There are more exchanges other than Binance which can be referred as tier-1. However, exchange listing doesn't matter that much. We had Kucoin but being delisted from Kucoin was the worst which DEV team could hold on by introducing some trading competition etc etc.
And you said project is planning long term, any sign of that?
DeepSend with 1000 ONION has been released. Do we have any targeted group of users, how are we reaching to them?
At that time, the market value of the development funds was the highest. You can't calculate it at $20 each. Someone must accept the price of 175 BTC in exchange.
Thank you for mentioning these additional information.
To your points:
1. Nice that the Team was willing, but more important is the result than the willing.
2. Really all big exchanges requested listing fee of 3 million USD? And even if so, only the Dev fund was worth of more than 50 million USD at that time. Now, it's worth only around 150,000 USD so the result is that DeepOnion has neither good exchange nor funds to get listed.
3. There was enough liquidity at the peak of bullrun so it was possible to convert ONION to BTC and then to USD or maybe some part even directly to USD.
4. No coin can 100% guarantee that the price won't go below the listing price. With such condition, no coin would be listed ever, does not make sense at all.
But listing on a big exchange was probably not the biggest mistake, considering the fact that DeepOnion did not manage to keep listed even on mid-sized exchange Kucoin due to low volumes. Bigger mistake is missing marketing which would bring new investors and traders creating both volume and price increase. Then the listing on some bigger exchange will become more relevant.
And I'd be happy to support the project, but tell me, what are the long-term goals? I don't see any of them defined in an updated roadmap.