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How does it work when you get your token listed on an exchange. Does the exchange require you give them a large amount of your tokens so they have liquidity? Who gets the money when they're selling them?

that depends on the agreement between the token creator and the exchange site. Sometimes, the exchange site try to take a small allocation as a listing fees but in another case the exchange site needs to be paid with the native coin.
The exchange site with get the coin.

Yep, that's its, depends on your agreement with the exchanges.

But I'm under the impressions that top tier sites requires to be paid upfront in BTC, but there could be mid-tier exchanges that are willing to accept your tokens. That's why majority of the projects chooses not known exchanges to get their coins listed specially if they haven't reach their hard cap.

If you have a budget then I would say go for top exchanges so that your coins/token will get maximum exposure.

If your token get listed on the exchange site platform it means you have a privilege to sell your coin anytime you want. Now about the qery you wanna about it, perhaps this is between the owner or the creator of the token and exchange to discuss it. Just all I know as an individual trader we are free to do anything in the platform whether you have the coins or you want to buy coins in the platform. 

Depends on which exchange and which kind pf agreement you did, some exchanges charge a few BTC/USD to list a coin/token and some exchanges just make an agreement for tokens and volume in order to list your coin on there, some exchanges don't ask anything, for tokens, there are a few DEX exchanges where you can list without doing anything.
If you need to provide liquidity maybe earlier investors can sell, if no one has tokens so you won't need to worry about that.

Im quite confuse with the question. Requiring you to send relative amount of tokens is not necessary except with the minimum required for you to be able to send tokens. The money will goes to the one execute an order of your sell. Thats how trading works. I assume you are newbie that dont have experince yet on trading? But dont let it confuse you. There are plenty of guides about trading online be sure to use Google search engine to find out any hint for this.

Its up to the exchange on what are the terms they are going to offer to the said coin,
most top exchange requires an amount of the said coin
and a payment of major crypto upfront before getting listed.

There are different policy for different exchanges. The liquidity is brought by buyers and sellers. Even if your coins get listed (paid listing), they don't guarantee you an open buy and sell order and you can have one or both of them empty if not enough users are trading.

I think your answers have been answered by friends from the post before me, so it all depends on the outcome of the agreement between the token creator and the exchange site, because if there is no profit then the exchange site also does not want to work with the token creator

If it's a token you created you need to pay for a listing fee, every exchange has a different rules, some of them ask for your token to be deposited in their exchange they get a profit from those token once traded of course as the owner of the token you are allowed to dump your token here, which the developers are abusing.

AFAIK, the fee will be on bitcoin not on their own tokens and also exchanges have some criteria to list a token into their exchange.I don't think any token will be given to exchanges directly, maybe like a refundable deposit until it gets enough trading volume.

It's all about the agreement between the project team and the exchange, for example binance exchange requires that the team buy some amount of BNB tokens, their job is to make volume available, with top exchanges their will always be buyers available, that's why top exchanges are the best choice

there will not be any exchange requires you to send a large number of your tokens for them both, if it is a scam and stay away from that person out. Most exchanges will limit the lowest to about $ 1. This means that the value of the total token you want to deposit must be over $ 1 to make a deposit.

It is mentioned, that Binance DEX charges a standard flat listing fee of 1,000 BNB (https://cointelegraph.com/news/not-a-fee-but-long-term-payment-how-crypto-exchanges-list-tokens), but listing price on Binance exchange is individual. In the same article it is mentioned that Binance charges $250,000 for an alt to be listed for 1 year, as well as charged $2,600,000 other altcoin for being listed. Also you can won voting and get listed for free. So there is no fix price for listing on Binance, everything depends on the projects.

That's between the exchange and the projects team, this question should be asked from exchanges if you are looking to get your token or coin listed. You won't get the right answer from members on here, though the requirements of exchanges are different from one to another

I thought they need to pay for the listing more than just the tokens for liquidity. Some team reason out they are not up to spend thousands for the listing  to an exchange because the exchange require them to pay up to 3BTC and tokens for liquidity.


Any team can list their token in ViteX DEX by themselves since it has an opensource protocol. The only that it needs is the coin/token to have a gateway. That's what I learned in a discussion in their telegram.

Of course, this is related to your plan about the agreements and commitments you make with these parties. there may be certain restrictions that they provide so that you can only enter the top, middle or bottom level.

In my opinion, the better you place it, the faster your plan will be realized. we need a place to introduce your material coins / tokens to people who need them.

According to the most thread that i come across in this forum,Big and trusted exchange like binance and okex usually accept payments in Bitcoin (but of course there might be agreement outside the policy since this is not public data0 but mostly Bitcoin transaction is what used.
Even how big exchange you got to put your token/coins but if the team is not that eager and aggressive in
 progressing their project then nothing will come good instead it will only become failure.

So the best way is to use all the platform who can give advertising and popularization about the project and
 also must have product to make sure the legitimacy of the team and project.

It varies depending on exchange but for most of the time they demands fee either in form of money or if they see potential in your project they will demand tokens instead. there are also some requirement if you want to get listed into most reputable exchange. After getting listed though you will need to maintain the trading volume of your coin by keeping the project alive otherwise it'll get delisted .

The exchange site will never try to reveal the agreement between its party and the token developer. We know that from some people from the ico team who have spread the clue about that but if you are asking the exchange site and you will never get the answer.

Getting your token listed in exchange requires an agreement actually. It could be a fee that you paid so that you get your coin listed on the exchange or it might be through voting. Some might require some of the token from you, but selling the token is not done by the exchange it is by the users that are part of the program, it is by the users that are holding the coin and the investors actually.

First the requirements varies from exchange to exchange and also to a great extent depends on the type of deal or agreement the project's team had with them. In some cases, the exchange will require to be paid with the listing token while in some cases the exchange might require the payment be made with their native coin or with a particular coin. I have read about cases where some projects made it known that they were asked to pay a certain amount in BTC to be listed.

Who would dare to pay that much to get into an exchange that is not so popular now. Binance DEX only made hype at the beginning and now the hype has lost daily volume in Binance DEX only slightly.

It varies my dear, some exchange want money, payment in cash without other requirements, I guess payment in BTC though but top Exchanges requirements are more than that, they have exchange token they are trying to keep alive like OKB, BNB, HT etc I've heard you will have to buy some % of the tokens to get listed on their exchanges

Depending on your agreement and the exchange. If you deal with the top exchanges in this market, I believe they will require payment in Bitcoin or ETH as a listing fee. But if you deal with small exchanges, they will probably accept your token as a listing fee

I guess you should directly ask the exchange as every exchange might have different policy and requirement.
They will not just accept a listing right away, maybe for small exchange there is less requirement however, you can't expect a volume.

For big exchange, AFAIK, they have a high fee but they have good trading volume so there's a chance a project will grow if investors will its potential.

It all depends but yes, most exchanges the big ones will take actual payment for the listing OR a cut of the sales raised. It varies these days,,, most projects are shite so their tokens are worthless and only small exchanges will take pure tokens, most will do a percentage so they can dump the tokens themselves (yes, it happens believe it or not).

With me, Binance DEX seems to be dead. The projects listed there have no volumes. And if someone pays a hefty amount to be listed there, I believe it's a stupid choice.

I think in this case you will need to strike a deal with the exchange and state what you have in mind while they state theirs then you can choose if it's continue or not. Just know some exchanges may need some deposit of the token or their native coin or even BTC. It depends on what you agreed on.

It depends on the contact between the team of token and the exchange site. Some exchanges take little fees but top exchanges takes huge fees like 10 BTC. Fees depend on the top rank and their conditions before listing. Token creator must fill up the conditions before listing application.

Yeah long gone are the days when exchanges used to list the projects . Now they require a huge some of money which the projects can't afford to pay. Hence many coins are not listed in big exchanges

quite frank most of DEX have no volume and maybe it's because people find it full of inconvenience or any sort of thing but to be listed in binance dex is quite good for the portfolio of that project, you know atleast it got listed in 1 famous exchange despite with low volume.

Right! It will always be good to have listed on a famous exchange no matter the volume is (marketing purposes). We can't deny that Binance is one of the largest and most trusted exchange in the whole crypto space so having it listed on one of its features is a positive thing. Having low volume on exchanges means that people don't like dex exchanges.

The scamming and failed ICO's make the dex suffer for low volume since the demand year by year  is decreasing since no one interested to invest and trade with those erc20 token since most of them are scams.

binance dex is different and still for sure the there are so many people trading on that site since the reputation bough to their first exchange can bring up trust and traders.

So much depends on the exchanges you are dealing with, they want a percentage of your coins besides the listing fee, that is why they are always looking for community support and potential in the market, the exchange usually can pump and dump your coin or token to attract more investors, of course, they always get a profit from doing this, that is why exchange is the second best business in the Crypto industry.

I think before token listing they have agreement about fees, many token listing require to pay with at least with 2 btc, its likely on mid class exchange. If we pay them with token and btc, then the exchange sell our token that of course exchange get the money. Token team get money when its in ICO phase.

thats alot of fee then if they will ask for coins aside from the fee but why would they do that ? i thought exchange only request a fee , if not fee then they will get some of your coins a form of payment   . exchange isnt also the one that pump and dump coins because they dont have the ability to do that  but the one that can do that are whales  or sometimes coin owners too  . exchange is already a platform where you trade your coins  and they already earn enough from this   .

I think this could be the simple situation. Otherwise, all projects can afford to give their shit tokens to the exchange for listing. Also that the exchange too are selective on the token they want to select in. So is not really only about the money but the exchange too decide who they want especially top exchanges.

every exchange has its own rules, I have talked to the team of a project, some exchanges ask for payment to be listed on the exchange,
and of course it requires a lot of fees for the top exchangers, and the obstacle is that condition.

Not Only on there, McafeeDex and a few other Dex exchanges that use ETH anyone can list the token on your own without spending anything.

This is the difference when a certain platform had an another area which focuses on other market will really get that much of attention compared to others which do comes out from nowhere.
Popularity would really be somewhat transferred or being parted on the new service that they are offering which did really happen in Binance DEX yet this one is the current decentralized exchange
that actually gained up some users yet we know on whats the current position of Binance platform speaking of todays thats why its somehow anticipated that people who do make use on the
original platform will consider on using up the other one since they do know that they can trust it up specially to those old users that already know the platform much.

Im not really that surprised that erc20 token based Dexes turns out to be shit after that 2017 bull run yet we have seen on how this being polluted by shit coins and fraud projects which totally
changed up the entire face of ICO or even IEO atm which do result into lost of confidence thats why even legit projects had been greatly affected by this because they cant get such enough
funding since there were no people already trust on throwing up some funds.

Heres some old biggest ICO Scams that bagged millions of usd;

Scam name          Amount of money scammed ($)
Pincoin and iFan           660,000,000
Plexcoin                   15,000,000
Bitcard                   5,000,000
Opair and Ebitz           2,900,000
Benebit                   2,700,000
Bitconnect                   700,000
Confido                   375,000
REcoin and DRC           300,000
Ponzicoin                   250,000
Karbon                   200,000

Source: https://www.finance-monthly.com/2018/10/the-10-biggest-ico-scams-swindled-687-4-million/

So its already a no surprise thing on why people or investors now are hesitant.



Of course to make up some extra bucks, they wont rely just only for a few ways for them to make money and if they do need to ask out for other fee then they would do such thing.
Exchange listing fees are quite common and this is normally being demanded mostly on top ranking platforms in the market.Why? since they do know that they would be hyped up
when it gets listed on known exchange which would result to be a positive or beneficial for investors or coin owner itself.I agree that whales do have impact in any angle.Talking back
on topic on listing then this is one of the most priority of most project owners but it will all vary with the demand because there are exchangers that doesnt asked out any fees but
only they do seek out for liquidity or volume/demand before its considered to be listed.You wouldnt need to pay up some fee and you do just need to prove out that your
project is really worth of to be listed.

There is no gainsaying about it. Definitely, the exchnage owns it. They don't even stop there, they also demand for payment in an already established coin, such as BTC or ETH and sometimes, it could be Stablecoin.
If that should happen and you see a coin dump even before bounty hunters are paid, which is if they are involved, you should know that it is the exchange that is selling.

Sometimes don't need to require Any payment if this is an exchange token. This could be a condition from exchange to gain more user. This token can't increase liquidity pool of any exchange, your rewards and you can do whatever you want to do. But for increase volume of exchange and trading fee could be another technique.

if the Token is on the Ethereum or ERC20 platform, tokens do not have to enter the centralized exchange,
because you can sell ERC20 on the Decentralized exchange and only enter smart contracts and you can trade in there

It is so sad that only fundament what cryptocurrencies can offer is a listing on a big exchange. We all of us talking about the technology, but when token is going to listed on exchange, everyone is buying like mad.

all exchange have different settlement before listing a project. While most of them charge fee for listing, there are still some that require certain other conditions. Such as buying the exchange utility token as part of the agreement. There are still some that introduce a community voting system that enable traders to vote a particular coin for listing, in such case, the coin is always listed freely at the end of the voting system. for more details about exchange and their listing fee you can check this out https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5079048.0

Each exchange has different listing condition and these conditions are to large extent driven by the reputation of the exchange. Most top tier exchanges receive listing fee in different form with the major one being in their token or btc and Stablecoins. A lot of them do opt in to receiving payment in their token system so as to increase their token's demand, just imaging a project buying thousand dollars worths of your tokens all in the name of using it for fee

This is a nice reference for the OP. I hope by now, she already got the answers she needs or at least idea how things go in terms of exchange listing. But most of the time, you have to pay for the listing fee and you make sure that the trading activity of your coin is active because they will delist your coin if there is no trading activity for certain period of time. So you have to watch out for that also.

indeed can increase the trading volume in the token but you should know that to register coins or tokens in some trusted exchange places such as Binance exchange places have very high difficulties and have very expensive fees. when registering a coin or token at a free exchange, it will not guarantee that the price or volume will go up.

I think many top exchanges like binance even other low-rank exchanges take a big amount of listing fees for every pair before start trading. Maybe it's mostly the agreement between that project and exchange. Also, the different exchange has a different condition. I do not think exchange takes a token to increase liquidity. Liquidity came from investor's assets and intention.

Of course, each exchange will have different listing rates, but if it is already a good project, then the fee is negligible. I think only exchanges like Binance, Okex, Huobi have the highest listing fees in this market, and it is very difficult to be listed here. However, if the project is really good, big exchanges will automatically be listed without consulting the project.

A big update can be offered to build a very strong fundamental and i may think if you didn't understand this. Coin was aiming to be listed on a big exchange site due to the possibility to attract more users to build FOMO trend to the coin. That's a side target but the main target was spreading the word about the product.  

No exchange will require you to deposit or trade in large quantities. especially large exchanges. Currently there are many fraudulent exchanges and created just to take over the money of traders. Never use reputable exchanges in the crypto market, you will easily be robbed of money.

A lot of major exchanges will ask that you partner with third-party liquidity providers. Some exchanges will also provide this service directly.

You don't always have to GIVE the liquidity provider your tokens, but you will often need to loan them a large sum, which they'll then use to keep your spreads minimized and ensure all buy/sell orders can be matched quickly.

You'll also need to ensure that you've got NDAs in place and a solid team structure with known executives. Most exchanges wont list without this, since there is too high a risk of insider trading.

You should read more about blockchain technology and ERC20 token instead. The gist of it depends on each exchange with its own protocol. But most implement 'call' base on the ruleset from ERC20 token or coins with their own chain to place orders and execute buy and sell commands.

How many cryptocurrency exchanges are there? Thousand? Or ten thousand? There are simply too many exchanges in existence, and it is not practical to keep a watch on each one of them. Obviously a few of them would be run by the scammers. And another thing to note is that, even if a token get listed in a good exchange, there is no guarantee that it's future potential would be good.

In most cases, exchanges require BTC fee for listing your project. Some shady exchange may accept your project coin/token but that will make your project pump and dump coin. Exchange will pump the coin to sell their bag. Anyway, it's pretty good to go with good exchanges with higher fee than listing your project into shady exchanges.

I really do not fully understand the OP question. But at least I can understand at least.

To be sure each exchange has its own policies, between the project developer and the exchange. And for tokens or coins that are exchanged there will be conditions. And to go further, maybe the one who can find out is the developer itself. Are there any fees or other conditions.

Getting listed on exchange platform is the most important stage that makes or mar any crypto currency project.
A wrong exchange listing, would definitely kill the project, while a good exchange listing, keeps the projects hope of excellence alive.

Making a listing on the top exchanges, means massive profits for investors, so as a dev or investor, what do you think is best to list a token ?

indeed sometimes they are the founders of the exchange where the fee is required to register to the place of exchange, but I think it will be worth it when you register a coin in a trusted exchange and have a high trading volume because if registering at an exchange is not good it will not be as expected .

Bigger exchange site needs a lot of requirements or more fees. I should remind you that sometimes the big exchange site is also wanna offer a free listing event but it is not so easy as people said consider about the coin must be chosen and there were a lot of participants too.
A new project needs think for a twice to be registered on big exchange site

This is important stage in the crypto stage of projects.
It deals with the growth of the project.

A right exchange listing, leads the project to a better future growth.
A wrong exchange listing, begins a downfall trend for the project if care is not taken.

I thought it was done through user votes lol. I mean, user voted for the next coin to be listed from a list of coins. And then the exchange contacted those developer team. The team pays them a fee to get listed.
But looks like no vote takes place and they only receive money or tokens from the team. Ahhh I guess this is why those shitty exchanges have lots of shit coins listed on their site.

Understanding the agreement is the first thing that comes to place, that is, as someone who want to list his/her project, you will need to understand the terms and conditions attached to the listing, thus knowing if it is in the best interest of the project or not. There are some project teams which starts from smaller exchanges just because they couldn't meet up with the listing fee or listing agreement. In addition, the listing agreement can come with depositing tokens or paying with Bitcoin, ETH, Native token etc hence my reason for saying one will need to understand the underlying agreement and know if it's in the project's best interest.

Agree with you, most major exchanges will require BTC fees to list new projects. And small exchanges will require project tokens so they can pump and dump it later. It all depends on the agreement of the project and the exchange to get the best results

Exchanges nowadays improved a lot and provide you with basically a bot that will do the spreads itself. That way you put in bitcoin (if your coin trades with bitcoin) and your own coin into one account and connect that account to what the exchange has given you and you magically have a big volume. Of course this takes a lot of money, many people thinks that fee is not that much for a coin owner but I know a guy who has spent 160 bitcoins for 8 months just to keep his coin listed in some small exchange (idax) and not even binance or whatever.

So, exchanges literally help you have a fake volume which helps them have fake volume and look bigger while also profiting at the same time as well. The real trouble is to get real volume, fake one is quite easy as you can see.

i think it is a 50-50 agreement. the project owner provides some portion of their token to provide liquidity while users are required to deposit the other part for trading. that is why most project runs a competition to draw attention of the platform users in other to trade or buy the token whenever they list in a new exchange.
Also this is part of the reason why most projects have a limited supply of their token. for further exchange listing and promotion.