See the following:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2019/09/30/bitcoin-giants-coinbase-circle-kraken-bittrex-grayscale-and-others-band-together-to-rate-tokens/#68441bac7a01Now, bitcoin trading and investment giants Anchorage, Bittrex, Circle, Coinbase, DRW Cumberland, Genesis, Grayscale, and Kraken have banded together to create the Crypto Rating Council in order to better decide which digital assets can and cannot be traded on their platforms.
The group have created what they call a "scalable, points-based rating system" to help define whether a cryptocurrency is or is not a security.
The system will use a set of several dozen questions, "derived directly from SEC guidance and case law."
"We also worked hard to focus our framework on objective, repeatable, fact-driven questions that can be answered consistently by technical experts across different assets and over time," Coinbase wrote in a blog post announcing the council.
The system will give bitcoin and similar digital tokens a score between one and five, with a score of one meaning the council’s independent analysis suggests the asset has few or no characteristics consistent with a traditional regulated security.
So in addition to paying them a lot to get listed, the developers of new alts need to jump through these new opaque hoops.
If I'm not mistaken, I think most of those alts will still be eligible to list on those large exchanges as long as it is not categorized as a security - which is covered by regulating bodies such as SEC and may have to comply with certain requirements as mandated by existing laws and regulations (in other words, it has too many red tape).
So far, I understand that article pertains to the creation of CRC - Crypto Rating Council to categorized any crypto as a security or not via a rating method. Interestingly, Bitcoin was given a rating of 1 - meaning to say it is less likely to be a security and so does other cryptos because if a crypto is indeed considered as a security, exchanges will have to undergo regulatory compliance prior to a tokens listing and that I think exchanges are trying to avoid with.
Here is the link for a similar topic for reference:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.52605858