How to get a token listed on CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap
The Editor·8 min read·Updated 31 Aug 2026
How to get listed on CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap: automatic DEX data versus a curated profile, what each form asks for, and what gets a request rejected.
Two different things get called a listing. Your token's DEX trading data appears automatically on GeckoTerminal and CoinMarketCap's DEX view once a pool exists, with no application. A curated profile on coingecko.com or coinmarketcap.com is a separate, discretionary editorial decision made from a submitted request. Only the second one requires you to apply, and nobody can promise you it.
Getting that distinction right saves a lot of wasted effort. Most launchers who say they are "not listed on CoinGecko" are already carrying live price data on CoinGecko's own DEX product and are actually asking about the curated page.
The two listings, and which one you want
Automatic DEX data. CoinGecko operates GeckoTerminal, which indexes on-chain pools across a long list of chains and surfaces price, volume and liquidity per pair without any submission. CoinMarketCap runs an equivalent DEX-side view. If your token has a live pool on a supported chain, this happens on its own, usually quickly, and it is free. It gives you a chartable, linkable price — and an API endpoint, which is often the practically useful part.
A curated profile. This is the page on the main site with your logo, description, links, category tags, supply figures and a place in the ranked lists. It is created by the aggregator's listing team from a request you submit. It is discretionary, it is not guaranteed, and the criteria are applied by humans.
The curated profile is what carries weight with buyers, exchanges and integrators, and it is the harder one to get. It is also the one where the marginal value is easiest to overstate — see the honest-limits section below.
Note that memecoins do get curated profiles at scale. CoinGecko's "Robinhood Chain Meme" category listed 199 coins with $520.3M combined market cap and $96.8M of 24-hour volume as of 31 August 2026. This is not a category that gets refused on principle.
What CoinGecko asks for
CoinGecko takes listing requests through a form on its own site, and the current version of that form is the only authoritative list of fields — it changes. As of 31 August 2026 the substance of what it asks for is:
- The contract address and chain, and the exchange or DEX pair where the token trades. A token with no live market does not get listed.
- Token identity: name, symbol, decimals, and a logo meeting their image spec.
- Supply figures: total supply, and circulating supply with an explanation of how it is calculated. This is the field most often filled in badly. If you do not understand the difference, read market cap vs fully diluted valuation for memecoins before you submit, because an unsupportable circulating-supply claim is a clean reason to refuse.
- Links: website, block explorer, X, Telegram, Discord, documentation. They check that these resolve and are populated.
- A description of what the token is. Written plainly. Not a pitch.
You can see the current form and the published criteria on CoinGecko directly. Submit once. Duplicate submissions are counterproductive.
What CoinMarketCap asks for
CoinMarketCap runs its own request process with a broadly similar shape: contract address and chain, market data source, supply information with a circulating-supply methodology, logo, links and description. In practice CoinMarketCap has historically leaned harder on demonstrable trading activity and on the token having a market on a source it already indexes, and it asks for supporting evidence for supply claims rather than taking them at face value.
Apply to both. They are independent teams with independent criteria, and an outcome at one tells you nothing about the other.
What gets a request rejected
The published criteria are broad, but the practical refusal reasons are narrow and consistent:
| Reason | What it looks like |
|---|---|
| No real market | Pool exists, near-zero volume, liquidity too thin to price |
| Unverifiable supply | Circulating supply stated with no methodology, or contradicted on-chain |
| Unverified contract | Source not published on the chain's explorer |
| Ticker collision | Symbol already carried by an established token — a live problem, as with the Robinhood Chain and Base tokens both trading as Degen |
| Broken or empty links | Website 404s, Telegram created that week, X account with no history |
| Copy-paste description | Text lifted from another project, or pure marketing with no factual content |
| Duplicate or spam submissions | Same token submitted repeatedly across accounts |
Two of these are worth pre-empting before you ever submit. Verify your contract on the explorer — the steps are in how to verify a token contract yourself. And check your ticker is not already taken by something larger; ticker collisions are also how buyers get routed to the wrong contract, which is the buyer-side version of the same problem covered in fake tokens and ticker impersonation.
Timelines: what nobody can honestly promise
Neither aggregator publishes a service-level commitment on review times, and neither guarantees a response at all. Requests are queued, volume is high, and a request that goes unanswered is a normal outcome rather than an error. Any figure you have seen quoted — a number of days, a "typical" turnaround, a success rate — is not sourced from the aggregators.
We are not going to invent one. Plan on the assumption that the answer may be no, or nothing, and that your token's discoverability in the meantime rests on the surfaces that do not require approval: your DEX pool's automatic data, your screener profile, and aggregator feeds like the Meme Central feed, which indexes launches across venues without anyone approving them.
Anyone offering to guarantee a CoinGecko or CoinMarketCap listing for a fee is selling something they cannot deliver. That is a straightforward statement about how discretionary editorial review works, and it applies regardless of who is making the offer.
What a listing is actually worth
A curated profile does three concrete things: it makes the token findable by people who search aggregators rather than screeners, it feeds price into a long tail of portfolio trackers and integrations that pull from those APIs, and it is a checkbox some centralised venues and partners look for.
What it does not do is validate anything. Listing criteria test whether a token has a real market and consistent metadata. They do not test whether liquidity is locked, whether holdings are concentrated in a handful of wallets, or whether the deployer is selling. A listed token can rug the same afternoon, and listed tokens have. The checks that matter to a buyer are on-chain, not editorial.
What this doesn't tell you
We have not printed review timelines, approval rates, or any fee, because neither CoinGecko nor CoinMarketCap publishes figures we could verify as of 31 August 2026. Nor have we reproduced their full criteria lists, which both revise: take those from the live forms.
Prepare the submissions before you deploy rather than after — that is step 8 of the token launch checklist — and get the screener side done in parallel, since a DexScreener token profile is faster to obtain and is where most memecoin buyers actually look. On which surface does what, best memecoin screeners and trackers sets out the differences.
Frequently asked questions
Is getting listed on CoinGecko free?
The listing request itself is submitted through a free public form, and automatic DEX-side price data on GeckoTerminal costs nothing. CoinGecko has offered paid promotional and advertising products separately, which are marketing placements rather than listings. Anyone charging you a fee to secure a listing is not able to guarantee the outcome.
How long does a CoinGecko or CoinMarketCap listing take?
Neither publishes a turnaround commitment and neither guarantees a reply. Requests are queued and reviewed at the team's discretion, and no response is a common outcome. Any specific number of days quoted elsewhere is not sourced from the aggregators, so we are not repeating one here.
Can a memecoin get listed on CoinGecko?
Yes. Memecoins are listed routinely — CoinGecko's Robinhood Chain Meme category alone held 199 coins with $520.3M combined market cap as of 31 August 2026. The category is not disqualifying. Thin liquidity, unverifiable circulating supply and broken links are what get requests refused.
What is the difference between GeckoTerminal and CoinGecko?
GeckoTerminal is CoinGecko's on-chain DEX product: it indexes liquidity pools automatically and needs no application. coingecko.com is the curated aggregator, where a profile is created by a listing team from a submitted request. Your token can be fully visible on the first while having no page on the second.
Do I need a listing before I launch?
No, and you cannot have one — both aggregators want a live market before they will consider a request. What you can do before launching is prepare the submission: logo to spec, supply methodology written down, links live and populated, contract ready to verify. That turns a day-five scramble into a day-one submission.
Get the on-chain facts right before you ask anyone to list you
Every refusal reason above is about verifiability, and most of them are set at deployment. MintPlus — built by TrustSwap, the company behind Meme Central — creates fixed-supply tokens with liquidity locked at creation on Ethereum, Robinhood Chain, Polygon, Base and BNB, which makes the supply question answerable with a contract address instead of a claim. It will not get you listed, it will not do the submissions, and no tool can make an editorial team say yes.
Nothing here is financial, legal or tax advice. Memecoins are extremely high-risk: most lose most of their value, and the majority of tokens launched never reach a decentralised exchange at all. Never spend money you cannot afford to lose entirely. Meme Central does not recommend any specific token. Data described as Meme Central's own reflects tokens indexed by Meme Central and is not whole-market data.
