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FatCat Arena is building the entertainment layer of crypto. Perpetuals and prediction markets have proven the demand; nothing has yet turned that demand into a competitive, social experience people stay for. We turn isolated execution into a live, shared, gamified event: the esports arena of trading.

The beta is live on a private testnet with a gated userbase, with MVP launch targeted for Q4 2026. This page summarises the pre-seed pitch: the problem, the product, the market timing, the revenue model, the team, and the ask.

The rise of platforms like Hyperliquid and FOMO shows perpetuals are set to lead the next bull run, but no single platform has locked in the win yet. Every platform has chased infrastructure. None has built what earns loyalty.

The next generation of crypto won't be built by the fastest exchange. The next billion-dollar opportunity is the emotional connection that keeps people coming back long after the trade is over.

We believe the platform that wins this category will be the one that builds on these psychological drivers to create something entirely new, turning trading from a solo transaction into a shared, competitive experience people stay for. We're converging trading, social, and gaming into one category: competitive social trading.

FatCat Arena wraps live markets in three layers of competition: the fight itself, the status that comes with winning it, and the crews that fight together.

Combat

Every trade becomes a match, with a live crowd staked on who wins.

PvP Duels

Pick a coin and a time frame, go SHORT or LONG, and get an instant match or search for a duel in a lobby. Whoever has the highest PnL% at the end of the time frame takes the pot. Get liquidated during a round, and it's an instant knockout.

Spectator Predictions

Every duel opens a live side market for anyone watching. Spectators back a fighter to win, and if their pick takes the duel, they take a share of the pot too, no trading required.

Status

Visibility is a reward, and eventually a risk. A streak becomes a target.

Bounty Hunter

String together a 10-duel win streak, and the platform puts a public bounty on the streak-holder's back. Anyone who ends the streak takes the bounty pot, stacked on top of the duel pot itself.

Trophies & Skulls

Every duel won mints a badge to the winner's public profile; every season won mints an on-chain trophy. Reputation becomes visible, permanent, and something worth defending.

Pack

Guilds turn individual results into shared stakes, fought and felt together.

Guilds

Wins and losses stop being individual. Traders form crews, pool a shared war chest, and battle rival guilds in seasonal wars, turning individual performance into tribal stakes.

Social mechanics drive engagement and retention, but only if the underlying infrastructure is robust. Every duel, guild raid, and spectator market on FatCat runs in the same arena, on the same execution pipeline.

Two of the fastest-growing categories in crypto are converging, and nothing sits at the intersection yet.

• Prediction markets went mainstream in under a year. Combined Kalshi and Polymarket volume grew from under $5B a month in September 2025 to $44.8B in June 2026: more than triple the average monthly handle of every legal US sportsbook combined.
• The real signal is speed, not size. Kalshi and Polymarket now run a $7.8B market in near-term crypto bets alone, contracts settling in 5, 15, or 60 minutes, showing traders don't want to wait 180 days for an outcome anymore.
• Perpetuals already have the audience. ~2M engaged traders on Hyperliquid and FOMO alone, inside a TAM of 100M+ global crypto traders who already live in charts, Telegram, and X every single day.

FatCat sits exactly where these converge: the instant, visible-outcome instinct that is already reshaping prediction markets, running on the trading audience perpetuals already built.

FatCat Arena is the first platform to combine perpetuals, predictions, and competitive social trading into one gamified arena. Hyperliquid built the deepest perpetuals execution in crypto. Polymarket proved the appetite for fast, visible-outcome betting. FOMO built social trading: leaderboards, followers, visible positions. No one has yet bridged all three.

Revenue is driven by trading volume across four streams: spot and perp execution fees at the Hyperliquid builder-code maximums, plus a rake on duel, guild, and prediction pots.

Note: the bolded Annual Trading Volume row is the driver (users x $6,684), not the sum of the percentage-share volume rows above it.

FatCat's multi-layer monetization model enables customer acquisition costs to be recovered quickly, while creating meaningful long-term customer value.

A 9.55x return on acquisition cost, recovered in under 3 months, means every dollar spent on marketing earns itself back almost immediately, and continues generating value for the rest of the user's 24 month+ lifetime. The unit economics work on their own, before any network or retention effects compound them further.

We don't announce competitions, we launch stories. FatCat Arena is built around an evolving universe where every competition becomes another chapter in a larger story. Lore turns users into recurring characters, and creates emotional investment that compounds over time.

That loop doesn't reset. Today's rivalry becomes next month's rematch. This season's guild war becomes next season's grudge. Features can be copied in a weekend. Two years of rivalries, characters, and community history can't.

Operators, growth, creative, and engineering, with prior exits and a decade of web3 go-to-market between them.

Founder & CEO

Jesse Peralta

A proven operational executive with a track record of scaling businesses and managing large teams. Former Regional VP for a Private Equity-backed group, overseeing $100M+ in revenue operations and 400+ employees. Successfully exited his previous venture, Chimcare.

Chief Growth Officer

Timothea Horwell

Nearly a decade of web3 go-to-market experience, with a fintech background predating crypto. Previously CMO of Orion Protocol (now Lumia) from inception to $2B+ FDV. Founder of a decentralized predictions protocol acquired by Vantage, a 5M-user CFD platform.

Chief Creative Officer

Marc Healy

A Creative Director and CCO with over fifteen years across branding, narrative, and creative strategy, spanning web2 and web3. Prior work includes BlackBerry, Atari, Barclays, Grow Studio, Pineapple, and Ringfence. Specializes in turning complex technical products into clear, compelling brand and narrative systems.

CTO

John Israel

Full-stack Web3 architecture spanning high-throughput trading infrastructure and smart-contract security. Fluent in Rust, Solidity, Go, and TypeScript. Leads the core technical architecture, low-latency execution engines, and the staking and fee-distribution contracts powering the MVP.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Srinivas Prabhas L

Full-stack web engineer building and shipping the FatCat product surfaces. Works across React, Next.js, and TypeScript, from the trading dashboard and duel interfaces to the public arena front end. Turns product specs into live, tested features on the beta.

We are raising a $1.5M pre-seed on a post-money SAFE to take the arena from private beta to a public MVP launch in Q4 2026, and to fund the growth engine behind it.

This page is provided for information only. It is not a prospectus, an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security, token, or other instrument, and it does not constitute investment advice. All projections, forecasts, unit economics, and roadmap dates are forward-looking estimates based on current assumptions; actual results will differ. Product features described here, including the native token and its utility, are subject to change at the discretion of the founding team and to audit, mainnet stability, and evolving compliance frameworks. Any investment would be made solely on the basis of definitive transaction documents.