you are deserving. Often exchanges that list for free have low volume and not good, your coin/token will die there, You can also try to find an exchange with community voting for listing. Binance has that before but they stop it already.

This is not possible on binance now nothing is free even on their DEX you have to deposit 1,000 BNB first.


EDIT:
I take back what I said the 1000 BNB will be refunded so it's FREE.
check the blog here: https://community.binance.org/topic/18/guidelines-on-how-to-list-your-token-on-binance-dex

I would also suggest against listing a coin on extremely low-volume exchanges or potentially shady exchanges such as YoBit. In my experience, a lot of lower-volume exchanges have problems and those problems might not be fixed quickly for those trying to trade your coin, and same goes for potentially shady exchanges. If you have any questions about an exchange, try to look up if the exchange you want to list your coin on has a Bitcointalk thread and read a few pages of that if applicable. If you can't find that, look at reviews elsewhere.

There are 2 controversial exchanges here that I am interested in, but I do not understand why they have such a bad reputation in these forums...

- HitBTC: I am trading with them for +3 years. I have seen tokens getting to the moon, then dumping and dying being only listed there, they also have a good community in both Europe, US and Asia: check the busy chat. They have some technical glitches sometime, but see how many coins they are listing, they obviously have more technical issues than the exchanges that are listing 10 coins.

- Yobit: while a lot of people talking very badly about this exchange, the traffic on this exchange is huge, similar to HitBTC (Alexa) and they also have a lot of twitter followers. That means that there are investors there. So what is the problem with the shady side? 99% of Tokens are washing money shames, including tops 10 coins. Shady is all the crypto and the securities, and all the banking system... If they are stealing coins like some people say, then why so much traffic and followers? They got some issues with dumping in 2018, but we are in 2019 and they seems to have fixed the problem?

Even if there are chances that we could be listed on a big exchange, because they like the project for example, or because they want this kind of projet for policies reason, I would not go at this stage.
Everyone can make a mistake, and you don't want to f*ck up with Binance because you don't have the experience!

So I am more looking into some friendly exchange where you can settle with your investors and get some experiences doing try and tests... and if you do a mistake you will not be burned alive like Bytecoin did with Binance.

There are lot of exchanges for free listing but most of the listed assets became crap because of no volume therefore if you want your coins not to become perishable then choose the best and known exchanges with fees but if you will really insist for almost free then try Yobit and  FinanceX as these are known exchanges with cheaper fees.

Most likely you will not be able to find such an exchange, you will have neither volume nor real users on this exchange, because usually such exchanges are simply not worked out and have a lot of bugs. So I don’t think someone can advise you.

A big exchange means a lot for the token because it can provide big volumes, some exchange sites (major) asking million dollars because it can give million dollars pof volume as the return and popularity among the users. A free listing will always be result in the token becomes unpopular

there is no result from not large exchanges for them token dies
There are many who want to sell tokens
but there are no those who want to buy them
need exchanges with a large number of users

If you coin is a token (eg a ERC20), you can get it listed for free or on very cheap price on a decentralized exchange.
For popular DEX like Etherdelta, you can manually add the token and start trading without the involvement from the exchange site.
There are similar services for tokens from other platforms too.

We have blockchains, not tokens :(

I have found that thread that precisely answer to all my questions
Check it out! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5079048.0

As I think that exchange rates are low to list or don't need many conditions, it will lead to exchange where there are many altcoin without volume. Because exchange listed is often a small exchange with not many users, they can do more to attract more people

Most exchanges that will list tokens for free are usually new ones or very low volume exchanges and wish to use such to attract the community members to trade with them and gain through the fees. Some would list even without any formal application, Vindax does that for some projects

the safest is trading with a large volume exchange and recognized by many people. many new exchanges provide low fee rates, but there is no volume, and sometimes the service is not good. especially if security is not maintained, of course we will be harmed if it is like that

it is not a secret that the exchanges are asking money for a listing . this is normal and it is their salary. Of course, the best when the exchange adds coins not for money but for real value for a coin.

That list is quite old and there are many exchanges that has cropped up since then. One exchange I like is Bilaxy, they seem not to care about listing fees, all they care about is popularity and when your project has popularity and community, they tend to list it for free even without telling the project team.

Now that you got what you needed, maybe you can lock this thread now before it becomes one of the many mega-spam threads here.

But before you do that, can you answer if you have an ANN here? Best of luck with your listing.

If its going to be a centralized exchange then it's better to have one that charges a small fee for its service because they will be obliged to do some house keeping job on the exchange like taking down scam projects etc

While we expect decentralized exchanges not not require such upfront fees as they are run by smart contracts etc

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This is one awful s exchange, I doubt it that they will ever change for the better

Most investors and traders prefers to use already known exchanges and exchanges that would have very large volume, that is why exchanges like Huobi, bitfiniex, Binance and other top 10 exchange are trending till date, but the challenge with these exchanges is that they are quite very expensive to get listed on them.

The exchanges that you even seeing that would accept to list your project are very minimal fee are just doing so for promotional purpose, when they get the volume needed, they all end up becoming very expensive to make use of. Talking of free exchange, there are no way you can get that except you want to build your own exchange which will also still cost you so much to do so. The only place you can get listed at almost zero fees is on DEX exchange.