Catapult Trade, a trading platform that runs on algorithmically generated price charts rather than live markets, has received an investment from KuCoin Ventures. The company did not disclose the size of the position and said its funding round remains open, with part of the proceeds going toward expansion into regions underserved by conventional financial infrastructure.
The platform’s core mechanic departs from how most trading venues work. There is no orderbook and no live price feed. Instead, each trading session runs on a chart whose entire price path is generated in advance, locked behind a cryptographic hash that is published before trading starts and revealed once the session settles. Anyone can check the revealed path against the original hash to confirm the chart was never altered. The company describes this as a fix for the conditions on memecoin launchpads, where hidden information routinely works against ordinary traders.
Catapult Trade opened to the public in December 2025, following a pre-launch incentives campaign that brought in its first traders and creators. It has since recorded more than $1.5 billion in cumulative trading volume and over 80,000 monthly active users, none of it driven by paid acquisition. A points system has run alongside the platform since launch, and the company has said in community sessions that a token distribution is planned, though no details on allocation or vesting have been released.
Trust in the chart mechanism has been a recurring focus. The platform’s chart-generation engine has now passed two independent security audits, the most recent by Halborn and an earlier one by Hashlock, and the company says it will commission audits annually.
The KuCoin Ventures investment has been followed by a round of hiring and outreach. Claire “Cookie” Dang, who held growth and business development roles at Binance, KuCoin and Crypto.com, has joined as VP of Growth and Co-Founder, overseeing community growth and international expansion. The company has launched a sponsored podcast, Terminally Online, featuring Web3 founders and operators, and has built up a media network of acquired social channels with a combined reach above 20 million. It has also run trading-activity collaborations with the exchange Gate.
Looking further out, the company is developing a second product, Catapult Hyper, that would move beyond synthetic charts into multichain token launches built on LayerZero’s omnichain fungible token standard. It is positioned as an addition to the existing platform rather than a replacement.
The investment lands in a stretch where crypto’s strongest products, from Hyperliquid in perpetuals to Polymarket in prediction markets, have been the ones drawing real users rather than token speculators, and Catapult Trade is being built and measured on the same terms.
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