Exchange listing support for token projects

A legal entity and KYB on the founders. A completed smart contract audit from a recognised firm. Tokenomics with a vesting schedule the exchange can read. Evidence of a community and a working product. And a Market Maker, named in the application, because the exchange wants to know the book will be there on day one.

Binance's own listing application asks for all of these. The full list, with what each item takes to prepare, is in Binance listing requirements.

a reputable firm takes four to eight weeks and exchanges will not review an application without it. Market Maker onboarding runs in parallel and takes four to six weeks. Projects that start both at the same time are ready for the application in around eight weeks.

MEXC, for example, applies a 2% spread ceiling and a $50,000 daily volume floor under its monitoring criteria. A token that falls below gets a warning designation, and typically has around three days to bring the metrics back into range before the delisting process starts. This is the part of listing support that continues after the listing. Why tokens get flagged and what the window looks like is in why tokens get delisted.

The listing fee is paid to the exchange and is separate from the desk's fee. They are different budget lines, and the most common budgeting mistake we see is treating the listing fee as the whole cost of listing. What exchanges actually charge, and why the range is wide, is in how much it costs to list a token on an exchange.

Every additional venue adds infrastructure and inventory, and a token spread thin across five books is easier to flag than one that is deep on two. We usually recommend funding two books properly at launch and adding venues once the first ones are stable.

The reasoning is in how many exchanges to launch on.