Catapult Trade has launched a new round of expansion following its investment from KuCoin Ventures. The company disclosed that Claire “Cookie” Dang, who previously led growth and business development at Binance, KuCoin, and Crypto.com, has joined the company as Vice President of Growth and co-founder, responsible for community growth and international expansion.

Expanding the team after financing

The company stated that this expansion was partly supported by a previously disclosed investment from KuCoin Ventures, but the terms of the deal have not yet been disclosed. Catapult Trade also indicated that the funding round is not yet closed, and subsequent funds will be used to enter regional markets underserved by traditional financial services.

In addition to personnel adjustments, the platform has also been strengthening external cooperation recently, launching a trading activity collaboration with the exchange Gate to improve user reach and platform activity.

Cumulative trading volume exceeds US$1.5 billion

Catapult Trade opened to the public in December 2025. Prior to its official launch, the platform accumulated its first batch of traders and content creators through pre-launch incentive programs.

The company disclosed that since its launch, the platform has accumulated over $1.5 billion in transaction volume and has over 80,000 monthly active users. The article states that these figures were not driven by paid user acquisition.

The new product is still under development

Catapult Trade's trading model is not based on traditional order books or real-time price streams, but rather on algorithmically generated price charts. The complete price path for each trading session is pre-generated before the start of the trade and written to a corresponding cryptographic hash; the original path is then made public at settlement, allowing users to verify whether the chart has been modified during the trade.

The company stated that the chart generation engine has completed two independent security audits, the most recent one by Halborn and the earlier one by Hashlock, and plans to conduct annual reviews.

The platform has been operating a points system since its launch, leading to ongoing speculation within the community about its token distribution arrangements. The company confirmed in community discussions that it will launch tokens in the future, but has not yet announced details such as the allocation ratio and unlocking schedule.

Meanwhile, Catapult Trade is also developing a second product, Catapult Hyper. This product plans to expand from the current synthetic chart trading to multi-chain token issuance, and will adopt LayerZero's full-chain fungible token standard.

Additional information:The original article also mentioned that Catapult Trade positions itself in the "short-term trading with verifiable charts" sector and compares the current competitive landscape with the development paths of projects such as the perpetual contract platform Hyperliquid and the prediction market platform Polymarket.