The plan was to make the coin, create the network, listing on some pools, listing on ihostmn so it is cheap to run a masternode by anyone, list on one exchange so anybody can trade the coin (miners, etc), imagine to list on an exchange when there are 10 million mined, it is a greater risk to dump the coin, in my opinion giving the possibility to everyone buy and sell from now is low risk to dump larger amounts later (just in my opinion), next exchanges will be by community voting, I applied for crex24 voting at the moment, let's see if they choose the project for the next round of voting.
I mean to list on an exchange cost some money so I don't see it as a bad thing that I paid to get listed, that's why was that 1 mil premine to set up everything then let the coin to the community to decide next steps.
Actually will need to list again on an exchange that is listed on coingecko and cmc so once the coin is listed there we can request to get listed on coingecko and cmc, if the exchange is not listed in this two (cmc and coingecko) we also can't apply because we will not be approved because from the exchanges they took the statistics of the coin.
Listing on CMC and Coingecko mean a lot of new members that will join and the greater community.
By the way, everyone is invited to the discord and telegram channel to start developing, sharing on social media, etc, without the community, the coin cannot grow.