Obvious that you didn't read my 2 recent posts WHY AE definitvly SHOULD, NOW!
My reason is not volume (although thats fine and nice with me) BUT its the change of the token API after MainNet.
Does anybody think Liqui.io, Gate.io and especially HitBTC are just waiting that they can install AEs new token API?
Does anybody think they will do it for free and quickly?
And what will happen if you change AE ERC-20 token to MainNets new coin format and people aren't able to trade them?
Situations with exchanges have seriously changed since the last 4 month. I can tell from experience with BOScoin.
ICOs piling up at the doors of exchanges, why they should go through the hassle of adapting their API or
install a new blockchains node, when fresh ICOS are willing to pay ANYTHING to get listed???
Again my suggestion to get listed at KuCoin, now, with a contract to have the API exchanged later at MainNet.
Why KuCoin exchange? Its rel. new but growing fast, listing is not so expensive atm and the are eager to list all blockchain platforms.
Don't trust spoken promises of exchanges from month ago. Insist on a contract if you have such promises.
Im not an expert with those issues, but what you wrote kind of makes sense to me. Actually I was also all the time good with the idea that we should wait until mainnet launch to hit bigger exchanges because this would give a special kind of push when hitting bigger exchanges. I didnt think about the points you made though, if its really a big deal for the exchanges to work with new blockchain apis than it really should be cared for rather sooner than later. Maybe Ae could get in touch with exchanges to sort this stuff out and make a contract with them to set the trading start to the mainnet launch date? Just to work on possible problems before they will show up and therefore delay things. This would be awesome.
In this sense, happy new year to all! Hold AE in 2018!