Coinbase surprised Crypto Markets on Wednesday by revealing a new issuing Lister Program and, minutes later, BNB added to his listing schedule-unexpected Nikk to the flagship stoken for its biggest rival.
At. 16:12 UTC introduced the Coinbase Markets account on X “The Blue Carpet”, a renewed active-listing experience aimed at making the process more transparent to onchain barley lords.
According to Coinbase’s blog post, the bundle offers a direct line to the Listening team for tailor-made guidance, the ability to request updates to an asset page across Coinbase’s Centralized Exchange and its retail-DEX, referring discounts for services such as Mica Whitepaper support and market producer-matching and limited coinbase Select Core members. Coinbase reiterated that applications and lists are free and that issuers are not required to buy help services.
At. 16.45 Coinbase Markets released that BNB was added to the timetable. As with other trekting objects, the signal reflects intention rather than immediate accessibility. Roadmap inclusion does not ensure a listing; Coinbase may delay or reject assets whose liquidity, technical, compliance or other requirements are not met. Coinbase said trade will be announced separately when there is sufficient market -making support and infrastructure is in place.
The timing is remarkable.
Just nine days earlier, Arca Cio Jeff Dorman published a criticism that argued for Coinbase, “some of the absolute worst assets” while ignoring “the best”, highlighting the tokens issued by rival platforms – including BNB – as examples of high artists that the exchange has historically not offered. He said that an exchange should either indicate far and be neutral or compile the “best assets” as a broker and wrong coin base to fall between these models.
Dorman contrasted further BNB, LEO, TRX and hyp-with reference to revenue-backed repurchase and strong tokenomics with what he called the inflation-roofing and opaque list practice, framing Coinbase’s approach as selective exclusive. Based on this, the addition of BNB to the timetable is similar to a meaningful shift in attitude, even if a listing is not guaranteed.
In addition to its origin in 2017 as a token in the trade fee, BNB now serves as the primary gas asset for BNB chain transactions and is used across this network for payments, stacking, token launches and management suggestions-acts as the chain’s transaction fuel and utility token.
Pairing of the blue carpet rolling with a high-profile roadmap Add-COINBASE aims at the court’s large non-filled assets when liquidity, compliance and technical standards are observed-despite rival attachments.
At the time of writing, BNB was $ 1,164.33, down 4.7% over the last 24 hours.
