[bisq-network/proposals] Listing fee policy - step 1 (general) (#35)

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This proposal writing was suggested by @manfredkarrer after a short exchange on slack.


Proposal for listing fee policy - step 1 (general)
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Listing fee policy is imo important for Bisq.
Up to now, free listing has been the rule, see https://docs.bisq.network/exchange/howto/list-asset.html

Bisq has more than 130 altcoins listed (https://bisq.network/faq/#altcoins), which costs Bisq BSQ, dev time, promotion time (and reputation).
(Actually, Bisq does promotion for altcoins ... while altcoins do quite few promotion for Bisq).

If we look at the statistics on several months (see https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o-I5fAx7DJRVqYjW8fPbo0ztlGIhIZ1EM2iLc5aEHnA/edit#gid=1000435171) there are less than 10 altcoins having effective trades.
And ~80 altcoins having day after day simply absolutely **no offers** at all.

Not only does this lead nowhere, but it doesn't help conveying the image of a dynamic market place.
(For a (too) big part of the listing, it looks more like a kind of an altcoin cemetery. Imo it has a negative reputation effect.)

Considering this situation, this proposal has as object to change the current listing fee policy.

The proposal as a whole, if we accept the proposed directions, will need to go into technical details.
However, I don't want to mix general direction with technical details and numbers, so I proceed here with a first simple an general proposal.

If there is no consensus for the general direction, no need to propose technical details.

So here are the first suggestions :

1/ I suggest that Bisq continues to apply a **"no politics"** rule for listing altcoins.
Listing/unlisting should be only a matter of numbers.
This means also that the **same** rule should apply for all altcoins.

2/ End free listing :
By asking nothing in order to be listed, we encourage numerous altcoins communities to just do the listing job ... and absolutely nothing after this point.
Listing process ended, there is **no incitative** for the altcoin promoter to do anything on Bisq.
By asking some fees, maybe even very small, we could stop this _"list me and see me never again"_ attitude.
Asking some fees should help the concerned altcoin community to think about doing something on Bisq in order to help to generate trades.
And this will be positive for everybody.
Listing may still continue to be free for a limited time, under certain conditions. 
But free listing forever policy will end.

If there is consensus about those simple general lines, I can deepen things in a next proposal.
The goal being however to have a proposal having in mind to do things as smoothly as possible and avoid also massive and/or brutal unlisting.


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