Do you know the common listing fee on exchanges nowadays?
Tier 1 and lower Tier exchanges. I hope that exchanges don't charge too expensive listing cost.
If possible, the community can consider to contribute to the listing pool for this project. One person can not help but if the community do together, the listing pool will have good fund.
Generally, contributions will bring win win situations for all participants in the pool.
The team can run a contest with it too. Contributors will have records for their donation amount. If the listing process goes well and the price after listing is a big successful, top contributors will be rewarded with some awards.
50 BGL now can have same value of 10 BGL after a big successful listing. I think it is fair enough if 50 BGL contributor will be rewarded back with 5 BGL award.
From what I know in Binance, they don't charge listing fee but some sort of donation fee as they send those funds to charity. So it depends on the project itself, how strong this is in the market. Like for example, SHIB, Binance listed it because of the demand from the market, and they know they need to list it to get the share from the market. And we all know, there's nothing in its foundation. But for other exchanges, would be hard if you have no funds as they have ridiculous fees that the team can use it for their development instead.