Kucoin is the mid tier exchange
This has been the only interesting one in this whole process and was ironically the first one that committed
1,500 btc is a low volume exchange, kucoin does 5x of that
Im not sure anybody here would have said yes pls drop dough on btc-alpha, or for cryptxchange or for stocks.exchange if those two had asked
You have to be in tune with what the market wants before acting surprised one of your unilateral well meaning initiatives falls completely flat
Everyone has their own opinions when it comes to classifying exchange tiers. IMO, less than 100BTC is low volume.. any platform able to achieve 1000+ range, is again, IMO mid tier. 10,000 and up is high volume. I suppose you have upper and lower tiers within each bracket. Definitions aside, my point is that the project needs an interim exchange that is functional for trading (charts, execution etc) something sorely lacked at stocks. In addition, an exchange where their buy order isn't larger than 10% of the overall volume of the exchange which doesn't inspire confidence for someone leaving that up there on stocks. My surprise is aimed squarely at those asking in PMs for better exchanges and when one comes around the available inventory stays on Stocks.
We're in talks with some of the largest exchanges by volume. This is why Zoidberg made the off-line signing API improvement as it is a requirement for those exchanges. My goal with the Alpha listing was to provide this community with a trading platform that they can feel comfortable leaving larger buy/sell orders up without worrying about the exchange viewing it as low hanging fruit. I'm not saying Stocks will steal funds but the fact that Alpha has done over 1000BTC in volume in the recent past is a confidence boost for anyone with those types of concerns.
That said, the project needs to be trading (at bare minimum) in the 100k+ Satoshi range before we can finalize talks with the higher tier exchanges (Kucoin aside). The listing fees (in BBR) are much too high relative to Boolberry's marketcap. Zoidberg&Co and Hashapplicance&Co are in channel with those exchanges and will be able to follow up with the negotiations when that bridge is ready to be crossed.