Personally I have only been interested in the tech ever since I read @dirvine slashdot comments on his exciting new project. Price has always come a distant third and is most of interest in how it will relate to incentives for securing the Safe Network. I do care a lot about gaining developers and mindshare for this project however.
Unfortunately it is not so black and white and although obvious some may have missed this dynamic: Every failed exchange reflects really badly on the Safe Network project. Every time a CEX delists MAID due to no volume, exit scams or outright steals MAID it generates bad press for this project that ripples out through the rest of the decentralised community forums, and unfortunately bad news travels faster than good. Add on top of this that outside of this community in the wider decentralised project space it is generally accepted that only scammy projects without much potential in and of themselves PAY to be listed. Spend some time where the rest of the decentralised network mind share is, and you will find that this is the consensus, for obvious reasons.
I realise that traditional exchanges (all 50 odd of them worldwide the landscape is very centralised) run this model: but that does not mean it is right or we have to suffer it, there are better alternatives. Note that the link I provided above shows Polkadot was listed on Binance without paying their normal extortion fee. Projects with integrity do not need pay a dime to be listed on Binance or anywhere else: no forum polls to raise funds. It is not a “powerful relationship”, it is that when the tech speaks for itself doors open. The Safe Network is just coming into its own now and there is no need to shoot ourselves in the foot by paying extortion fees and branding ourselves as a scammy project in the process and all the negative connotations that generates with the very developers and community we want to attract.
So @Sotros25 your in there pulling large hours using all your creative energy and that is commendable, but as a community member I claim my right to say your pushing shit uphill in this one singular instance, paying for listings reflects really badly on the Safe Network project and drags us all down into the muck in the process. Calling us freeloaders for providing constructive criticism just adds insult to injury. Please consider this constructive criticism in a positive light we all want the same thing here: A Successful Safe Network launch with dominant mindshare in the developer and DaPP communities. Your method in this particular instance is damaging that effort.
I was quite surprised to see the MaidSafe twitter channel promoting p2pb2b.io, an exchange with a long, coloured, negative history. If (when?) it de-lists or worse Maid that will generate another wave of negative press. Why do bother with the repeat abuse?
There is a better way…
There is already a very credible DEX, we will never get better than this for Omni as it is designed and built by the core omni Protocol team: OmniDEX.
So perhaps the real question question your asking is: Why does nobody use Omni DEX or Omni in general? Why are the tens of thousands of Dapp users and all the developer hours being spent elsewhere while Omni continues its downward trajectory? The world of decentralised networks with developer networks numbering in the thousands, large Dapp user base have all moved on to other more flexible, easier to develop on pastures. In that world scammy CEXs and paying for listings are frowned upon as being telltale signs of a project with little merit trying to buy its way in.
The Safe Network is going to carve out a whole new category but Omni is not going to help us get there and it has long been hindering it (perhaps a good thing in the lead up to the first test networks). This whole thread and the dozens similar to it, years of angst, it all comes back to the Omni token. Inflexible, unsupported, no dev attention, no liquidity… no mindshare. Forcing those that use it down to the level of paying to get listed it on scammy exchanges that have consistently lost, stolen and destroyed millions of Maidsafecoin and generated large amounts of negative news for us.
There is a bettter way, other projects have shown us the path: If you note the Omnidex listings, MaidsafeCoin is the last project standing. It was the first and now it is the last. Omni project listing #2 Tether is consistently decreasing Omni issuance and has moved onto the other networks (ERC20, Polkadot etc) soon it will phase Omni out all together. The most interesting case was Omni project #3: the Tauchain project Agoras token which just recently threw in the towel on Omni and moved to greener pastures, in their own words to:
- Increase our community base by making our token accessible to the ERC-20 community
- List on additional exchanges: desired by the community for long, the switch to ERC-20 will give us access to additional exchanges such as Uniswap
- Provide additional secure storage options for our token holders
If we want to sustainably attract decentralised developers and Dapp user attention to this project then that may be a constructive example to learn from. Wholesale ERC20 conversion of all Omni MaidSafeCoins would be a gift that keeps on giving for years to come, as a stepping stone conduit between the current biggest decentralised network community into the future Safe Network.