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# Compound Market Listing Framework

Consideration points:
- Token Etherscan link
  - Contract code verified and open-source?
- Team
  - Who?
  - Experience in their respective field
- Whitepaper
- Audits
- Governance structure
  - Multi-sig, snapshot, or fully on-chain governance?
- Number of contract transactions
- Age of the token
- Social channels
- Pausability
- Mintability
- Upgradeability
  - Who is authorized to make an upgrade?
  - Can an upgrade happen instantaneously or is there a time-lock delay?
  - Which components can be upgraded?
  - Under what circumstances can an unauthorized upgrade occur?
- Restrictions on transfers
- Token supply
  - Fixed or variable?
  - Total supply
  - Circulating supply
  - Market cap
  - Fully diluted market cap
- Token distribution
  - Number of unique holders
  - Addresses holding >= 10% of supply
  - Gini coefficient
- Market liquidity:
  - CEX liquidity
  - DEX liquidity
- Price volatility
- Supporting oracles
- Underlying assets
  - How quickly can the amount or value of any underlying assets change?
  - Collateral factors, if any?
- Insurance [for each insuring entity]
  - What’s covered:
  - Amount staked ($):
  - Capacity ($):
  - Max individual coverage length:
  - Cost:

Proposal factors:
- Collateral factor (0 to start)
- Borrow cap
- Interest rate model
- Reserve factor (typically 25%)

Related resources:
- [Compound: Format process for new collateral assets](https://www.comp.xyz/t/formal-process-for-new-collateral-assets/2124)
- [Compound: Add Market: LINK](https://www.comp.xyz/t/add-market-link/1516/50)
- [Compound: Add Markets: MKR, AAVE, SUSHI, YFI](https://www.comp.xyz/t/add-markets-mkr-aave-sushi-yfi/1977)
- [Aave: ARC: Add support for stETH (Lido)](https://governance.aave.com/t/arc-add-support-for-steth-lido/5793)
