Catapult Trade has brought on Claire “Cookie” Dang as VP of Growth and Co-Founder. Dang joins from a string of high-profile crypto exchanges — Binance, KuCoin, and Crypto.com — where she led growth and business development. Her appointment signals a push into new regions, backed partly by KuCoin Ventures, which invested in the platform earlier in 2025 on undisclosed terms.
Who Cookie Dang is
Dang spent years building out user acquisition and partnerships at some of the biggest names in crypto. At Binance and later KuCoin, she focused on expanding into emerging markets — exactly the kind of work Catapult says it needs now. The company describes her mandate as “aggressive regional expansion into underserved markets,” funded in part by the KuCoin Ventures money. The round itself remains open.
How Catapult is growing
Catapult Trade launched to the public in December 2025 after a pre-launch incentives campaign. Since then, the platform says it's cleared over $1.5 billion in cumulative trading volume and claims more than 80,000 monthly active users — with no paid acquisition. That growth is being fed by a few simultaneous moves. The company launched a sponsored podcast called ‘Terminally Online’ that features Web3 founders and operators. It also acquired social media channels with a combined reach of over 20 million followers. And it ran trading activity collaborations with the exchange Gate.
The platform itself is built around algorithmically generated price charts that are verified by a cryptographic hash committed before any trade executes. It passed two independent security audits: one by Halborn and an earlier one by Hashlock, with annual reviews committed.
The token question and what's next
A points system on the platform has fueled speculation about a future token distribution. Catapult has confirmed a token is planned, but it hasn't released any allocation or vesting details. That lack of clarity hasn't stopped users from accumulating points.
Beyond the token, Catapult is working on a second product called Catapult Hyper, which extends the platform into multichain token launches using LayerZero's omnichain fungible token standard. No launch date has been set, but the project is in development.
For now, Dang's hiring is the biggest signal of where Catapult is heading: more users, more regions, and eventually, a token. The details on that token — who gets what and when — remain the big open question.
