Personally (not speaking as a team member), I'd not worry too much about it. I think the main thing for the project now is to see SME and Taurion released.

After that, then it makes more sense to look at exchanges. The game releases will make listing much easier as the exchanges will see the concrete results and have greater faith in the project and its potential.

But, that's just my personal take on it. I'm looking long term as I fully expect us to be around for a very long time.

I think perhaps THE major hurdle is for people to actually understand what blockchain is, and then to understand what we're doing with it. Nobody else is doing what we are. It's unique and the nuances are not always easy to explain.

For example, exactly how computationally complex games are possible on XAYA but not possible on Ethereum is very clear to me, but explaining that requires certain background information that I think many people are lacking. That makes explaining it difficult. The tl;dr there is that computation is done ON the blockchain in Ethereum in smart contracts, but XAYA offloads computation OFF the blockchain so you don't run into things like it being impossible to have a chess game because check mate is too computationally expensive and gas prices would be insane. That offloading of computation is really important for computational scalability.

I believe that we'll see CHI on CMC, but just not right now.