Mechanics

Catapult Turbo & Hyper — Mechanics Explained

No black boxes. Every price, every fee, every settlement rule is documented, audited, and verifiable. Here's exactly how it works.

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Key Takeaways

Quick answers about how Catapult works

The core idea is simple: the chart is committed first, then traders can verify it later.

What is Catapult Turbo?

Catapult Turbo is a trading mode where users go long or short on generated price charts. The chart path is created before the session starts, committed with a hash, and revealed after expiry. That makes the session checkable instead of dependent on hidden market making.

How is fairness verified?

Before trading opens, Catapult commits to the full price sequence with a Keccak-256 hash. After the session ends, the raw data is revealed. Anyone can recompute the hash and see whether the published chart matches the committed chart.

What is Hyper?

Hyper is the launch flow for tokens that can move from temporary trading activity into permanent on-chain liquidity. It uses bonding windows, graduation rules, burned LP, and anti-sniping mechanics so successful launches have a cleaner path after they reach volume thresholds.

Why does this matter for traders?

The point is predictability of rules, not predictability of price. Traders still take market risk, especially with leverage, but they can inspect whether the chart was changed after trading began. That is the practical value of provably fair trading.

Proof and audit links

Chainlink VRF documentationHashlock Catapult auditHalborn Catapult Trade auditCatapult Litepaper

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Mechanics

How Turbo Works

Four steps. Pure math. No humans in the loop between creation and settlement.

01

Token Gets Created

A creator pays a flat listing fee, picks a volatility mode from Slow to Mayhem, and the chart goes live in seconds. No capital required. No pool to seed.

Public tokens appear in the discovery feed. Private tokens run as isolated test environments.

02

GBM Engine Drives the Chart

Every price tick is pre-computed using Geometric Brownian Motion before trading opens. The full series is locked via a Keccak-256 hash commitment on-chain, so it cannot be changed mid-session.

Chainlink VRF seeds the engine with cryptographic randomness. Anyone can verify it after the session.

03

Traders Buy and Sell

Buy and sell like on a spot exchange, but every trade settles against the protocol vault, not other traders. Position size does not create slippage.

1% fee on entry and exit. 4% profit fee on winning positions only. Losing positions pay nothing extra.

04

Session Settles, Fairness Verified

When the session closes, the hidden salt and price array are revealed on-chain. Anyone can reproduce the full series with open-source tools.

If $50K cumulative volume is reached, the token graduates to real on-chain markets on Solana and Meteora.

Price Engine Formula

Pt+1 = Pt · exp (μ − σ²/2) · Δt + σ · √Δt · εt)

μ = 0no directional biasσvolatility modeε ~ N(0,1)seeded by Chainlink VRF

On-Chain Graduation

From Simulation to Real Markets

Turbo charts that generate $50K+ cumulative volume can graduate to permanent on-chain liquidity on Solana. Fully automated.

1

Reach $50K Volume

Token accumulates $50,000 in cumulative trading volume during its Turbo session(s).

2

15-Min Metadata Window

Contract address published immediately. Creator has 15 minutes to update socials, imagery, and metadata.

3

LP Deployed on Meteora

Protocol seeds LP using Turbo-phase fees. 98% to pool, 2% to creator. Anti-snipe protection on first block.

Anti-Sniping Protection

Buyers attempting to enter in the first block of LP deployment face a penalty fee. This protects the manual traders who built the volume that earned graduation — not the bots who arrive milliseconds after launch.

Hyper Launchpad

The Bonding Lifecycle

Hyper uses time-windowed phases to filter for projects with genuine community support. No premature graduation. No fast rug.

Initial Phase
48 hours120 SOL (87.5% threshold)Project graduates if threshold is met
Graduation
Instant (on threshold)5 SOL graduation feeLP minted and immediately burned — permanent
Reactivation
2nd 48-hour window2 SOL fee + increased contributionsSecond chance for projects that missed initial goal
Retirement
After failed reactivationPermanent archive. Campaign cannot be relaunched.

FAQ

Common Questions

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Now You Know How It Works. Time to Trade.

The engine is audited, the math is open, and the fees recirculate to you. What are you waiting for?