Crypto loves the word “fair.”
Fair distribution. Fair pricing. Fair access.
But let’s be honest—most token launches are anything but.
Enter Catapult, a launchpad designed to eliminate early sell pressure, slash launch costs, and automate liquidity in a way that aligns creators, traders, and the protocol itself. It replaces chaotic day-zero market mechanics with something far more deliberate: algorithmic price action, volume-based graduation, and built-in revenue sharing.
This is not another “launch and pray” platform.
It’s a structured proving ground.
The Core Thesis: Volume Before Liquidity
Traditional launches start with liquidity.
That’s the mistake.
Liquidity pools on day zero invite:
Snipers
MEV extraction
Presale dumps
Rugpull vectors
High overhead costs
Catapult flips the sequence:
Volume first. Liquidity later.
Instead of throwing a token into an on-chain pool and hoping for the best, Catapult begins in a simulated high-fidelity environment called Turbo, where tokens can build mindshare and trading volume without ever touching a liquidity pool.
Only when a token proves demand does it graduate into a real, on-chain market via Hyper.
This single design decision changes everything.
Catapult Turbo: The Sandbox That Solves Day Zero
Catapult Turbo is a gamified trading environment that replaces traditional on-chain mechanics with a deterministic mathematical price engine.
There is:
No order book
No initial LP
No slippage
No liquidity to drain
Instead, Turbo streams hyper-volatile, realistic price action generated by a mathematical engine. Traders buy and sell exactly like on a spot exchange—but execution is instant and slippage-free.
Every trade settles directly against the protocol vault.
Why This Matters
Because price movement is decoupled from liquidity:
Creators simply choose a volatility tier, pay a flat fee, and let the session run.
The Turbo Mechanic: Controlled Chaos
Each Turbo session runs inside a fixed time window.
When creating a token, a creator selects a volatility mode that defines:
TypeSpeed MultiplierLifetimeDaily SigmaSlow6x4 hours0.5Fast24x1 hour1.0Flash96x15 min1.25Crack480x3 min1.5Mayhem1440x1 min1.25
All tiers use a daily drift of zero, ensuring a mathematically neutral starting point.
The result?
Pure volatility. No bias.
Turbo is not gambling disguised as trading. It’s a structured, deterministic price evolution with unpredictable outcomes—verified through cryptographic commitment.
Path Generation & Commitment: Provably Untampered Markets
When a creator launches a Turbo session:
The engine generates a random seed.
It pre-calculates the entire price path.
A secret salt is created.
The seed, salt, and tick parameters are hashed.
The hash is published before trading begins.
This hash becomes an immutable anchor.
As the session unfolds, ticks stream to the UI.
The underlying seed and salt remain hidden.
When the session expires, the engine reveals everything.
Anyone can recompute the hash.
If it matches, the chart wasn’t altered.
The path is deterministic—but unknowable until complete.
Even the development team cannot alter it.
That’s not “trust us.”
That’s mathematical finality.
Public vs Private Tokens: Controlled Attention
Catapult separates tokens into two categories:
Public Tokens
Indexed in the discovery feed
Generate a 0.5% fee on all trade volume
Fee paid directly to the creator
Subject to a global cap on concurrent sessions
This cap prevents fragmentation and keeps the trader’s attention dense.
Private Tokens
It’s a clever balance between open competition and personal experimentation.
From Simulation to Reality
Turbo is not the endgame.
It’s the proving ground.
A Turbo token must hit a predefined volume milestone to graduate.
When that threshold is reached, the token transitions into the on-chain ecosystem.
And here’s the key difference:
There are no presale allocations.
No early insiders waiting to dump.
No liquidity seeded by a fragile team wallet.
Instead:
The entire supply is minted directly into the pool.
Liquidity is sourced from the volume generated during Turbo.
The community that built the volume becomes the on-chain market.
Graduation is handled through a time-windowed launch mechanic that prevents sniping and ensures equitable access.
This is what automated fair launches actually look like.
Catapult Hyper: Production-Grade Infrastructure
Once graduated, tokens move into Catapult Hyper, the on-chain infrastructure layer built on:
Hyperliquid provides the L1 trading environment.
LayerZero enables seamless multichain interoperability.
Together, they eliminate liquidity fragmentation.
Multichain Without the Mess
Tokens launched via Hyper are deployed as OFTs (Omnichain Fungible Tokens).
This means:
Unified supply across chains
No risky third-party bridges
No wrapped fragmentation
Seamless multichain liquidity
The Hyper terminal becomes a discovery engine—connecting creators, traders, and the broader ecosystem in a compounding value loop.
The Bonding Mechanism: Liquidity That Scales With Conviction
Hyper replaces static fundraising with a dynamic liquidity bootstrap model.
Capital requirements scale with market cap.
As mindshare grows, liquidity requirements grow.
Every launch follows strict 48-hour windows:
Initial Phase
48 hours to hit the primary goal.
Reactivation
If missed, a second round opens with increased contribution requirements.
Retirement
Failure in the second round permanently ends the campaign.
No zombie tokens.
No endless relaunches.
Only velocity survives.
Automated Liquidity & Real Yield
Once bonding completes:
Liquidity pools initialise automatically.
LP deployment is non-custodial.
No manual management required.
Rewards are funded by actual platform activity—trading volume and engagement—rather than inflationary emissions.
Participants earn a real yield derived from protocol usage.
That’s a subtle but important difference.
Emission-based systems inflate.
Activity-based systems compound
Revenue Sharing: Incentives Aligned by Design
Catapult does not rely on extractive fee models.
Instead, it distributes value across four roles:
Traders
Creators
Referrers
Mindshare contributors
Rewards are epoch-based:
The Mindshare system tracks social visibility using an exponential decay model:
user_score += twitter_scout_score × k^(n−1)
Where k = 0.8
Recent activity matters more.
Sustained contribution wins.
And only the Top 100 qualify for mindshare rewards.
It’s competitive.
It’s measurable.
It’s performance-driven.
The Bigger Picture
Catapult is transitioning from a Solana-centric origin into a full multichain discovery terminal. A lightweight Hyper terminal is already live, enabling trading of graduated tokens ahead of the full LayerZero-native launchpad.
The architecture reflects a clear philosophy:
Simulate before you tokenise.
Prove demand before you deploy liquidity.
Align incentives before you scale.
Most launchpads optimise for speed.
Catapult optimises for survivability.
And in crypto, survivability is alpha.
In Summary
The industry doesn’t need another place to launch tokens.
It needs infrastructure that filters noise, protects participants, and rewards real engagement.
Catapult’s Turbo-to-Hyper pipeline does exactly that.
Volume becomes proof.
Graduation becomes merit.
Liquidity becomes earned.
That’s not hype.
That’s architecture.
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