The Community Token List, powered by Catdets on a sparkling new site:
The Core Working Group, in collaboration with Bored King, has created a new site for projects to apply for this tag. All you have to do is enter your mint address, and all the required information will be pulled from on-chain.
We are excited to work towards a more decentralised, community owned token list. There will be a ton that we have to improve on to get the largest, fastest growing and most dynamic token list working well for all of you – we ask for your patience and please reach out to let us know in our discord’s token-list channel how we can help.
At the start, we require 2 approvals from whitelisted Jupiter catdets to serve as safety guardrails as we iterate and learn from the process. They will form our feedback and iteration council so that we can automate the token verification process further and make this a wider community process while maintaining user safety.
There are some metrics requested to prevent spam, which are the same as what is requested in the strict list process today. For approval, your project needs to:
Have > 10K in daily volume
Have > 100K in market cap
Have unique metadata (Symbol and Name does not duplicate another project on the community list)
Be at least 21 days old. We’ve found that 90% of tokens rug within the first weeks and this requirement dramatically decreases noise and improves list quality. This is not a hard requirement – you will still be able to submit on the site, and catdets may get you on earlier if you are a project well-known by the community. If your project has a meaningful and credible presence, you will get on. If you have a notable pre-launch token, ping us in the token-list channel of discord with your mint address or hit the team up on telegram (benliew, soju, yy, slorg)
We will adjust these requirements and remove some over time, based on the learnings and feedback of the catdet token council.
A quick reminder: Your token does not have to be tagged to be tradable. We pick up all tokens automatically once there is sufficient liquidity and your token will be discoverable. Remind your users to search via your mint address so they can swap safely!
The first requirement is to have >10K in daily volume.
Did you know that around 90% of tokens can achieve this with trading bots?
Yet, for serious tokens, it can often be challenging to meet this requirement through organic growth alone.
All Catdets should be able to vote for approved or not by taking some research to the projects they want to vote.
They more approved a project is becaus many Catdets do reserch of them, they saver a project is.
Yes I wanna add more catdets to the approval process so we can spread the work out. However the larger the council is, the more likely it is for collusion happen. Right now, only 2 approvals are required to approve a token, and we decided to keep it at that for speed.
If any project doesn’t meet the requirements but have a strong community or product, they are welcome to message us in the token list chats in discord, or try again at a later date. Strong projects will always get through. Also, tokens can be traded on Jupiter even without verification – send your community the mint address and keep going.
Back in 2021, minted tokens to the old Solana token repo with a unique symbol (first “meme” symbol). Was this unique symbol carried across to JUP’s community list? If not, would it be fair to assume that my “meme” symbol is the original and another person that created the token later in 2024 and added to JUP’s list is a duplicate so I can still be verified? Token mint and symbol being created in 2021 are verifiable on-chain.
Hi, I noticed that a token with just 5 days of age has already received a vote, while other tokens that meet all the requirements and have been around much longer have not. Could you please help me understand the criteria for voting, and why this newer token was able to receive a vote so quickly?
Catdets usually evaluate a token holistically. On top of metrics, they look at other indicators like meaningful content and product as well as community engagement. Metrics are just one aspect of it, and can be easily gamed as you’ve mentioned. Every token has its own unique characteristics — catdets will vote whenever they feel comfortable that the project will be around in the ecosystem, it’s not a first-in-first-out ticketing system.
Currently a catdet and would be happy to help spread out the workload.
If an experienced catdet showed me the checklist for approval or their decision making for approvals, could approve without slowing down the process.
some work to making the meme space safer 
