United States
cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Pro announced the listing of COMP, the
token powering the decentralized lending protocol Compound.


According
to a Thursday announcement, COMP trading will start on June 23 at 9
a.m. Pacific Time if the liquidity requirements are met. Furthermore,
users will be able to deposit their COMP tokens the day hours before the
trading activity is scheduled to start.


Trading will start progressively



After
a sufficient — and unspecified — supply of COMP tokens make their way
to Coinbase Pro, the exchange will progressively roll out trading
functionality for the tokens. There will be two trading pairs including
the token in question, namely the COMP/Bitcoin (BTC) and COMP/U.S. dollar pairs.


Initially, the pairs will be available in post-only modes. Limit orders will be allowed sometime thereafter. Once the firms
expectations for what constitutes a healthy market are met by the
pairs, full trading with the market, stop and limit orders will start.


Compound
is an Ethereum-based decentralized finance protocol that allows its
users to borrow tokens or deposit them in exchange for interest. The
announcement notes that “COMP is not yet available on Coinbase.com”
which possibly implies that Coinbases popular retail crypto exchange will also list the token.