- Catapult Trade has appointed Claire “Cookie” Dang as Vice President of Growth and Co-Founder.
- Dang previously held growth and business development roles at Binance, KuCoin, and Crypto.com.
- The expansion is partly funded by investment from KuCoin Ventures.
Catapult Trade has appointed Claire “Cookie” Dang as VP of Growth and Co-Founder, the latest in a series of moves that have expanded the trading platform’s operations following an investment from KuCoin Ventures.
Dang held growth and business development roles at Binance, KuCoin, and Crypto.com before joining and will lead community growth and international expansion.
Its arrival has come alongside a broader push for the company’s overseas presence.
Catapult Trade has launched a sponsored podcast, Terminally Online, featuring Web3 founders and operators, and has assembled a media network of earned social channels with a combined reach of over 20 million followers.
The company also managed business collaborations with the stock exchange portal.
The expansion is partly funded by Investing in KuCoin projectswas unveiled earlier this year; Terms were not announced, and the company said its funding round remains open, with proceeds also directed toward regional expansion in markets that suffer from a lack of traditional financial infrastructure.
Catapult trade It opened to the public in December 2025 after a pre-launch incentive campaign that built its initial base of traders and creators.
The platform works on algorithmically generated price charts rather than an order book or live price feed.
The full price path for each session is generated in advance and is committed through a cryptographic hash that is published before trading begins, and then revealed at settlement, allowing users to verify that the chart never changed mid-session.
The company frames the design as a correction to conditions found on memecoin launchpads, where hidden information has consistently worked against retail traders.
Since its launch, the platform has recorded over $1.5 billion in cumulative trading volume and over 80,000 monthly active users, with no paid acquisitions behind these numbers.
The platform’s chart generation engine has passed two independent security audits, most recently by Halborn And before that HashlockThe company is committed to annual reviews.
The points system has been in operation since its launch, sparking speculation about the distribution of tokens; The company confirmed in community sessions that the token was planned, but did not release any details on allocation or vesting.
The second product, Catapult Hyper, is in development and will expand the platform from synthetic charts to multi-chain token launches built on LayerZero’s fungible token standard.
The construction reflects the standards now applied to crypto products.
Where previous cycle majors were based on token speculation, the current group, led by names like Hyperliquid in perpetuity and Polymarket in prediction markets, is judged on user demand and revenue.
Catapult Trade expands on the same terms, into the category of short, stimulating trading on verifiable charts, which has not yet seen a widespread occupant.
