Legendary#0001
GSR × Stake DAOSetup fee + retainer + loan, 2022
Setup fee$100,000
Retainer$20,000 a month
OutcomeApproved
Genesis drop · data verified 10 Sep 2026
Every market maker deal that went public, minted as evidence.
Eleven deals whose terms became public through court filings, governance votes and leaked documents. Rarity is how well the record is sourced. Traits are the numbers. Every trait is open, with its source. All market makers.
11Deals on record
10From primary documents
+50%Median strike
4Burned desks
term 12 mo
10 records from primary documents
Every record: source, date, grade
0 paid placements
0 ad or analytics trackers
Public corrections log
Collection
8 of 11 shown
Disclosed deals
Rarity is the confidence level of the source. Legendary means a primary document: a court filing, a regulator or an on-chain governance vote. Burned means a conviction or a regulator's fraud charges.
Legendary#0001
Epic#0002
Epic#0003
Legendary#0004
Epic#0005
Rare#0006
Burned#0009
Burned#0011
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Grade 5verified 13 Sep 2026
Binance × Blockstack (STX), listing, October 2019
- Listing payment833,333 STX
- Renewals3 × 833,333 STX, yearly, while listed
- Marketing services$100,000
- Returnable deposit$500,000 + 2,500,000 STX
The filing gives no dollar value for the token payments. Press valued the first 833,333 STX at about $250,000.
Source: Blockstack PBC offering circular, Part II, filed with the SEC →Burnedverified 13 Sep 2026
Gotbit, market maker, sentenced June 2025
- Service soldFake trading volume
- FounderPleaded guilty, 8 months in prison
- ForfeitedAbout $23 million in crypto
- The firm5 years probation, must cease to operate
Charged in October 2024 by the Department of Justice, with parallel civil fraud charges from the SEC.
Source: US Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts →Free tool
Decode your term sheet
Set the terms your desk proposed. Defaults are the market median across the collection: 12 months, strike 50 percent over TGE, retainer benchmark from a public GSR proposal.
If the token trades at 3x
$3,000,000
kept by the desk against a strike of $0.15. A retainer for the same 12 months: $240,000.
Intrinsic value at exit, not a Black-Scholes price: assumes the desk exercises whenever the price clears the strike. Ignores volatility, the desk's own trading and any profit share. Not financial advice.
Listings
What a listing actually requires
Twenty venues from tier 1 to entry level. Every figure is open, with its source and grade. One row is fully public because a US regulatory filing forced it into the open.
| Venue | Tier | Listing fee | Audit | Entity | Market maker | Timeline | Rarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $300k to $800k | Required | Required | Required | 8-24 wks | Rare | |
 Binance × Blockstack, 2019 | 1 | 833,333 STX + yearly renewals, details | Required | Required | Required | - | Legendary |
| 1 | $0, stated policy | Required | Required | Required | 8-12 wks | Epic | |
| 1 | $300k to $500k | Required | Required | Required | 8-12 wks | Rare | |
| 1 | $150k to $250k | Required | Required | Required | 8-10 wks | Rare | |
| 1 | No data found | Required | Required | Required | - | None | |
| 2 | $200k to $600k | Required | Required | Required | 7 wks | Rare | |
| 2 | $150k to $200k | Required | Required | Required | 3-6 wks | Rare | |
| 2 | $50k to $100k | Required | Required | Required | - | Rare | |
| 3 | $20k to $40k | Partial | Required | Advised | 1-4 wks | Rare | |
| 3 | Closed to trading since 26 Aug 2026, wind-down | - | - | - | - | Rare | |
| 3 | $20k to $30k | Required | Required | Advised | 1-2 wks | Rare | |
| On-chain | Public Dutch auction | No | No | No | 31 hrs | Epic |
Showing 13 of 21 venues; see every venue with its sources. Fees are reported ranges from public sources, not tariffs published by the exchanges. Two Korean venues carry allegations of intermediary payments that the exchange publicly denies; those records are labelled disputed. Status as of 30 September 2026: BitMart has closed to trading; HTX is under UK sanctions and an EU transaction ban; Binance, Bitget and MEXC do not serve the EU; KuCoin is barred from US customers. See methodology.
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Oracle check
Three sources, one firm, 25x apart
Published audit prices for the same firm. We keep each source as its own record and never average them.
quantumaudit.appquillaudits.comgetrecon.xyz
OpenZeppelin25x
quantumaudit$20k - $100k
quillaudits$25k per engineer-week
getrecon$200k - $500k
Trail of Bits16.7x
quillaudits$30k - $200k
getrecon$200k - $500k
CertiK25x
quantumaudit$8k - $45k
quillaudits$30k - $200k
$0$100k$200k$300k$400k$500k
Incentives
Who pays the people publishing launch costs
Most launch cost guides are written by someone selling the launch. That is a business model, not a scandal. It is still worth knowing whose numbers you are reading.
Listing agencies
Publish a cost page for every exchange. One of the largest states on its own pricing page that it charges projects $0 on most exchanges because it receives a commission from the exchange.
Paid by: the exchanges listing.help pricing →
Market makers
Publish launch budget guides and offer to build your budget for free. The same firms sell the market making and listing support the budget includes.
Paid by: the projects they trade for motiontrade.com services →
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