'Don't pay it' - CZ shares unpopular opinion about Binance's listing fees

Binance’s founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao stated that crypto projects are not under any obligation to pay listing ￰1￱ projects have other alternatives for trading infrastructure, not only CEX ￰2￱ founder of Binance Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said that crypto projects are under no obligation to pay listing fees, even those requested by ￰3￱ projects could try to branch out on their own, as exchanges list them based on merit, he ￰4￱ responded to the latest drama around Binance listings after the crypto community made allegations about the exchange’s process of listing new ￰5￱ on recent reports, Binance requested up to 10% of the token supply as a listing ￰6￱ has been in the crosshairs before, accused of asking high prices to list new coins and ￰7￱ to Zhao, centralized listings are not the only path for crypto ￰8￱ opinion post: On Listing "Fees" (saw this a few times recently) ￰9￱ you are a project complaining about listing airdrops or "fees" (to users), Don't pay ￰10￱ your project is strong, exchanges will race to list your ￰11￱ you have to beg an exchange to list,… ￰0￱ — CZ 🔶 BNB (@cz_binance) October 15, 2025 Zhao explained that exchanges have different approaches to listings, from adding every new token to carefully curating assets, while asking for airdrops and additional ￰12￱ responded to the recent tweet by the founder of Limitless , CJ ￰13￱ then, other projects have reiterated that Binance has similar requirements, requesting payments and airdrops throughout the listing ￰14￱ has been selected as the go-to exchange due to its outsized liquidity and ￰15￱ newly listed projects also perform airdrops to BNB holders, meaning all BNB whales end up with sizeable allocations from new projects, in addition to the listing ￰16￱ paid listings also open a discussion on another problem for Binance – some of the newly listed tokens often crash soon after the listing or depend heavily on market ￰17￱ boasts of a process with no listing fees The renewed discussion around Binance listings brought forward Hyperliquid’s ￰18￱ perp DEX carries spot tokens, each of them listed only by paying HYPE gas ￰19￱ Hyperliquid, there is no listing fee, no listing department, and no ￰20￱ deployment on Hyperliquid is ￰21￱ can deploy a spot asset by paying a gas fee in ￰22￱ can choose to receive up to 50% of trading fees on their spot pairs.… — Hyperliquid (@HyperliquidX) October 15, 2025 Hyperliquid was in favor of newly launched decentralized projects having a completely permissionless listing ￰23￱ perp DEX also gives exposure to high-liquidity traders, though not at the same level as centralized markets.

Additionally, Hyperliquid has shown problems with smaller liquidity pools. However, the DEX still offers opportunities for self-listed pairs, and recently, even builder-deployed perp DEX ￰24￱ Binance lose its top position? During the 2025 bull market, Binance and its decentralized ecosystem expanded and gained additional ￰25￱ was also posting peak volumes, as some of the Binance Alpha tokens provided liquidity on their DEX pair to boost ￰26￱ recent wave of liquidations , which affected specifically Binance-listed assets, once again underscored the issue of listing risky tokens for ￰27￱ discussion on token donations and additional listing fees, even for Binance Alpha tokens, further hurt the reputation of Binance.

However, for others, the listing fees are simply a part of the crypto business model, and some market operators will always request various forms of ￰28￱ Bybit now and claim a $50 bonus in minutes