Listing Review Process FAQ — What Happens After You Apply

What do the application statuses mean?

CoinDock applications carry one of four:

Status	Meaning
`submitted`	Received and queued. Nothing assessed yet.
`review`	Under active assessment.
`approved`	Verification complete; the listing may proceed.
`rejected`	Not proceeding.

Every status change is recorded with its origin and destination, so an application has an auditable history rather than just a current state.

What does a reviewer actually check, and in what order?

Cheapest checks first, because failing an early one invalidates everything after it:

Identity reconciliation — does the contract address resolve to a contract on the stated chain with the stated name and ticker, and is source verified?
Documentary consistency — do the whitepaper, tokenomics, and application agree with each other and the chain?
Contract examination — what privileged functions exist and who controls them?
Supply and unlock analysis — what circulates, what is locked, when does it unlock?
Legal and jurisdiction assessment.
Liquidity readiness.

Why has my application not moved?

Almost always because a reviewer looked, found a question, and is waiting for you — not because nobody has looked.

In rough order of frequency, applications stall on: documents that contradict each other or the chain; an unreachable applicant; an audit covering a different contract version than the deployed one; a vesting schedule written as prose rather than dates and amounts; and no concrete liquidity answer.

Note that queue position is absent from that list.

How should I respond when a reviewer asks a question?

Quickly and completely. Answer the question asked, attach whatever evidence supports the answer, and flag anything adjacent that the question suggests they may ask next.

Response speed is the single largest factor you control over total review duration.

Is review adversarial?

No. A reviewer asking about a mint function is doing the work that makes the listing worth having — the same scrutiny protects your token from being impersonated and your holders from an undisclosed surprise.

Projects that treat questions as obstacles tend to answer defensively and slowly, which is the behaviour that actually delays applications.

Can I announce my listing date during review?

Not before approval. Announcing applies public pressure to a process that has not concluded, and the announcement itself sometimes becomes a reason for caution — a project publicly committed to a date has an incentive to rush answers.

Prepare communications during review. Publish after approval.

What are the grounds for rejection?

Commonly:

The token could not be verified as the token described.
Undisclosed privileged functions were found during review.
Legal exposure the exchange is not positioned to take on.
No credible plan for liquidity.

Several of these are correctable. A rejection for missing evidence is a different thing from one for a legal restriction, and it is worth establishing which you received before deciding what to do next. See rejection and appeals FAQ.

Does a rejection mean my project is bad?

No. Rejection is a decision about evidence and fit — whether this token, on this chain, with this documentation, can be listed on this venue at this time. It is not an assessment of a project's merit or prospects.

How can I make review go faster?

Apply one test before submitting: could a stranger verify every claim in this application using only the chain and the attached documents, without asking me anything?

Concretely, that means confirming name, symbol, decimals and total supply on a block explorer against your documents; verifying your source code; writing vesting as a table of dates and amounts; naming your auditor and attaching the report for the deployed version; writing one paragraph on who will quote the market; and supplying a contact that is monitored daily.

Will you tell me what is wrong, or just reject the application?

Reviewers generally ask before concluding — that is what the round trips are. An application rejected without any exchange of questions has usually failed an early, decisive check such as identity reconciliation, where there is nothing to clarify.

Listing Review Process — Frequently Asked Questions