Catapult trade Closed an investment from KuCoin Ventures as part of its ongoing fundraising round. The terms were not disclosed. Additional deals are in the pipeline, and the round is expected to remain open as the platform aims to expand into new regional markets.
The investment follows early commercial traction. Since its full launch in December 2025, the platform has recorded $1.1 billion in cumulative trading volume and 77,000 monthly active users – numbers that arrive at a time when retail interest is moving away from traditional DEXs and launchpads, and into a category where Catapult has no widely established competitor.
How the platform works
Catapult calls its format “iTrading” – a short trading session built on design conventions for high-engagement consumer apps. Users can publish their own algorithmic codes, borrowing superficial knowledge to format the memecoin operating board, while the core mechanisms are replaced by an artificial rule-based environment.
Price action is generated by Geometric Brownian Motion, a standard quantitative finance model, with configurable volatility parameters. The environment operates independently of direct order books and external market conditions. Results can be verified with encryption. Hashlocka Web3 security firm, completed an audit earlier this year.
Token operators on the platform profit from trading volume and have no mechanism to influence the price movement of the chart. The structure was designed in response to an ongoing problem with existing launch platforms, where liquidity extraction and internal activity have led to consistently poor results for retail traders.
Growth and support
The platform drew significant interest in the There is currently a points system on the platform, which the company describes as a gamification and retention layer funded with a portion of the platform’s revenue — distinct, it says, from the liquidity mining programs that defined Web3’s previous growth cycles.
Catapult has drawn a comparison with Polymarket in how it frames its model: a consumer crypto product where organic demand drives retention and revenue rather than speculative incentive structures.
Token
The fundraising tour has renewed speculation about the symbolic airdrop. The company has indicated plans for the token on social media but has not made any official announcement.
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