About
Cata Labs was a New York-based team building Catalyst, an open-source permissionless cross-chain liquidity protocol for modular blockchains that used a 'unit of liquidity' abstraction to enable atomic swaps of native assets across rollups and app-chains. The Catalyst AMM wound down and Cata Labs was acquired by LI.FI in February 2025.
Key products
Chains
- Founded
- 2022
- HQ
- New York, USA
- Stage
- Acquired
- Funding
- $4.2M seed led by Spartan Group (2023); acquired by LI.FI (2025)
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