If coinbase was not doing it and then another cexs will be robbed their daily trade volume. You must always remember that sometimes the volume gets centralized into the some new tokens that have not yet listed in coinbase. You can imagine if CB customer was also moving their money to that token and it's not yet listed in coinbase. That would be a disaster if coinbase didn't actively listing the new tokens on its market. Im so glad that CB has been changing.
I totally agree with you, that's why they listed Shiba Inu (SHIB) a while ago, they don't want to lose the profit momentum from trading fees
I've read the news that you @Tellek Garing attached, another interesting thing about the article is that almost all assets listed this year are from the ERC20 network.
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Nearly all the assets listed this year are ERC-20 tokens on the Ethereum network. Why? Because they would be deemed “sufficiently decentralized.” This phrase is taken from a speech that William Hinman (former director of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance) made in June 2018.