The Crypto Listing Paradox: The struggle for all Small Crypto Projects and How to Prevail.
In the dynamic world of cryptocurrencies, gaining a listing on a centralized exchange (CEX) can be a pivotal moment for any project, opening doors to liquidity, exposure, and potential growth. However, for small crypto projects, this journey comes with a paradoxical perverse challenge – the Crypto Listing Paradox.
“The business model of centralized exchanges as we know today, encourages fraud and project failure.”
CEXs, often regarded as gatekeepers to broader market participation, present a complex set of requirements for projects seeking a listing. While these platforms can significantly boost a project’s credibility, the demands placed on small crypto projects, with a small marketcap, can be financially frightening. Here’s a breakdown of the challenges faced by these projects:
- Listing Fees: CEXs typically require projects to pay substantial listing fees (up to $500.000), acting as a barrier to entry. For smaller projects with limited resources, this initial financial burden can hinder their chances of securing a listing. So CEXs will let those projects pay with their own tokens. After the project gets listed, the tokens are being dumped by the CEX to pay for the fee and the token price plummets. Leaving the crypto community and the project with bags full of sand.
- Market Maker: Beyond listing fees, CEXs may recommend or mandate projects to engage market makers to enhance liquidity. This adds another layer of cost, as market makers often charge fees for their services.
- Marketing Campaigns: To stand out in the competitive crypto landscape, projects are often asked to invest in marketing campaigns like trading competitions. This expenditure, while potentially beneficial for exposure, poses a challenge for projects operating on tight budgets.
- Community Engagement: CEXs expect projects to bring in traders from their own community. This requires active participation and engagement, putting the onus on project teams to foster a vibrant and involved user base. This often results in buying fake followers and pumping fake volume to meet the CEXs requirements.
- Volume Maintenance: Maintaining a high trading volume is crucial for remaining listed on a CEX. Failure to do so can lead to delisting, resulting in the loss of funds invested in the listing process.
The paradox lies in the fact that the only way to avoid paying exorbitant listing fees for listing a token on a CEX is, to already be a sizable project.
Which only seem to be achieved by being listed on a CEX. Paying exorbitant listing fees is a risk that always reflects back to the crypto community.
This Catch-22 situation creates a perverse challenge for small crypto projects striving to gain visibility, traction and protecting their community. These things cannot possibly go together.
It results in a correlation between the listing and negative price action pointed out by The Crypto Professor. He researched several coin listings on MEXC and wrote a nice article on the Medium platform, which underpins the crypto listing paradox.
However, there is hope. The crypto community plays a vital role in breaking this paradox. Collective action, even in small doses, can significantly impact a project’s trajectory. A few minutes of engagement each day, whether through group messages, tweets, retweets, or comments on influential accounts, can contribute to building the necessary momentum.
While the Crypto Listing Paradox poses a significant hurdle for small crypto projects, community support and active engagement can be powerful tools for overcoming these challenges. By fostering a collaborative spirit within the crypto space, we can help promising projects defy the odds and thrive in the ever-evolving landscape of digital assets.
Justmoney’s decentralized cryptocurrency platform, just.money on Polygon, Ethereum, Tron, Binance Chain, and BTTC addresses the Crypto Listing Paradox by providing a cost-effective defi platform. It offers projects an opportunity to list tokens free of charge across multiple blockchains, within a fast growing decentralized crypto ecosystem that goes beyond the limitations of traditional centralized exchanges. Here is how:
- Projects or tokenholders can provide liquidity that can be redeemed anytime.
- Providing liquidity the liquidity provider earns 83,30% of the trading fees from the platform.
For example: the annual interest on the JM/USDT pool on Binance Smart Chain is at the time of writing, over 12%.
- The other part of the fee (16,70%) is being used to maintain the platform.
- The JustMoney Suite for small crypto projects comes with an Automated Market Maker, a Payment Terminal, an Invoicing System and many more tools.
- All services are free of charge but financed by each transaction.
“This business model is much more sustainable than current business models of the traditional centralized exchanges.”
The recent partnership between TheManeToken and JustMoney can tackle the Crypto Listing Paradox by leveraging Mane Token’s marketing expertise. Mane Token’s strategic campaigns and engaged community can enhance visibility for projects on Justmoney, fostering cross-promotion and addressing B2B needs. With Justmoney’s presence on multiple blockchains, the collaboration aims for sustained ecosystem growth, offering a decentralized and sustainable alternative to traditional exchange listings and marketing campaigns.
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Link to the original article on Steemit: The Crypto Listing Paradox: The struggle for all Small Crypto Projects and How to Prevail. — Steemit
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