I've been involved in a couple of projects now and the question always comes up - "where should we try to get listed?"
Recently, popular alt-coin exchanges like cryptopia and novaexchange have raised their prices by thousands of dollars (you know you are getting quality coins when only the rich can list their coins, right? lol.)
So... lets figure out which altcoin exchanges are good for new coins, or at least which of them are less sucky. In this thread, if we do it right, we will have:
Love Letters
Horror Stories
Name Dropping
Flames about how the exchanges have betrayed specific coins (e.g. Ctopia refusing to list PIEX a few months after the community paid to get PIE listed)
An evolving, useful list of exchanges that new coins should approach and exhanges to avoid
I'll start out.
Exchange: coinsmarkets.com - I know folks that really dislike this site, but I think they are pretty great.
PROS:
- Their interface is weird looking but strangely effective at getting things done w/ minimal clicking
- they stake POS coins
- they add new coins in a HURRY
- They respond to support emails
- They care about not listing coins from scammers (one email I got was "we don't want to list it because it's just like the other 10 projects from that dev" )
CONS:
- ridiculously low volume
- boring trolls
How to get listed:
email "
[email protected]" with coin specs
Here's a list of exchanges sorted by number of coins, which may not be the best indicator for friendliness to altcoins but it's a start.
I didn't list bittrex because it's apparently "invite only" now?
I didn't list poloniex because they haven't bothered to respond to my support ticket opened on Tue, 8 Aug at 5:19 PM. (#369572).
I didn't list cryptopia or novaexchange because they are doing the "pay to play" game which (imo) rewards rich scammers and stifles innovation.
If any altcoiners have experience with these exchanges please contribute a pros and cons for them or a "personal story about what it was like to work with them" or whatever info you think people would benefit from. I'd like to focus on info that is useful for new coins that are trying to get listed but anything you can contribute is useful if we get enough data I'll make a spreadsheet on google docs for us.
C-Cex
Livecoin
CoinExchange
HitBTC
Liqui
Bter
Bleutrade
Tidex
Kraken
Gate.io
Binance
Bitfinex
BTC38
EXMO
Gatecoin
Bittylicious
BTC-e / WEX
Quoine
CEX.IO
Allcoin
Abucoins
Yunbi
Vircurex
Bisq
Bitstamp
Bithumb