- Catapult Trade has appointed Claire “Cookie” Dang as VP of Growth and Co-Founder.
- Dang previously held growth and business development roles at Binance, KuCoin, and Crypto.com.
- The expansion is being funded in part by the KuCoin Ventures investment.
Catapult Trade has named Claire “Cookie” Dang as VP of Growth and Co-Founder, a strategic hire that arrives as the trading platform accelerates its market expansion following an investment from KuCoin Ventures.
Dang joins Catapult Trade after roles in growth and business development at Binance, KuCoin and Crypto.com. She will lead community growth and international expansion efforts, focusing on user acquisition, partnerships and regional market entry.
Her appointment coincides with a broader push to raise the company’s external profile. Catapult Trade recently launched a sponsored podcast, Terminally Online, which highlights Web3 founders and operators, and consolidated a media network from acquired social channels that together reach a large audience.
The company has also collaborated on trading activity with the exchange Gate as part of its effort to increase engagement and visibility.
The expansion is being financed in part by the KuCoin Ventures investment disclosed earlier this year; specific terms were not revealed. Catapult Trade says its funding round remains open, with proceeds earmarked for regional expansion in markets underserved by conventional financial infrastructure.
Catapult Trade opened to the public in December 2025 after a pre-launch incentives campaign that assembled its initial community of traders and creators. The platform differentiates itself by using algorithmically generated price charts instead of a traditional order book or live price feed.
Each session’s complete price path is generated in advance and committed to a cryptographic hash published before trading begins. The path is then revealed at settlement, allowing users to verify that the chart was not altered during the session. The company positions this approach as a correction to opaque practices found on some memecoin launchpads, where hidden information has often disadvantaged retail traders.
Since launch, Catapult Trade reports more than $1.5 billion in cumulative trading volume and over 80,000 monthly active users, achieved without paid user acquisition according to the company.
The platform’s chart-generation engine has undergone independent security reviews, most recently by Halborn and previously by Hashlock. Catapult Trade has committed to annual audits to maintain security standards.
A points system has operated since launch, prompting speculation about a possible token distribution. The company has confirmed a token is planned in community sessions but has not published allocation or vesting details.
Catapult Trade is also developing a second product, Catapult Hyper, which would extend the offering from synthetic charts to multichain token launches built on LayerZero’s omnichain fungible token standard. This product aims to expand the platform’s utility across multiple chains.
The company’s roadmap reflects a broader shift in crypto product expectations: rather than relying primarily on token speculation, current successful projects are evaluated on user demand and revenue generation. Names such as Hyperliquid in perpetuals and Polymarket in prediction markets exemplify that trend.
Catapult Trade is scaling on those same principles, focusing on gamified short-session trading on verifiable charts—a category that has yet to produce a dominant incumbent at scale.