There's a lot that we could go back and forth on here, but overall I agree- every single exchange that we work with, we attempt to get posting here on chain. Most don't have the time or effort to put into that type of marketing overhead, as again, perceived value of community building here based on volume is a big one vs other places they could be using. I have explained at length how they can use our incentive structure to create passionate brand ambassadors with basically no expenditure, but it hasn't been enough of a draw as of yet. I have one or two we're working with to at very least make introductions on chain.
To be very honest, Binance sort of swept everyone on this by releasing Binance square- we had a few meetings trying to convince them to use Hive as the basis for that system since we literally already have it built, but unfortunately too much lay outside of their control and it did not tie back to their own tokens. We are actually working with them now to try to figure out if they will graciously allow us to connect RSS feeds from our content here to their platform there, lol, so we shall keep at it.
As for MM/Liquidity- any amount at all would have to be paid by DAO, and therefore would have to be public. This certainly does raise some issues, as almost every company and platform providing numbers will NOT allow you to share the costs (similar to most listing deals) and will put a rep under NDA. It also means that they structure their documents and pitches to us a little differently, but I've been approaching all our exchange partners recently to see if I can at least collect some broad info on expectations and what could be provided on platform, to give us an idea if we want to look to intermediary options for the future or bother to do it at all.
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