The number of tokens will increase by orders of magnitude this cycle.

Listing doesn't scale. You have to index.

Yahoo! Directory vs. Google

https://x.com/jconorgrogan/status/1882833028113903996

“We need to rethink our listing process” 👀

We need to rethink our listing process at @coinbase given there are ~1m tokens a week being created now, and growing. High quality problem to have, but evaluating each one by one is no longer feasible. And regulators need to understand that applying for approval for each one is…

Brian Armstrong

“We need to rethink our listing process” 👀 

https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1883329603239899346?s=46

Couldn’t they just look up whatever folks share on socials or trade using apps like interface etc

Depends on the chain ofc but based tokens been surely underrepresented on coinbase

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The ONLY reason I can see (with limitations of what's going on behind the scenes)

Because of the connection with Base and Coinbase they didn't want to promote coins especially if one turns out to be bad.

They were already heavily scrutinized, they probably were playing it safe.