Catapult Trade has doubled down on growth with a high-profile hire and a broad marketing push after securing investment from KuCoin Ventures. The trading platform has named Claire “Cookie” Dang — a growth and BD veteran from Binance, KuCoin and Crypto.com — as VP of Growth and Co‑Founder. Dang will lead community expansion and international scaling as Catapult ramps up its external presence.
The appointment accompanies several outward-facing moves. Catapult launched a sponsored podcast, Terminally Online, that spotlights Web3 founders and operators, and it has stitched together a media network from acquired social channels with a combined reach of more than 20 million followers. The company has also run collaborative trading events with exchange Gate. Those efforts are being funded in part by the KuCoin Ventures investment disclosed earlier this year; terms were not made public and the funding round remains open. Catapult says proceeds will also support regional expansion into markets underserved by conventional financial infrastructure.
Product and tech
Catapult opened to the public in December 2025 after a pre‑launch incentives campaign that seeded its initial community of traders and creators. It does not use an orderbook or live price feed. Instead, each trading session uses an algorithmically generated price chart: the full price path is created in advance, committed to a cryptographic hash that is published before trading begins, and then revealed at settlement so users can verify the chart was never altered mid‑session. Catapult positions this design as a corrective to launchpad and memecoin dynamics where hidden information has historically disadvantaged retail traders.
Metrics and security
Since launch, Catapult reports more than $1.5 billion in cumulative trading volume and over 80,000 monthly active users — growth it says has been achieved with no paid user acquisition. Its chart‑generation engine has undergone two independent security audits, most recently by Halborn and earlier by Hashlock, and the company has committed to annual reviews.
Token and roadmap
A points system has been live since day one and has fueled community speculation about a native token. Catapult has confirmed in community sessions that a token is planned but has not released any allocation or vesting details. A second product, Catapult Hyper, is in development and would move the platform from synthetic, verifiable charts into multichain token launches built on LayerZero’s omnichain fungible token (OFT) standard.
Market positioning
Catapult is building in a niche — gamified, short‑session trading on verifiable charts — that currently lacks a dominant incumbent at scale. The company’s approach reflects how the market’s emphasis has shifted since the last cycle: rather than leaning primarily on token speculation, newer products are being judged increasingly on demonstrable user demand and revenue, highlighted by contemporaries such as Hyperliquid (perpetuals) and Polymarket (prediction markets).
Why it matters
With a seasoned growth lead, fresh capital from a major crypto investor, expanding media reach and verifiable engineering, Catapult Trade is positioning itself to scale internationally and to push its novel trading model into new markets and product forms. The next milestones to watch are further fundraising details, token economics disclosures, and the public launch of Catapult Hyper.
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