- Catapult Trade has appointed Claire “Cookie” Dang as VP of Development and Co-Founder.
- Dang beforehand held development and enterprise improvement roles at Binance, KuCoin, and Crypto.com.
- The enlargement is being funded partly by the KuCoin Ventures funding.
Catapult Trade has appointed Claire “Cookie” Dang as VP of Development and Co-Founder, the most recent in a sequence of strikes which have widened the buying and selling platform’s operations following an funding from KuCoin Ventures.
Dang held development and enterprise improvement roles at Binance, KuCoin, and Crypto.com earlier than becoming a member of and can lead group development and worldwide enlargement.
Her arrival has come alongside a broader push on the corporate’s exterior presence.
Catapult Trade has launched a sponsored podcast, Terminally On-line, that includes Web3 founders and operators, and has assembled a media community from acquired social channels with a mixed attain of over 20 million followers.
The corporate has additionally run buying and selling exercise collaborations with the change Gate.
The enlargement is being funded partly by the KuCoin Ventures funding, disclosed earlier this yr; phrases weren’t made public, and the corporate mentioned its funding spherical stays open, with proceeds additionally directed towards regional enlargement in markets underserved by standard monetary infrastructure.
Catapult Trade opened to the general public in December 2025 after a pre-launch incentives marketing campaign that constructed its first base of merchants and creators.
The platform runs on algorithmically generated worth charts moderately than an orderbook or reside worth feed.
Every session’s full worth path is generated prematurely and dedicated to a cryptographic hash revealed earlier than buying and selling begins, then revealed at settlement, letting customers confirm that the chart was by no means altered mid-session.
The corporate frames the design as a correction to circumstances on memecoin launchpads, the place hidden info has persistently labored towards retail merchants.
Since launch, the platform has recorded greater than $1.5 billion in cumulative buying and selling quantity and over 80,000 month-to-month lively customers, with no paid acquisition behind the figures.
The platform’s chart-generation engine has handed two impartial safety audits, most not too long ago by Halborn and earlier by Hashlock, with the corporate committing to annual critiques.
A factors system has run since launch, fueling hypothesis a few token distribution; the corporate has confirmed in group periods {that a} token is deliberate, however has launched no allocation or vesting particulars.
A second product, Catapult Hyper, is in improvement and would prolong the platform from artificial charts into multichain token launches constructed on LayerZero’s omnichain fungible token commonplace.
The build-out displays the requirements now being utilized to crypto merchandise.
The place the earlier cycle’s flagships rested on token hypothesis, the present cohort, led by names resembling Hyperliquid in perpetuals and Polymarket in prediction markets, is judged on person demand and income.
Catapult Trade is being scaled on the identical phrases, in a class, gamified short-session buying and selling on verifiable charts, that has but to see an incumbent at scale.
