Didn't you create Komodo, jl777? - which is listed on many big exchanges.
Due to that, I assumed (no doubt wrongly) that you would already have contact with many exchanges, who should be interested in all your future projects including CHIPS.
Personally I think CHIPS is pretty cool.
sure they are all happy to get paid $100,000 to list another coin.
the exchanges make money for listing, it is part of their business model to make sure they can pay the rent even if nobody uses their exchange
to be fair, there are some exchanges that will list coins based on non-financial subsidy aspects, just the well established ones are maximizing their profits. which is their right, and they use it
Indeed, I can't imagine any popular centralised exchange being anything other than expensive to list at, these days.
Therefore the aim may be for a "cheap good" option, aka reasonably priced (which is still going to be relatively expensive!) non top tier exchange which is up and coming (consistently increasing in volume). I am not knowledgeable to name such a one off top of my head. But I think those may be a balanced criteria to follow.
A good project must more than make the listing money back (else why is anyone else bothering?!), and this project has the fundamentals to be popular. And with that popularity would come the financials to afford further listings.
Well, all good in theory. I'm not the one offering the listing money, obviously.